James Fisher and Sons has recently secured a number of contracts in the offshore renewable energy sector with a combined value of circa £30 million. James Fisher has been awarded Phase 2 of the unexploded ordinance work and boulder clearance, as well as met mast (measurement tower) decommissioning o
Seabed Geosolutions has secured a 4D ocean bottom node (OBN) monitor survey in West Africa for a major oil company. The project, for which the data is expected to be acquired over a two-month period during the third quarter of 2019, will cover 151 square kilometers in water depths up to 600 meters.
The Dales Voe decommissioning facility in Shetland has seen the arrival of two new installations from the North Sea for decommissioning by strategic partners Veolia and Peterson. The structures from Spirit Energy’s ST-1 arrived in the dedicated port facility on Monday. Now at the end of their workin
Expro has secured a contract by Pacific Drilling’s subsidiary, Pacific Santa Ana, for the provision of an Intervention Riser System (IRS) for PETRONAS’s Chinguetti field Phase II plug and abandonment (P&A) contract, offshore Mauritania. The contract, valued at $20 million, will see Expro provide its
Balticconnector project offshore pipeline construction work in the sea has completed on Friday. Pipe laying was finished at the end of June, and the shielding work began in mid-June. Now that the shielding work has been finished, all construction work in the sea has been completed. Next, the offshor
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Italian cabling and fiber-optics giant Prysmian has inaugurated its South America regional headquarters with the expansion of its Sorocaba factory in the region of Brazil’s São Paolo province. Prysmian is thus leaving its Santo André facility and integrating the Prysmian and General Cable organisati
Norwest Energy has informed that seismic acquisition operations have been completed on the Xanadu 3D Transition Zone in exploration permit TPI 15, north of Perth, Western Australia. Surveying of the western panel was completed on Thursday, the company informed. Contractor Synterra Technologies is cu
Aker BP has made an oil discovery in the NOAKA – North of Alvheim Krafla Askja – area in the Norwegian section of the North Sea. Aker BP is about to complete the Liatårnet exploration well in licence 442 in the NOAKA area. The well has proved oil with a gross resource estimate of 80-200 […]
C-Kore Systems has completed another offshore campaign for the unnamed client off the West Australian North West Shelf. C-Kore’s subsea testing tools located the faulty subsea equipment allowing it to be replaced to make the field operational again, the company explained. Stephen Leung, Subsea Contr
Fugro has provided remote positioning services onboard a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for Bluewater during subsea inspection, repair and maintenance campaign in the North Sea. The week-long operation included accurate remote configuration of the positioning systems onboar
NKT has been awarded a turnkey project from Lundin Norway for the 132 kV high-voltage power cable connecting the Edvard Grieg oil and gas production platform to the Johan Sverdrup field center in the North Sea. The power cable solution will finalize the Utsira High Power Hub Project to power several
McDermott International has been awarded a contract, valued between $1 million and $50 million, by Qatar Petroleum to carry out front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the North Field Expansion (NFE) project. The FEED work includes offshore wellhead platforms, pipelines and cables associated wit
Fugro and partner Amplified Geochemical Imaging (AGI), have sold multiple licences for data from frontier regions offshore east coast Canada. The data were acquired during two separate hydrocarbon seep surveys in the Orphan Basin (2017) and Carson Basin (2018), both situated on the continental margi
