Equipment
China Selects Sonardyne Acoustics for Six New Research Vessels
Sonardyne Asia has informed that its Ranger 2 underwater acoustic positioning technology has been selected for six new Chinese scientific research vessels. The new order, announced during the OI China exhibition and conference in Shanghai, follows last month’s news that the Polar Research Institute
FPSO provider bends with the wind amid oil market downturn
Dutch provider of floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units to the offshore oil and gas industry, SBM Offshore, has been selected by EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDF EN) to provide floating wind systems solution for a pilot project offshore France. As a part of the French government’s turn
Technip to supply umbilical for Gulf of Mexico project
Technip has been awarded a contract by a ‘major operator’ to supply a subsea control umbilical in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract with an unnamed buyer was won by Technip’s wholly-owned subsidiary Technip Umbilicals Inc. It includes the project management and manufacture of several kilometers of a
Technip Bags Gulf of Mexico Umbilical Deal
Technip’s wholly-owned subsidiary Technip Umbilicals has been awarded a contract by an undisclosed operator to supply a subsea control umbilical in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract includes the project management and manufacture of several kilometers of a static and dynamic unarmoured steel tube umb
Aker BP hires IKM for Alvheim work
Aker BP has awarded a frame agreement to IKM Cleandrill, a specialist mud recovery subsidiary of the IKM Group, for the provision of a mud recovery services during drilling on the Alvheim development in the North Sea. IKM said that the deal is a three-year frame agreement for riserless closed loop m
GWL Acquires Barents Sea Seismic Data with Its New Technology
Geology Without Limits (GWL) explored the Barents Sea’s Norwegian shelf segment employing its new FloatSeis marine seismic technology. GWL markets FloatSeis as marine seismic technology that amends CDP reflection method with refracted waves data. Using custom seismic equipment in addition to both 2D
Li-S Battery Development Project Moves Forward
Steatite has completed the first phase of a 24-month project to develop a pressure-tolerant lithium sulphur (Li-S) battery pack that can improve the endurance and speed of ‘deep-dive autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). According to the company, after the demonstration that Li-S cells can operate
UK: James Fisher finishes inspection campaign for Shell
James Fisher Subsea has completed a four-month inspection campaign on six North Sea oil rig platforms for Shell UK using asset-based remotely operated vehicles (ABROVs). The company said that, traditionally, oil rig inspections are done using a dedicated remotely operated vehicle support vessel (ROV
Tullow On Track with Jubilee Field FPSO Repair
UK-listed oil and gas player Tullow informed on Wednesday that Jubilee field FPSO turret remediation project is progressing as planned. The interim spread-mooring of the vessel on its current heading is on track to be completed by the end of 2016. To remind, in April this year, Tullow notified that
Eddy Pump Releases New Cutterhead Design for Excavator Attachment
Eddy Pump Corporation – a dredge equipment and pump manufacturer from El Cajon, California – has started shipping the company’s newly released cutterhead design. The Excavator Dredge Pump Attachment has been outfitted with a new direct drive design and improved cutterhead. This results in a clean de
Ichthys Project’s Pipeline Ready to Deliver Gas
The offshore and onshore sections of the 890 kilometer gas export pipeline for the Inpex-led Ichthys LNG project have been welded together in Darwin on Wednesday. Joining the two pipeline sections—882 kilometers offshore and eight kilometers onshore—means the pipeline is now ready to deliver gas fro
Cape Sharp Tidal Completes Subsea Cable Link
Cape Sharp Tidal’s marine operations team has connected the turbine cable tail with the 300-meter interconnection cable at the Minas Passage, twenty-four hours after deploying the 2MW instream tidal turbine. The cable connects the turbines’ power and data systems to an existing 16MW subsea export ca
VBMS Wins Borssele Alpha Export Cables Work
Boskalis’ subsidiary VBMS in consortium with NKT Cables has been awarded the Borssele Alpha contract by TenneT for the installation of two export cables that will connect the Borssele offshore wind farms 1 and 2 to TenneT’s onshore grid in the Netherlands. The contract value of Boskalis’ share is ap
Sonardyne Aids EMAS Chiyoda Subsea Execute Julimar Project
Sonardyne said it has supplied a specialist survey software to help complete a metrology campaign off the coast of Western Australia in just 26 hours. The project was led by EMAS Chiyoda Subsea (ECS), who was contracted by Apache Energy to install infrastructure at the Julimar natural gas field. The