Marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has signed a frame agreement to provide marine services to Aker BP. Under the frame agreement, Aqualis Offshore will provide marine warranty surveyor and marine services to Aker BP’s fixed platforms, mobile units and subsea fields on the N
A Norwegian-Australian partnership has won its first Australasian contract after securing a subsea wellhead foundation contract for Woodside Energy’s Ferrand exploration well in the Carnarvon Basin. Norway’s Neodrill and Perth-based Icon Engineering have teamed up to rent and install Neodrill’s pate
Norwegian tidal energy developer Tidetec has started building up a consortium to deliver a proposal for the Wyre estuary tidal barrage project in England.
Saab Seaeye, the specialist in electric underwater e-robotic systems, and Australia-based Total Marine Technology (TMT) have launched a new lightweight electric torque tool. The tool can operate across the Saab Seaeye range of e-robotic vehicles. According to Saab Seaeye, no smaller electric class 1
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) and the European Subsea Cable Association (ESCA) have jointly developed a desk note to assist the subsea cable sector with marine licence applications.
Ocean Power Technologies has signed an agreement with Premier Oil to study the feasibility of using the PB3 PowerBuoy for decommissioning operations in the North Sea. The contract outlines work that will determine the viability of using the PB3 for monitoring and guarding remaining wells and subsea
LLOG Exploration (LLOG) has started development drilling operations at the Buckskin project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The initial phase of Buckskin deepwater project will consist of two development wells in Keathley Canyon 829 and a six-mile subsea tieback to the Lucius platform at Keathley C
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has signed an agreement with oil and gas company Premier Oil to study the feasibility of using its wave energy technology for decommissioning operations in the North Sea.
Aker Solutions has secured contracts from Statoil to provide subsea production systems and services for the Troll Phase 3 and Askeladd natural-gas developments offshore Norway. The company will deliver a subsea production system consisting of two manifolds and nine trees for the Troll development in
Nova Scotia-based start-up Luna Ocean has received funding through Innovacorp’s Blue Solutions competition to further advance its tidal energy technology.
Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation (OTE) has completed the first draft of the master plan for the EcoVillage in the Virgin Islands that will be powered by ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) system.
UTEC, an Acteon company, has secured multiple geophysical survey contracts in Saudi Arabia in conjunction with its in Kingdom partner, Zamil Offshore. The contracts which include multiple work-sites are for geophysical surveys in the Safiniyah, Marjan and Zuluf fields, offshore Saudi Arabia. UTEC wi
Subsea 7 has recently deployed ASV Global’s C-Worker 7 class autonomous surface vessel to support a pipelay operation off the coast of Egypt. Fitted with a survey suite comprising a multibeam echosounder and side scan sonar, the C-Worker 7 carried out touchdown monitoring in support of the Seven Ant
The U.S. oilfield services major Halliburton has reported net loss in the fourth quarter 2017 of $825 million or 94 cents per share on charges related to U.S. tax reform and Venezuela receivables. Halliburton recorded an aggregate $882 million of non-cash discrete tax charges in the fourth quarter o
