Ocean Installer has been awarded a SURF (Subsea structures, Umbilicals, Risers, Flowlines) contract for subsea lines modification work at several Statoil operated fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The total contract value (firm) is approx. USD 55 million and with an additional potential (op
CGG announced its award by PETRONAS of a contract to acquire and process a 10,000km2 3D seismic survey program offshore Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia using BroadSeisTM, CGG’s broadband marine solution. The survey started in August and is due to last five months. The survey dataset will be processed
SBM Offshore announces the successful delivery of FPSO OSX-2. The vessel was delivered to the client, OSX 2 Leasing B.V. (“OSX”) this week. With a total topside weight of over 10,000 tons and a production capacity of 100,000 barrels of oil per day, the facility was constructed in 27 months from cont
MP Mark Lancaster says it’s vital to the future of the UK economy to encourage the growth of high calibre SMEs particularly those specialising in advanced technologies. He was speaking during the official opening of new offices for the Milton Keynes division of Fugro Subsea Services Limited (FSSL) w
GE Oil & Gas announced that E.ON Exploration & Production is the first offshore company to deploy its next-generation VetcoGray SVXT™ S-Series vertical production subsea tree for use in a shallow water project in the North Sea. The tree, manufactured in GE’s Broadfold Road plant in Aberdeen, Scotlan
TDW Offshore Services (TDW) announced that it has signed a frame agreement with Centrica Storage Limited (CSL) to provide pipeline isolation services with its SmartPlug® tool. The tool makes it possible to safely isolate pressure in an active pipeline, and maintain production while necessary mainten
The construction work on a wave energy project worth around $7 million, located off the cost of Port MacDonnell, has commenced. The wave energy unit will provide electricity for about 1000 homes. Oceanlinx expects that the unit will be installed by the year end. The unit will be tugged by a boat fro
FoundOcean, the largest dedicated offshore construction grouting company in the world, announced the opening of its newest office in Houston, Texas to support its expansion overseas. “Houston is recognised as the energy capital of the world, with almost half of its economic activity driven by the en
Coastline Surveys has been awarded a contract to undertake offshore geophysical surveys for East Anglia Offshore Wind Limited (EAOW) in support of the development of the Offshore Cable Corridor for East Anglia THREE and East Anglia FOUR. This contract will provide up to thirteen full time jobs in th
Northern Maine fishing vessels will be able to navigate more safely around the dangerous Cobscook Bay thanks to an updated version of the area’s nautical chart issued by NOAA. The latest chart includes a new detailed illustration — called a “chart inset” — of the waters around Falls Island, providin
CGG announced that it has started the re-imaging of its entire Cornerstone multi-client dataset to create a 35,000-km2 contiguous broadband PSDM volume, covering the Central North Sea. The existing conventional north-south long-offset data will be reprocessed with a deghosting technique to produce a
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a contract valued at approximately $140 million from Statoil for the removal and replacement of risers, flowlines and associated subsea structures on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Project management and engineering work will commence immediately from Subsea 7’
Statoil has started the build-up of its Aberdeen operating organisation and reported today at SPE Offshore Europe 2013 that the company and its partners are on track with the Mariner field development project. The Mariner heavy oil field was discovered in 1981. Statoil entered the license as operato
Ocean Power Technologies Ltd (OPT), the world-leading supplier of moored, floating buoys that harvest energy from waves, announced that it has chosen Offshore Europe to launch its PowerBuoy technology into the global oil and gas sector. Already demonstrated in the defence, renewables and utilities s
