Equipment
Fugro Boosts Renewables Division
Fugro has added cable-lay services to trenching for offshore windfarm and tidal energy sectors. The company has equipped its trenching vessel, Fugro Saltire, with a cable-lay spread that comprises a reel drive system to store the cables, a tensioner to lay them, twin winches and a quadrant deploymen
Plexus eyes Malaysian market
Plexus Holdings PLC, an oil and gas engineering services business, has announced that Plexus Products (Asia) Sdn Bhd (PPA), the company’s joint venture with Integrated Petroleum Services Sdn Bhd (IPS), has secured a local PETRONAS licence to manufacture and supply Plexus’ POS-GRIP wellhead equipment
Fugro Offers New Services
Fugro has added cable-lay services to trenching for offshore windfarm and tidal energy sectors. The company has equipped its trenching vessel, Fugro Saltire, with a compact, custom-made, cable-lay spread that comprises a reel drive system to store the cables, a tensioner to lay them, twin winches an
J2 Subsea to Get Another Fathom iVP Control System
Portlethen-based, Fathom Systems, has secured an order for the subsea tooling control system packages from an Acteon company, J2 Subsea. According to Fathom Systems, the scope of supply includes fully proportional intelligent valve packs, specifically for heavy duty manipulator arm operations and us
ASN Sets Higher Standards in Subsea Fiber-Optic Technology
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), the undersea cables subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, has achieved a breakthrough record of data transmission over a distance of 10,000 kilometers. The record was achieved using a real-time processing prototypes of a 300 gigabits-per-second new modulation technol
Fugro’s Integrity Monitoring for Berkut
Fugro has delivered a bespoke structural monitoring system for Exxon Neftegas, as operator for, and on behalf of, the Sakhalin-1 Consortium, to monitor the structural integrity of its Berkut oil platform in the Arkutun Dagi field. Located on the North-East coast of Sakhalin island in the Russian Far
Subsea 7 and OneSubsea Join Forces
Subsea 7 has signed an agreement establishing a worldwide non-incorporated alliance with OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger company. The new alliance should see both companies jointly design, develop and deliver integrated subsea development solutions through the combination of subsurface experti
WesternGeco wins patent infringement case against ION
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently affirmed the 2014 judgment that ION Geophysical Corp. infringed four seminal WesternGeco LLP patents covering streamer steering technology for marine seismic surveys, and that WesternGeco is the rightful owner of the technology, Schlumberger
Pommec Provides Dive Control System for Briggs Marine
Briggs Marine has contracted Pommec BV to build a stand-alone dive control with attached air supply and compressor, a ‘Plug and Play’ system that can be used aboard a vessel or along the quayside. Pommec BV, a manufacturer supplier of commercial diving equipment has already built and delivered a LAR
Subsea 7 teams up with OneSubsea for SPS and SURF solutions
Subsea 7 S.A. has signed an agreement establishing a worldwide non- incorporated alliance with Houston-based OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger company. The two companies entered the agreement to jointly design, develop and deliver integrated subsea development solutions through the combination o
TDW Supports ESDV Replacements Off West Africa
T.D. Williamson, a solutions provider for pressurized piping systems, has delivered a double block and bleed isolation during ESDV replacements in the South Atlantic Sea offshore West Africa for an independent European oil and gas company. Performing maintenance or repair on a live crude export pipe
Fugro’s integrity monitoring system for Berkut oil platform
Fugro has delivered a structural monitoring system for Exxon Neftegas Ltd., as operator of the Sakhalin-1 Consortium, to monitor the structural integrity of its Berkut oil platform in the Arkutun Dagi field. The Berkut oil platform, located off the northeast coast of Sakhalin Island in the Russian F
Olympic Canyon Finds Debris of Missing Dornier Aircraft
The Reliance vessel, Olympic Canyon, after a 33 day search by the Indian Coast Guard and other agencies, has located the debris of the Dornier aircraft CG791. The Dornier aircraft went missing on June 8, 2015 after a routine maritime surveillance sortie along the Tamil Nadu coast. According to India
Stena Line Terminal to Get New Berth
Stena Line, an international transport and travel service company, and the Port of Rotterdam today announced their collaboration to build a second berth at the Stena Line terminal at Europoort, as part of a 27 million Euro investment. “We believe in the future of Europoort as a strong freight hub on