Equipment
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (January 12 – January 18). GE Oil & Gas and McDermott International have launched io oil & gas consulting, a new independent venture to transform the development of front-end solutions for offshore fie
Highlights of the Week – Readers’ Choice
DEME: Dredging Simulator, New Office Building The Flemish Minister-President Geert Bourgeois has laid the foundation stone of the new DEME office building in Zwijndrecht. He also put into operation the brand-new high-tech dredging simulator. VIDEO: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mud Dredger The biggest scien
Alcatel-Lucent to Boost ACE Submarine Link
Alcatel-Lucent and the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) consortium have successfully completed a field trial on the existing ACE system, which connects France to the west coast of Africa, based on 300 gigabit-per-second (Gbit/s) and 400 Gbit/s technology. They achieved a breakthrough transmission of 12.
Schlumberger Cuts 9000 Jobs
Oilfield services major, Schlumberger, has decided to reduce its overall headcount, in response to lower commodity pricing and anticipated lower exploration and production spending in 2015. The company, which employs approximately 120,000 people in more than 85 countries, recorded a $296 million cha
SST Delivers Tool Detection Alarm for Safer Well Intervention
Severn Subsea Technologies (SST) has developed Zone 0 rated, tool detection sensor technology to reduce the risk of damage to the riser assembly during drilling and intervention operations, as the tool string is recovered to the surface. The Tool Detection Alarm (TDA) offers a safer method of locati
Welltec’s Annular Barrier runs as primary for Statoil
Welltec®, a Danish based oil and gas service provider, has announced that its Welltec® Annular Barrier has been successfully run as a standalone, primary well barrier element for Statoil in the North Sea. The company says that the 9 5/8″ ISO14310 V0 WAB® was deployed, expanded and subsequently verif
DEME: Dredging Simulator, New Office Building
Today, the Flemish Minister-President Geert Bourgeois laid the foundation stone of the new DEME office building in Zwijndrecht. He also put into operation the brand-new high-tech dredging simulator. The new office building is going to be built on the premises of DEME’s head office, located on Scheld
OSM Offshore to operate Mariner FSU
OSM Offshore Aberdeen Limited, a subsidiary of OSM Offshore AS and a member of OSM Maritime Group, has on January 9, 2015 agreed to enter into a long-term contract with energy company Statoil UK Limited to operate the Mariner Floating Storage Unit (FSU). The Mariner oil field lies within part-block
Picture of the Day: Boskalis’ Newest Dredger
The Freeway, Boskalis’ newest hopper dredger with a capacity of 4,500 m³, is about to be presented to the fleet in a naming ceremony set for Friday 16 January. “The Freeway sailed past our offices in Papendrecht towards the Ketelhaven and off course all the colleagues waved to the crew,” announced B
GTT tech ordered for Teekay’s LNG newbuilds
GTT of France informed of an order for its containment system for three large liquefied natural gas carriers.
Wintershall hires VBMS for North Sea umbilical installation
VBMS, a strategic joint venture of VolkerWessels and Boskalis, has been awarded another contract by Wintershall Noordzee B.V. The scope of work includes the installation, burial, survey and pull-ins of an 18.5km control umbilical which connects the Ravn platform to A6-A, located in the Danish and Ge
McDermott, GE form io oil & gas consulting
GE Oil & Gas and McDermott International, Inc. today launched io oil & gas consulting, a new independent venture to transform the development of front-end solutions for offshore fields. io aims to deliver greater certainty into the design and planning of the offshore oil and gas field and overhaul t
Industry Joins on Subsea Cable Performance
A collaboration between the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and GnoSys Global Ltd is supporting the development of a new insulation material for power cables to improve their performance in the onshore and offshore renewable energy industries and drive down whole life network costs. New, mo
ESS Wraps Up Westermost Rough Seabed Clearance for DONG
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has successfully completed a boulder clearance and seabed preparation campaign on behalf of DONG Energy. The subsea engineering specialist cleared almost 50,000 boulders and other obstructions from 33 routes spread over a distance of 40km at the Westermost Rough wind farm