The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Statoil consent to use the Deepsea Atlantic mobile drilling facility for drilling and well operations at Gullfaks Sør. The consent covers production drilling and work on existing production wells, in addition to permanent plugging and abandonment of thr
Jee Ltd, an independent multi-discipline subsea engineering and training firm, is expanding its subsea engineering public courses programme to Stavanger, Norway in 2015. Jee’s Head of Courses, Jenny Matthew said: “We’re continually developing our extensive training programme and in 2015, in response
Ashtead Technology has set up, a first-of-its-kind, subsea training academy in Aberdeen in the world-renowned subsea centre of excellence at Westhill. The subsea technology training academy will meet global demand for improved competency in the configuration, operation and maintenance of increasingl
Maersk Drilling’s third drillship, Maersk Venturer, which was delivered September 25, 2014 from the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si in South-Korea, has secured a short term contract with oil major Total. Maersk Venturer will start a one well programme offshore Malaysia with an es
Teledyne Technologies’ subsidiary has acquired the business and substantially all of the assets of The Oceanscience Group (Oceanscience). Based in Carlsbad, California, Oceanscience designs and manufactures marine sensor platforms and unmanned surface vehicles. Terms of the transaction were not disc
MMT, a specialist in high-resolution marine surveys, has achieved high scores on the Achilles FPAL Verify audit. The Achilles FPAL community serves the procurement needs of the wider European oil & gas market. FPAL Verify is a supplier assessment that involves a two day visit to a nominated supplier
Ofgem has today set out proposals to allow £1.1 billion funding for a new subsea link in the north of Scotland. The regulator’s proposal is £173.9 million less than the funding request from Scottish Hydro Electricity Transmission (SHE Transmission) to ensure consumers pay no more than necessary. The
KrisEnergy, has chartered the Rubicon Vantage FSO vessel and a catenary anchor leg mooring (CALM) buoy for utilisation on the Wassana oil development in the G10/48 licence area in the Gulf of Thailand. The Wassana field is anticipated to commence production in the second half of 2015. The Rubicon Va
IRM Systems, the independent authority in the design of emergency pipeline repair systems (EPRS), has expanded its staff to meet growing demand for its services. The new full-time personnel are based at its headquarters in the Netherlands. Over the course of this year, IRM Systems has landed four ne
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (October 20 – October 26). FMC Technologies has reported third quarter 2014 revenue of $2.0 billion, up 15 percent from the prior-year quarter ($1.7 billion). Diluted earnings per share were $0
Petrobras has discovered hydrocarbon accumulation in deep waters of the Espírito Santo Basin post-salt by drilling well 4-BRSA-1265-ESS (ANP nomenclature) /4-GLF-42-ESS (Petrobras nomenclature), known as Lontra, at a water depth of 1,319 meters. The well, which is 81 km offshore the city of Vitória
Dutch offshore services company Rederij Groen has taken delivery of the ‘7-Waves’, the second of a total three identical Seismic Research Support Vessels. Once the third of these so-called offshore chasers joins the fleet in January 2015, all of Groen’s five custom built chasers will have been built
CNOOC Limited has made a mid-to-large new discovery Jinzhou 23-2 in Bohai. Jinzhou 23-2 structure is located in the north part of Liaodong Uplift of Bohai with an average water depth of about 10 meters. The well Jinzhou 23-2-3 is drilled and completed at a depth of 1,097 meters and encountered oil a
Nevsky Shipyard and the Direction of State Contractor of Marine Transport Development Program have signed a contract for the construction of 4 multipurpose small-draft salvage vessels of MPSV12 project. Nevsky Shipyard got the right to conclude the given contract having won the open competitive tend
