Operations & Maintenance
Shell Greenlights Appomattox Project
Shell has made the final investment decision (FID) to advance the Appomattox deep-water development in the Gulf of Mexico. This decision authorises the construction and installation of Shell’s eighth and largest floating platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The Appomattox development will initially produ
Subsea in June
Subsea World News has gathered all the highlights to bring you a summarized version of the most popular articles from the previous month. The month of June has seen many companies announcing job cuts and business restructuring. Red7Marine has gone into administration with 47 jobs lost, Aker Solution
Global Maritime Bags Quadrant Energy Mooring Gig
Global Maritime Deep Sea Mooring has been awarded a contract for the provision of mooring and rig positioning services to the Australian oil and gas company Quadrant Energy. Under the contract with Quadrant Energy, Global Maritime Deep Sea Mooring will perform mooring and rig positioning services fo
Tenders invited for additional O&M at Swansea’s tidal lagoon
Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay Plc will today begin the tendering process for three main operations and maintenance (O&M) contract packages to support the £1billion Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon. Having previously named General Electric and Andritz Hydro as preferred bidders to manage the operations and mainte
Nord Stream Pipeline Survey Checks Out
Nord Stream has completed an external inspection of the two pipelines. The job was executed using an ROV, equipped with digital cameras, specific sensors and operated from a dedicated support vessel. The visual and instrumental (geophysical) inspection was performed on the whole length of the pipeli
TAMRF Extends JOIDES Resolution Charter
Overseas Drilling and Texas A&M Research Foundation (TAMRF) have agreed the extension of TAMRF’s charter of the scientific research vessel ‘JOIDES Resolution’. According to Overseas Drilling’s parent company Siem Offshore, the extension is until September 30,2016 and TAMRF has further options to ext
Royal Navy Divers Take Part in Canadian Exercise
Royal Navy divers have taken part in a multi-national bomb disposal exercise off the West coast of Canada. Exercise Ardent Defender saw bomb disposal teams from six nations converge on Victoria to teach military and civilian technicians the latest methods in disarming explosive devices. Eleven diver
PGS, Schlumberger and Spectrum Cooperate Off Mexico
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a cooperation agreement with Spectrum and Schlumberger in Mexico. The collaboration will acquire 80,000 – 100,000 kilometers of modern, long-offset 2D data encompassing all the major hydrocarbon provinces offshore Mex
CIS Delivers Piling for Subsea 7
Conductor Installation Services (CIS), an Acteon company that provides hammer services to install conductors and drive piles, has successfully completed a subsea piling operation for Subsea 7 in the UK North Sea. The operation was executed as part of the Cladhan field development, located approximat
Reach Subsea and MMT in Survey Alliance
Reach Subsea and MMT have established a Joint Venture agreement primarily for survey services. Consequently, the two parties have performed a charter restructuring arrangement, which should, according to Reach, add more flexibility to the business model and strengthen the companies’ combined market
Island Navigator Contract Gets Green Light
Island Offshore has today lifted the remaining subjects in the shipbuilding contract with Kawasaki Heavy Industries for delivery of the Island Navigator. The vessel is a combined well intervention and tophole drilling vessel with equipment and capacity to perform a series of subsea and well operatio
Statoil Presents Gullfaks Area PDO
Statoil and its partners have today submitted an amendment to the Plan for Development and Operations (PDO) for the Gullfaks licence to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for phase 1 of the Shetland/Lista development. Phase 1 of the development is expected to add 18 million barrels of oil equivale
SeaBird Vessels Start Gigante Shoot
Oslo-listed, SeaBird, informed that all permits related to the Gigante survey for TGS Nopec have been granted and SeaBird has now kicked off the seismic campaign. SeaBird announced the Letter of Award in November 2014. In May this year, TGS was granted seismic permit to acquire 181,500 km regional 2
CorEnergy in $245 Mln GIGS Pipeline Buy
CorEnergy has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the Grand Isle Gathering System (GIGS), a subsea, midstream pipeline system with related onshore facilities serving oil-producing fields in the shallow portion of the Gulf of Mexico. CorEnergy has agreed to acquire the GIGS from En