Reef Subsea has announced a re-organization to create three independent companies: Reef Subsea, X-Subsea and Technocean Subsea, all with separate management and independent strategies. The existing senior management will continue to lead the three new entities, delivering consistent expertise in the
Expro, international oilfield services company, has secured a milestone subsea contract with BP for the Shah Deniz Stage 2 project in the South Caspian Sea, one of Expro’s largest Europe CIS contracts to date. The 5-year contract, worth almost $100m, will see Expro provide completion landing string
Production from the Huntington field in the UK has been interrupted since 12 April whilst work is undertaken to replace a number of couplings that are part of the inert gas system on the floating production and storage unit. According to information conveyed by the operator to the license partners,
FlexTech, a flexible pipe specialist, has signed a contract for flexible pipe installation with Ocean Installer in a $850,000 deal. Aberdeen-based FlexTech will deliver the detailed design of a flexible pipe installation spread as well as installation analysis and project support to Ocean Installer,
Reef Subsea has announced a re-organization to create three independent companies, Reef Subsea, X-Subsea and Technocean Subsea, all with separate management and independent strategies. Reef Subsea was created in 2010 in a joint venture between the oil and gas private equity investor HitecVision and
The AAE-1 Consortium, owners of the Asia-Africa-Europe-1 submarine cable spanning approximately 25,000 km connecting Asia, Middle East, Africa and Europe, and TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company, announced that the contract for the majority of segments of the AAE-1 system has come into force.
Energy Minister Michael Fallon visited Nigg fabrication yard, a key construction site for the Cygnus project, the largest Southern gas field in the North Sea to be approved and developed in the past 25 years. A partnership between GDF Suez, Centrica and Bayerngas, the Cygnus project was only made po
A mission off the coast of South Devon, England has surveyed two U.S. Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs) that were torpedoed and sunk during the D-Day rehearsal Exercise Tiger on April 28, 1944. Using state-of-the-art autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology to collect data from the wreckage site, the
Fairfield Energy Limited has awarded Ocean Installer a contract for air diving services and light subsea construction work at the Dunlin field. The work scope involves air diving services on the Dunlin Alpha platform at -10m LAT for installation of sleeves, clamps and anodes, as well as additional l
After the recent sail away from Heerema Vlissingen, Siemens’ HelWin beta jacket arrived at its location in the German North Sea where the installation started by the semi-submersible construction vessel ‘Thialf’. Heerema Fabrication Group informed that the installation of the 4,500 t HelWin beta jac
Twenty foundations have been installed so far at the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm, and the installation vessel INNOVATION is on its way back to the site with the fifth foundation batch loaded. The construction work is carried out according to schedule and with a very good performance, despite
A new sophisticated crane barge has arrived at Giglio Island in order to carry out operations related to the installation of the 19 sponsons to be completed before Costa Concordia refloating. The CONQUEST MB1 is an offshore crane barge fitted with a sophisticated rotating/luffing crane and associate
BP’s Discipline Lead Reservoir Engineer, Euan Duncan, will address SPE Aberdeen’s members and the wider public on 23 April, at a presentation covering how EOR (enhanced oil recovery) works and the opportunities this technology presents when conditions are right. Duncan will discuss the BP North Sea
Odfjell Drilling’s sixth- generation semisubmersible, Deepsea Atlantic, resumed drilling operations for Statoil on the Gullfaks field late evening on 20 April 2014 after an efficient and successful yard stay. The special periodic survey and the planned modifications were executed in 25 days, five da
