Talisman Sinopec Energy UK Limited (Talisman Sinopec Energy) has awarded Ocean Installer a contract for umbilical installation at the Arkwright field in the UK sector of the North Sea. This is Ocean Installer’s second contract award this month. The scope of the work is to install a new 11.5 km umbil
Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) reports that the Huntington field development is approaching first oil. All risers are connected to the subsea facilities, and consequently the entire Huntington system is fully connected from the wells to the FPSO Voyageur Spirit. The final subsea preparations
Offshore Marine Management (OMM), specialists in the offshore renewables, hydrocarbon and telecomes industry; has recently completed a feasibility study for Forewind’s planned Round 3 Dogger Bank offshore wind energy development. The study was undertaken to assess route feasibility options along one
Statoil and the partners in the Åsgard Unit have today decided to realise the Smørbukk South Extension project. Smørbukk South Extension holds estimated recoverable reserves of 16.5 million barrels of oil equivalent, and will be developed with a new subsea template connected to existing infrastructu
MCG announces the commencement of a new multi-client 2D survey, MCG1301, in the southwestern Norwegian Barents Sea. This is the fifth consecutive year MCG acquires multiclient 2D in the western Barents Sea. The survey is a consistent 4×4 km grid and will be around 8,400 km. This will bring MCG’s hig
In 2011 and 2012, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate acquired seismic data off Jan Mayen and in the southeastern Barents Sea. In the southeastern Barents Sea, Dolphin Geophysical acquired 6766 line-kilometres during the periods of 26 April – 15 June and 1 – 6 July 2012, using the survey vessel Arte
The latest stage in the construction of Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm, off the North Wales coast, has got underway with the start of inter-array cable installation. The subsea cables will connect all 160 turbines to the two offshore substations already installed more than eight miles off North Wale
Fastnet, the listed E&P company focused on near term exploration acreage in the Celtic Sea and Morocco, announces that it has executed a seismic contract with CGG to acquire, using the SR/V Vantage, 1,710 sq. km. of 3D seismic in the Celtic Sea beginning in mid-April 2013. The total value of the pro
Statoil, with its partners Eni and Petoro, has started production from the Skuld field at Norne in the Norwegian Sea. Skuld is so far the quickest realised of Statoil’s 12 fast-track development projects, measured from discovery to production. Skuld consists of the two discoveries Fossekall and Domp
De-risking offshore renewable energy projects is vital for delivering them safely, on time and on budget. Now project developers and engineers and turbine cable installation contractors working in and around Hamburg and Paris can spend a day with Fugro specialists to gain invaluable understanding of
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA (“TGS”) announces a commercial agreement to sell Fugro’s 2D multi-client library. As a result of this agreement, Fugro provides TGS with an exclusive right to licence and market the majority of Fugro’s multi-client 2D library and receive commission fees on the sales
In this video Jumbo Offshore is taking us through the installation of subsea manifold at a 3000m waterdepth. Using its Deepwater Deployment System onboard the vessel Fairplayer , the company is capable of performing the installation of a 1000 ton manifold in ultra deep waters. The Fairplayer is fitt
An amount of EUR 500 million, intended for investments in a power grid in the Netherlands, is likely to be raised through the sale of part of the Dutch power grid operator TenneT, Reuters informs. According to TenneT’s CEO, the funds are needed in 2014 and 2015 for the upgrade of the grid in the [&h
EMAS AMC, the subsea services division of EMAS, a leading global offshore contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas industry, announced that it has won a contract from Statoil for the transport and installation of subsea templates for the Norwegian Sea’s deepest off
