Subsea
Wood Group Changes Executive Leadership Team
Wood Group has announced changes to its executive leadership team. Andrew Stewart has been appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of the Asset Life Cycle Solutions (ALCS) business in the Western region and Michele McNichol has been appointed to the new role of executive president – integration, eff
Highlights of the week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (April 24– April 30). TechnipFMC has been awarded a contract by an affiliate of ExxonMobil for the engineering, manufacture and delivery of the subsea equipment for the proposed Liza deep-water project
Jan De Nul Splashes Another Newbuild in China
Jan De Nul’s new multipurpose vessel ‘Daniel Bernoulli’ has been launched from the slipway at the AVIC shipyard in China. It is the sister vessel of the recently launched ‘Adhémar de Saint-Venant‘. Several different equipment sets can be installed on the vessels, which will provide them with a capac
BP Boost Subsea Imaging to Find More Oil in GoM Field
BP said it has identified more than 200 million barrels of additional resources at its Atlantis field in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico by using the so-called Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) seismic imaging technology. Geophysicists at BP’s Subsurface Technical Center have enhanced the clarity of images
ASV Strengthens USA Team with New VP/GM
Autonomous vessel technology developer ASV Global informed that Larry Karl has joined the company’s USA team as vice president / general manager. He will be responsible for ASV Global’s engineering, sales, and operations efforts in North America. Karl joins ASV Global from Oceaneering’s Advanced Tec
Flintstone Introduces New Subsea Tensioned Mooring System
Flintstone Technology has developed a new subsea tensioned mooring system that will officially launch at OTC on May 01. The new system provides simple connection and disconnection, along with the ability to tension at the seabed or mid-line. Flintstone, which was recently majority acquired by MacGre
Forum Ups Revenue, Trims YoY Loss for Q1 2017
Forum Energy Technologies recorded net loss in the first-quarter 2017 of $16 million, or 16 cents per diluted share, compared to net loss of $23 million, or 25 cents per diluted share, for the prior-year period. Sequentially, net loss widened from $13 million, or 14 cents per diluted share. The Hous
NPD Appoints AGR as Its Well and Drilling Specialist Advisor
AGR has been appointed as well and drilling specialist advisor to Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. AGR will deliver advice to support evaluation of drilling programmes, well design and testing, completions and plugging and abandonment. The two-year scope of work has the option to be extended for an
BW Catcher FPSO Named at Keppel Shipyard
Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) has held a naming ceremony for the BW Offshore’s new floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, the BW Catcher. Upon its completion, BW Catcher will be on a 7-year fixed term and 18 years of options contract with Premier Oil and will be deployed t
Halliburton, Trendsetter and C-Innovations in GoM Subsea Pact
Halliburton, Trendsetter Engineering and C-Innovations have formed a strategic alliance to provide integrated offshore well intervention packages in Gulf of Mexico. The alliance leverages the companies’ subsea solutions for hydraulic interventions. It believes that these combined packages will impro
Bourbon Wins FLOATGEN Mooring Installation Job
French offshore services provider Bourbon has been awarded a contract for the mooring installation of the first floating wind turbine in France at the experimental test site of SEM-REV managed by Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN), in the context of European project FLOATGEN. FLOATGEN is a wind turbine
Shearwater to Start 3D Acquisition in North Africa
Shearwater has signed a one month contract with an undisclosed client for a 3D marine acquisition survey offshore North Africa. The contract will start promptly and will be performed by Polar Marquis while en-route from India to the North Sea. “In combination with the successfully completed ONGC con
Island Crown to Support OceanGate’s Titanic Expedition
Island Offshore has entered into an agreement with OceanGate Expeditions for the use of Island Crown as support vessel during the first manned submersible expedition to the wreck of the RMS Titanic since 2005. The assignment should start in May 2018 and will have a duration of 10 weeks for Island Cr
Maritime Link Cables Ready for Installation
The first of North America’s two submarine electricity cables has arrived in Atlantic Canada onboard the cable laying vessel the Skagerrak. Integral to Emera’s Maritime Link Project, these cables each measure 170 km and weigh 5,500 tonnes . The first cable was manufactured in Halden, Norway, while t