Operations & Maintenance
AirAsia Plane’s Fuselage Located
The National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) Republic of Indonesia has confirmed to have located the fuselage of QZ8501 with dimensions of approximately 30x10x3 meters and with one wing still attached to it, in the second focused primary area. The discovery of the fuselage was in 3000 meters fro
VBMS Bags Another Wintershall Contract
VBMS, a strategic joint venture of VolkerWessels and Boskalis, has been awarded another contract by Wintershall Noordzee B.V. The scope of work includes the installation, burial, survey and pull-ins of an 18.5km control umbilical which connects the Ravn platform to A6-A, located in the Danish and Ge
McDermott, GE Start ‘io Oil & Gas’ Venture
GE Oil & Gas and McDermott International have launched io oil & gas consulting, a new independent venture to transform the development of front-end solutions for offshore fields. io aims to deliver greater certainty into the design and planning of the offshore oil and gas field and overhaul the curr
Total Starts Production from West Franklin Phase 2
Total has started gas and condensate production from the West Franklin Phase 2 project in the Central Graben area of the UK North Sea. The project will supply 40,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) to the Elgin/Franklin hub. “With the start-up of the West Franklin Phase 2 project, Total co
TPSMI Scores Approved Supplier Status with TOTAL
TPSMI has completed TOTAL EP Diving Safety Management Systems audit to reach approved supplier status. The audit took place towards the end of 2014 and was conducted at the TPSMI’ Africa head office in Congo, where a full review of the processes, facilities and staff competencies was carried out. Th
Petra Energy Sells Stake in Bumi Subsea
Petra Energy Berhad (PEB), a provider of comprehensive range of integrated brown field services for the upstream oil & gas industry, has completed the disposal of the 51% equity interest in Bumi Subsea SDN BHD (BSSB). The company entered into Shares Sales Agreement with Farid Khan bin Kaim Khan (“FK
Industry Joins on Subsea Cable Performance
A collaboration between the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and GnoSys Global Ltd is supporting the development of a new insulation material for power cables to improve their performance in the onshore and offshore renewable energy industries and drive down whole life network costs. New, mo
EMAS On Hold for U.S. IPO
Singapore-listed, Ezra Holdings, has put on hold a plan to list EMAS AMC, Ezra’s subsea services division in the United States, due to unfavourable market conditions, Reuters reports. “Given where the markets are, we have effectively put that on hold,” Eugene Cheng, group chief financial officer of
ESS Wraps Up Westermost Rough Seabed Clearance for DONG
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has successfully completed a boulder clearance and seabed preparation campaign on behalf of DONG Energy. The subsea engineering specialist cleared almost 50,000 boulders and other obstructions from 33 routes spread over a distance of 40km at the Westermost Rough wind farm
Huawei Completes Repeater and Branching Unit Trials
Huawei Marine, a global submarine network provider, announced the successful completion of sea trials for its second-generation Repeater, RPT 1660 R2, and Branching Unit, BU 1650 R2. Both innovative second-generation products were recently tested in the extreme winter conditions of the Atlantic Ocea
Oceaneering Wins Shell Charter Deal
Oceaneering has entered into a two-year, multi-service vessel charter agreement with Shell for use of the Ocean Alliance in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) starting January 1, 2015. The Ocean Alliance is a U.S. flagged vessel built in 2010. It has an overall length of approximately 309 feet (94 meters
ASL in Alaska Ice Studies
ASL Environmental Sciences has a contract for a 3-year metocean-ice study program in Cook Inlet, Alaska for the proposed Alaska LNG Project terminal site. This turnkey metocean program includes program management, a PSO (protected species observer), vessel, HSE lead, data processing and analysis, an
Siemens, Bernhard Schulte Sign Deal for Two New SOVs
Siemens has signed a chartering agreement with ship owner Bernhard Schulte for two new service operations vessels (SOV) to be purpose-built for the long-term service and maintenance operations of the Gemini and Sandbank/Dan Tysk offshore wind power plants in the North Sea. Officials from Siemens and
Deep BV Conducts Borssele Wind Farm Zone Geophysical Survey
Deep BV, a Dutch company specializing in hydrography, geophysics and oceanography, has been awarded a five-year framework agreement to undertake geophysical soil investigations for offshore wind farm zones in the Netherlands. Furthermore, the company has sealed the deal for its first job within the