Norske Shell AS is extending its use of AGR’s deepwater excavation technology and expertise on the Ormen Lange field. Originally, a £9m (NOK84m) deal announced in February between the Aberdeen-based Excavation & Trenching arm of AGR Drilling Services and Norske Shell was to last until June 2, 2011.
All three sections of the first of Nord Stream’s twin 1,224 kilometre natural gas pipelines have now been joined together underwater by hyperbaric tie-ins. The completed pipeline through the Baltic Sea will now be prepared for connection to the landfalls in Russia and Germany later in the summer. Th
Aker Solutions’ geo business has signed a three-year frame agreement with Eni Norge AS to supply sub-surface consultancy services within the areas of geology, geophysics, petrophysics, reservoir technology, well site and operations geology. Contract value is undisclosed. The agreement is valid a per
L&N have appointed Jason Craig as their new Welding Engineer and launch new Welding Development Services. Jason has spent the past ten years employed by a local metallurgy laboratory having spent the past 5 years in the position of Welding Services Manager. Jason will now be responsible for developi
A&P Group has won a contract with an important new client, P&O Maritime Services, carrying out conversion work on the company’s impressive European Supporter cable-laying vessel. The Group’s Hebburn yard has carried out numerous repairs and refurbishments for P&O Ferries but this is their first comm
Expro announces a major new investment programme that will reinforce the group’s leading position as a supplier of innovative technology and specialist services to the upstream oil and gas sector. The programme includes expanding the group’s established fleet of Subsea Safety Tools and Well Test Pac
Following his success in receiving the South West Director of the Year title, Neil has now been named as a finalist for the 2011 UK Director of the Year Award (small & medium company category). This category is for directors of companies with 250 or fewer employees. The awards ceremony takes place o
Viper Subsea won the award for brand at the Media Innovation Awards. During their rebranding in 2010, Viper Subsea worked with, and through, The Design Programme to help define the business branding needs. Bath agency Mytton Williams were subsequently selected as design agency for the entire re-bran
OSD-IMT, the UK arm of Offshore Ship Designers, has been chosen by Samsung and Boskalis-SMIT Engineering to develop the basic design, detailed design and production drawings for a 99 m cable laying vessel. Neil Patterson, managing director of OSD-IMT, says, “This project illustrates perfectly the st
Aker Solutions has secured a contract for subsea compression topside modifications of the Åsgard A and B platforms with Statoil. The contract value is approximately NOK 650 million. The purpose of the modification is to supply electricity to the Åsgard subsea compressor units, which will be installe
Jason Bennett has joined TITAN Salvage as commercial director, reporting to company Vice President Rich Habib. He is domiciled in TITAN’s United Kingdom (UK) facility at Newhaven, East Sussex. As a member of the company’s senior management team, Bennett will help shape strategic, operational and com
Dolphin Geophysical AS has signed a contract with Lundin Norway AS for the acquisition of more than 600 km2 of 3D seismic data in the Barents Sea. The survey will be acquired by the Artemis Arctic and is estimated to commence in early August. “We are very pleased to be the chosen contractor by Lundi
In line with Tritech’s policy of continuous product development the Eclipse Multibeam Sonar system has undergone major software and partial hardware redevelopment, which encompasses the following updates: * The standard depth rating is now 1000m * Eclipse no longer has Profiling/ bathymetry capabili
Kongsberg Maritime’s next generation multibeam echosounder the EM 2040 is now available with the HUGIN 1000 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle – AUV. With improved resolution and depth rating of 6000 metres, this provides a substantial improvement from the EM 2000 used in deep-water HUGIN versions up to
