Operations & Maintenance
Woodside Hits Gas at Pyxis-1 (Australia)
Woodside announced that the Pyxis-1 exploration well in production licence WA-34-L has intersected approximately 18.5 metres of net gas within the Jurassic sandstone target. The well reached a total depth of 3347 metres. Wireline logging has confirmed the discovery through the recovery of gas sample
DOF Subsea to Provide AUV Services
DOF Subsea, a provider of integrated subsea services, will stage the European launch of a new addition to its suite of services next week. During the Ocean Business event at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK from April 14th to 16th, the company will showcase its newest service, uti
Uptime International Wins Offshore Wind Contract
Uptime International has entered into contract with Ulstein Verft AS for delivery of two active motion compensated gangways. The walk to work systems will be mounted during first half of 2016 on two new built wind turbine service operation vessels (SOV) ordered by Bernhard Schulte and their affiliat
Nautilus Hires Gardline CGG for SMS Hunt
Nautilus Minerals has signed a contract with Gardline CGG to provide exploration services for Nautilus’ 2015 program in the Solomon Islands. The vessel MV Duke will be used to generate targets to expand Nautilus’ Seafloor Massive Sulphide (“SMS”) prospect inventory within its 100% owned Solomon Isla
Bibby Subsea Orders Two ROVs from FMC Technologies Schilling Robotics
Bibby Subsea, Bibby Offshore’s Houston-based division, has commissioned two HD work-class ROVs (Remote Operated Vehicles) designed by FMC Technologies Schilling Robotics. Capable of operating at depths of up to 3000m. These underwater vehicles will be working in the Gulf of Mexico on Bibby Subsea’s
Deep Down Wins Several GoM Contracts
Deep Down, an oilfield services company specializing in deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil production distribution system support services has been awarded several contracts for deepwater work in the Gulf of Mexico from undisclosed operators. As the company informs, the work will be completed over th
McDermott Nets Atlanta EPS Subsea Gig from QGEP
McDermott announced that the consortium between McDermott and a consortium partner has been awarded the SURF engineering, product supply and installation scope for the Atlanta Early Production System (EPS) in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil by Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção S.A. (QGEP). McDer
DW: Deepwater Spend to Rise
Deepwater expenditure is expected to increase by 69%, compared to the preceding five-year period, totalling $210 billion from 2015 to 2019, according to Douglas-Westwood’s (DW) World Deepwater Market Forecast 2015-2019. Report author, Mark Adeosun, commented: “As production from mature basins onshor
Video: Wavestar wave energy device
Danish Wavestar is a wave energy device that converts the rising and falling movement of the floats to produce electricity. Wavestar A/S, the company behind Wavestar wave energy device, aims to develop a commercial wave energy device that would have the capacity of 600 kW, and would consist of 20 fl
Osiris Wraps Up Humber Gateway Project
Osiris, part of James Fisher and Sons, has successfully completed a long-term project started in spring 2014, carrying out a wide-range of services with cross-trained personnel on the 219MW wind farm, Humber Gateway, based 8km off the Holderness coast in East Yorkshire. Osiris provided a Cougar-XT R
Dolphin Wins More Work
Oslo-listed seismic contractor, Dolphin, has secured additional contract work and industry funding for new multi-client projects. According to the company, the total amount of work will be 5-6 vessel months of 3D seismic acquisition and 5 months of 2D seismic acquisition. The work is scheduled to be
WATCH: Sea Shepherd Rescues Crew as Poaching Vessel ‘Tunder’ Goes Down
Captain Peter Hammarstedt of the Sea Shepherd anti-poaching ship ‘Bob Barker’ has reported that the unflagged toothfish-poaching vessel ‘Thunder’ has sunk in 4000 metres of water, 19 nautical miles north of the Equator and 115 miles from Sao Tome. The Sea Shepherd ships ‘Bob Barker’ and ‘Sam Simon’
AWE: Pateke-4H Subsea Tie-Back and Installation Successful
AWE, as operator of PMP 38158, has informed that the subsea tie-back and installation project to connect the Pateke-4H development well to the Tui area oil fields gathering system has been successfully completed and that oil production has begun. The Pateke-4H well has been brought onto production a
Gallery: Atmocean moves step closer to deployment
Pumps and equipment are being shipped out to Peru for the scheduled deployment of Atmocean’s wave energy system off Peruvian coastline. The equipment has been shipped out from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Peru, where the company is planning to deploy a scaled 1/3 demonstration system that will consis