Operations & Maintenance
New Industry Project Fights Blade Leading Edge Erosion
A major new collaborative project has been launched between ORE Catapult, wind farm owner/operators, wind turbine manufacturers, and academics at world-leading research institutes. The Blade Leading Edge Erosion Programme (BLEEP) will coordinate industry wide initiatives to reduce the adverse impact
Wintershall Ups Maria Appraisal
Wintershall has announced higher recoverable resource estimates for its operated Maria Field. Following intensive internal studies, Germany’s largest internationally active oil and gas producer now estimates that the planned technical recoverable resources will reach about 180 million barrels of oil
Cecon Secures Funds for Third Subsea Vessel
Cecon Shipping 3 AS, a subsidiary of Rever Offshore AS, has secured a USD 35 million senior bond financing deal with York for the purpose of starting the completion of Hull 719, the third in line of Cecon’s 130 meters long SURF subsea construction vessels. To enable an earlier start-up of the Hull 7
VIDEO: Ceona Amazon Naming Ceremony
Shipbuilding company Lloyd Werft delivered the Ceona Amazon in Bremerhaven where the vessel was officially christened this month by her Godmother, Cynthia Huber. Following its christening, the Ceona Amazon will be equipped with a 570 tonne multi-lay pipe tower and two heavy duty 400 tonne offshore c
Statoil Gets Oseberg Vestflanke Extension
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway, to use Oseberg Vestflanke beyond its originally planned life. Oseberg Vestflanke is part of the Oseberg field and has been developed using subsea facilities tied back to the Oseberg field centre. The plan for development and op
Energinet.dk Gets Green Light for Kriegers Flak Link
The Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Building has issued investment approval for the units to be erected by Energinet.dk in order to connect the forthcoming offshore wind turbines at Kriegers Flak in the Baltic Sea to the onshore electricity grid. The approval allows Energinet.dk to enter int
Subsea 7 Axes Almost 150 Jobs in Norway
The UK-based oil services company Subsea 7 is reported to be letting go almost 150 employees in Norway. Namely, the company said last September that it was planning to cut costs by reducing its headcount, largely due to project delays, but didn’t specify which areas will be cut. According to the lat
Wood Group Announces Pay Cuts
In response to cost and efficiency challenges affecting the UK North Sea oil & gas sector, Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has today announced plans to reduce the rates paid to its UK-based limited company offshore and onshore contract workers. In addition, salaries will be frozen for the majority of UK-base
Statoil Submits PDO for Gullfaks Rimfaks
Statoil and its partners have decided to develop the Rutil discovery located in the Gullfaks Rimfaks valley in the North Sea. Providing close to 80 million barrels of oil equivalent, the development will extend the lifetime of the Gullfaks A platform. The plan for development and operation (PDO) was
PHOTO: NUI Robot in Arctic Survey
The AWI marine expert Antje Boetius and a team of scientists from the US-American Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presented first results from test dives of a new innovative under ice robot at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. The new vehicle, called Ne
PHOTO: ASI Marine in Pipeline Inspection with Falcon ROV
ASI Marine has established the record for the longest tunnel swim with a Falcon ROV. By modifying the Saab Seaeye Falcon ROV, they were able to send the vehicle through a pipeline stretching over four kilometres under Gladstone Harbour, Queensland to Curtis Island. ASI Marine also sent the same modi
WGK Wins Captain Subsea FEED
Chevron North Sea Limited has awarded front end engineering and design contracts to Wood Group Kenny Caledonia for subsea work on its Captain EOR project. Under the contract, Wood Group Kenny will provide subsea engineering of the trees, wellheads, controls and the polymer injection flowlines to the
Reach, MMT in ‘Surveyor Interceptor’ Trials
Reach Subsea and MMT have announced, after one week with offshore testing from the vessel Edda Fonn, that the Surveyor Interceptor is performing according to expectations, both on speed and the survey data quality. Reach Subsea ASA (Reach) has, as previously announced, together with survey partner M
Technip’s Extension for ‘Viking Neptun’
Technip in Norway has today exercised their first option to extend the contract related to the newbuild Viking Neptun, owned by Eidesvik Offshore According to Reach Subsea and Eidesvik Offshore, the extension is from 110 to 180 days operations in 2015. As previously announced in November, the Eidesv