Subsea
Renewables Push Briggs Marine’s Revenue
Briggs Marine’s accounts for the year ending March 2016 at Companies House, has shown an annual increase in turnover to £66 million . The company, which supplies a range of services throughout the marine industry, has increased its turnover by £4 million from the previous year, as a result of increa
GE Bags Transocean Service Deal
GE Oil & Gas said it has secured a new contractual service agreement with Transocean valued at approximately $180 million. According to GE, the agreement, signed at the end of 2016, aims to further maximize productivity and lower operating costs for Transocean. The contract will see GE provide condi
PSA Inspects Statoil’s Flexible Pipelines
Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of Statoil at their offices in Stjørdal and the research centre in Trondheim. The objective of the audit was to check that Statoil is fully following up the challenges associated with flexible pipelines and working to understand the di
CNOOC’s Penglai 19-9 Project Begins Production
Chinese oil company, CNOOC, informed that the Penglai 19-9 comprehensive adjustment project has started production. The Penglai 19-9 oil field is located in Bohai Bay which has an average water depth of approximately 30 meters. In addition to fully utilizing the existing facilities of Penglai 19-3 o
General Dynamics Bluefin SandShark AUV Hits the Market
General Dynamics Mission Systems’ autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Bluefin SandShark is now offered on the company’s website to defense, commercial and scientific market. The Bluefin SandShark joins the company’s Bluefin Robotics family of autonomous underwater products. Weighing less than 5 kilo
McDermott Selects Sonardyne Subsea Navigation for Lay Vessel 108
Sonardyne Inc., Houston has supplied acoustically-aided inertial navigation technology for McDermott’s Lay Vessel 108 (LV 108). The Ranger 2 Pro DP-INS system is being used to support touchdown monitoring surveys of submarine cables, umbilicals and pipelines and as an independent position reference
SapuraKencana, Proserv in Asia Pacific Pact
SapuraKencana’s subsidiary, SapuraKencana Technology (SK Technology) and Proserv are joining forces to provide technology services in Asia Pacific. They will jointly provide a range of services across the drilling, production, maintenance and decommissioning market sectors with a strong focus on sub
ACE Winches Reel Drive for Oceaneering’s Prelude Job
ACE Winches, has secured a spooling contract with Oceaneering for Shell’s Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) project. The contract will be the first time ACE Winches’ newly-developed 500te reel drive system is used. The tool is an upgrade of its existing 400te system that has been enginee
Atlantis Sets Up New Division
Tidal energy developer, Atlantis Resources, is establishing a new internal division which will leverage the existing skill set the company said it has accumulated during the progression of its MeyGen tidal power project. Atlantis Energy, as the new division will be known, will initially focus on opp
Oceanteam Strikes Deal with Bond Holders
Norwegian-Dutch offshore service provider, Oceanteam, said it has reached an understanding with its bond holders on the main terms of the bond loan. Namely, the company has been in constructive talks with its banks and its bond holders since its financial restructuring announcement in October 2016.
Seatools Delivers Fish Farm Cleaning Solution for De Maas SMC
On behalf of De Maas SMC, Dutch subsea technology company Seatools completed a feasibility and conceptual design study on a Remotely Operated Mort Collector (ROMoC). The study resulted in an automated mort collection system capable of effectively collecting dead fish in large-scale offshore fish far
Companies Team Up to Inspect Anchors at Bimep Site
Technicians of Demoliciones Submarinas, IHCantabria and UnderOceans worked together on the inspection of the anchorage systems of various experimental and beacon buoys in the Bimep test site. This site, located in Armintza (Vizcaya) and owned by the Basque Government, is an infrastructure designed t
Searcher Starts 3D Project in Papua New Guinea
Searcher Seismic has initiated a 3D reprocessing project offshore Papua New Guinea. The project comprises reprocessing existing open-file 3D datasets with a modern broadband de-ghosting and pre-stack depth migration sequence. “As we’ve seen with our 2D seismic projects, reprocessing of legacy data i
Vikoma Appoints Projects Director
Oil spill response specialist, Vikoma, has welcomed Richard Hill back to its sales team as projects director. Hill started his oil spill career as an apprentice at Vikoma and progressed through the commissioning team to become a regional sales manager, before developing his experience elsewhere in t