Operations & Maintenance
DownUnder GeoSolutions Begins Olympus 3D Processing
DownUnder GeoSolutions’ has started processing of Olympus 3D Reprocessing Project at its Perth facility, Searcher Seismic informed. The project, in cooperation with Spectrum, comprises the reprocessing of 20 existing 3D datasets through a broadband pre-stack time and depth migration (PSTM and PSDM)
StormGeo to Support Cable-Laying Ops
StormGeo, a provider of decision support for weather sensitive operations, has launched ‘Cable Lay Service’, the newest addition to its suite of weather forecasting services. According to the company, its Cable Lay Service provides a Common Operating Picture (COP) to enable operators, owners and sup
Beach Energy Begins Gas Production from Udacha Field
Beach Energy’s Udacha field in the Cooper Basin, South Australia, has achieved first gas, Rawson Resources informed. The PRL 26 (Udacha) licence is operated by Beach Energy, and Rawson holds 10% interest. The Udacha-1 well has been tied back as a producing well to the Middleton production facility.
NPD Approves Start-Up of Subsea Facility on Balder
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted ExxonMobil consent to start-up a subsea facility for production well 25/11-E-29 AH on the Balder field. Recently ExxonMobil received an approval from Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use E-29-AH subsea well, on the Balder field. The Balder fi
Cape Cod Canal surveyed ahead of tidal test site deployment
Survey works have been conducted on an area in Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts where a tidal test site will be installed later this year.
Searcher Begins 2D Shoot Offshore Mexico
Searcher Seismic informed that BGP Pioneer has started acquisition of the Buscador near-shore 2D seismic survey, offshore Mexico. The project comprises 11,200 km of high quality, long-offset 2D data and targets the near shore areas covering rounds 2, 3 and 4, the company explained. The data, which w
Market Slowdown Impacts Swiber’s West Africa EPCIC
Swiber has informed that due to weakness in the oil and gas sector the West Africa project has not been able to progress in accordance with its original schedule. The company secured the contract in 2014 from a Houston-based oil and gas company to provide engineering, procurement, construction, inst
Tidal joins forces with wind for more efficient grid use
An agreement has been reached between Atlantis Resources’ majority owned MeyGen project and a nearby wind farm development to facilitate access to the distribution grid for other renewable energy projects.
Rotech Subsea in Management Buyout
Rotech Subsea has completed a management buyout (MBO) in a move that should see the company strengthen its position in subsea mass flow excavation. Following the MBO, the group’s three operating companies, Rotech Subsea, Rotech Engineering and Rotech Fabrication, will be headed up by continuing dire
Funding boosts Mainstay Marine’s expansion
Marine engineering firm Mainstay Marine Solutions has secured funding from Finance Wales and Barclays to expand its business in Pembrokeshire.
Cape Sharp Tidal turbine en route to Halifax for ballasting
The first Cape Sharp Tidal turbine and the Scotia Tide barge will arrive in the Halifax Harbour today where its steel subsea base will be ballasted with concrete.
Kleven Completes Aker Wayfarer Upgrade
Kleven’s Myklebust Verft in Gursken, Norway, has completed modification of the Aker Wayfarer to become a deepwater subsea equipment support vessel (SESV), Ocean Yeald informed on Thursday. The modification contract was inked in October 2014 with Ocean Yield, a ship owning company with investments wi
Technip Charters Polar Onyx for Angola Work
Norwegian offshore vessels provider, GC Rieber Shipping, has reached a time charter agreement with Technip Angola for the vessel Polar Onyx. The 130-meter flexible piplay and subsea construction vessel will be engaged in a SURF and construction campaign offshore Angola. According to GC Rieber, the c
Saipem Lands Contracts Over EUR 1.5 Billion
Saipem said it has been awarded new contracts and variation orders in E&C offshore, for an overall amount in excess of 1.5 billion euros. The most significant contract relates to the field development project for the Zohr gas field, located off the Egyptian coast in the Mediterranean sea. Petrobel h