Equipment
Trendsetter, Add Energy Build Relief Well Injection Spool
Trendsetter Engineering and Add Energy have combined their expertise in well control engineering and equipment design to develop the relief well injection spool (RWIS). The RWIS is designed to enable pumping of up to 200 barrels per minute of kill mud through a single relief well utilizing multiple
Airborne Oil & Gas to Qualify TCP for Total’s Jumper Spools
Airborne Oil & Gas has started a project to qualify thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) for a deepwater jumper spool application for French operator Total. The Airborne Oil & Gas’ TCP that will be qualified on this project targets deep water applications. “The possibility with TCP to handle large def
Spectrum Goes Data Shopping at Dolphin
Norwegian multi-client seismic data specialist Spectrum has entered into an agreement with the administrator of the Dolphin estate to acquire the 2D survey in Brazil Santos Campos and the 3D survey in Lebanon. Financial details surrounding the deal have not been disclosed. Spectrum’s purchase follow
Imperial sells Permasense to Emerson
US-based automation specialist Emerson has agreed to acquire the UK-based Permasense Limited, a provider of non-intrusive corrosion monitoring technologies for the offshore and onshore oil production industry. Permasense is Imperial Innovations Group’s portfolio company for which Emerson paid an ini
ALE’s massive crane begins work on P-74 FPSO
ALE Heavy Lift, a UK-based heavy-lift and transportation specialist, has performed its inaugural lifts on the P-74 FPSO project in Brazil with what the company says is the world’s largest capacity land-based crane, the AL.SK350. To remind, the crane was load-tested in preparation for its first lifts
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (September 26 – October 02). Technip Offshore Finland is reportedly sending home its entire workforce employed at construction yard in Pori. According to Finish media, layoffs for 288 yard workers shou
New CFO for Royal IHC
Royal IHC has appointed Arie Vergunst as the company’s new chief financial officer. Vergunst will start at his new position as of October 1, 2016. He succeeds Dave Vander Heyde, who became CEO on September 1, 2016. Vergunst has worked at IHC since June 2007 in several financial positions, both at ho
Global Marine Bolsters Portland Facility with New Power Cable Carousel
Global Marine Systems has extended its capabilities with the installation of a power cable carousel to store and manage power cables at its Portland Port depot on the south coast of England. The company said one OFTO (Offshore Transmission Owner) client is already utilising the facility’s new capabi
Allspeeds Builds ROV Cut Loop Cutter for BOPs
Allspeeds, the designers and manufacturers of Webtool, has released an ROV cut loop cutter for emergency activation of a blow out preventer (BOP). It is used to sever the cutting loop to activate the BOP in the event other measures have failed. Subsea intervention involves the use of remotely operat
World’s First Operational 3D Printed Excavator Step Closer to Reality
For the past two years a conglomerate of trade associations, industry, government and academia have been collaborating on the world’s first operational 3D printed excavator. That project made a giant leap forward with the recent printing of a prototype that leveraged large-scale additive manufacturi
Dresser-Rand delivers power generation equipment for Shell’s Appomattox
Dresser-Rand, a U.S.-based oilfield equipment provider and a part of Siemens’ Power and Gas Division, has recently delivered power generation equipment for a combined-cycle power plant (CCPP) for the Shell Appomattox deep-water oil and gas floating production platform. The platform will be located 8
Seaeye Leopard Arrives at ROVOP’s Houston Base
ROVOP has expanded its fleet of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for the US region. Namely, the company said it has taken delivery of Seaeye Leopard electric work class ROV, the first of its kind for the Gulf of Mexico (GoM), and believed it could help operators reduce costs by 40 percent. The ROV
Prysmian Presents Its Latest HVDC Innovation
Prysmian said it is set to launch a new breakthrough cable technology for the development of power transmission grids that should ensure higher electrical performances, lower costs and better environmental sustainability. The company said it has successfully developed and tested its new P-Laser 600
New Turbidity Monitoring Buoy from MacArtney
MacArtney’s German subsidiary, MBT GmbH, has manufactured a turbidity monitoring buoy, which is intended for deployment for accompanying environmental monitoring during dredging. Being deployed as a surface buoy, the compact sized, autonomous buoy system intended for determining turbidity in coastal