Equipment
Hummer Jacket Ready for Installation
Fabrication of the platform jacket for the Hummer development project in the Gulf of Mexico has been completed, Petsec Energy informed on Tuesday. The platform jacket is a 4 pile, 3 slot structure designed to be installed in water depth of 215 feet over the Main Pass Block 270 #3 Hummer discovery we
Platform jacket for Gulf of Mexico’s Hummer project complete
Petsec Energy, an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, has announced the completion of a platform jacket for the Castex Energy-operated Hummer development project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, offshore Louisiana. To remind, Pestec announced the beginning of the platform jacket c
Sonardyne Mini-Ranger 2 Aids Eggers’ UXO Clearance in Baltic Sea
Marine salvage specialists, Eggers Kampfmittelbergung GmbH, has completed its first project using underwater acoustic tracking technology supplied by Sonardyne International, UK, during an operation to dispose of unexploded ordnance lying off the German coast in the Baltic Sea. The Mini-Ranger 2 Ult
Protean Plans Further WEC Deployments
Protean Wave Energy informed that it is planning to proceed with further deployments of its Protean Wave Energy Converter (WEC) during this quarter after an independent review of results is completed from the recent offshore trial. In addition, the company informed that it has now prepared and provi
Schlumberger, Golar LNG join forces to develop gas reserves
LNG giant Golar LNG and oilfield services provider Schlumberger have announced the creation of OneLNG, a joint venture to ‘rapidly develop’ low cost gas reserves to LNG. According to Schlumberger’s press release on Monday, the combination of Schlumberger reservoir knowledge, wellbore technologies an
Nexans to supply umbilical for Woodside’s Greater Enfield project
Nexans, a supplier of cables and umbilicals for the oil and gas industry, will deliver umbilical and accessories to OneSubsea for a project offshore Australia. Nexans said on Monday that OneSubsea ordered the umbilical, that is 32 km long and combining power, signal and steel tubes, to develop Woods
Vroon’s PSV hired for testing of new offshore access gangway
One of Vroon’s platform supply vessels (PSVs) has been chartered by Ztechnologies to test a new offshore access gangway system in the Dutch section of the North Sea. Vroon reported through its social media channels on Monday that Ztechnologies, a provider of offshore mooring and gangway solutions, c
Navantia Delivers Jackets for Wikinger OWF
Navantia has delivered to Iberdrola the first jackets for Wikinger offshore wind farm located in the Baltic Sea, approximately 75 km from the German mainland. The jacket foundations have been built in Navantia’s Fene shipyard by the Navantia-Windar consortium. The contract between the companies invo
Schlumberger 2Q hit by impairments, restructuring charges
Schlumberger, world’s largest oilfield services company, posted a net loss for the second quarter of 2016, and announced further job cuts. The company’s net loss was $2.1 billion down from a net income of 1.1 billion. Second quarter revenue fell to $7.1 billion, down from $9 billion in the correspon
Oceaneering expects ‘weak’ 2H 2016. Posts 2Q income drop
Offshore support services firm Oceaneering reported a net income of $22 million for the second quarter of 2016, down from a net income of $65.4 million a year ago. The company’s revenue for the quarter was $625 million, down from $810 million in the corresponding quarter of 2015. The company said th
BP renews line pipe supply deal with Japanese steel maker
Japan’s Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation and Sumitomo Corp have renewed a master agreement for the supply of line pipe with the British oil company BP. The Japanese steelmaker on Friday said that the long-term deal, effective from July 1, was for five years. BP will have an option to extend
Celtic Interconnector Project Enters Next Phase
The French President and An Taoiseach Enda Kenny have launched the next stage of the Celtic Interconnector, a proposed €1 billion subsea electricity cable linking Ireland and France. The capacity of the Celtic Interconnector is estimated at approximately 700 megawatts (MW), enough to power 450,000 h
A&M University Conducts Dredge Experiments
Dr. Robert Randall, W. H. Bauer Professor in Dredging Engineering in the Department of Ocean Engineering at Texas A&M University, recently conducted laboratory experiments using a model dredge at the Haynes Coastal Engineering Laboratory. Three graduate students, Joe Girani, Josh Lewis and Paulo de
NOV Snaps Up Kongsberg’s Subsea Products Division
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies has signed a purchase agreement with a subsidiary of National Oilwell Varco (NOV) regarding the sale of Subsea Products. According to Kongsberg, the sale includes Thor Tie-In, Weaklink, Pipeline Structures (typically PLEM, PLETS, Wyes, Tees, Foundations, Spools, Jump