Subsea
P2D Awarded Long Term Pipeline Healthcare Contract by Statoil
Pipelines 2 Data (P2D), provider of intelligent pipeline solutions for the oil & gas industry, have achieved a major milestone in Norwegian expansion plans. A long-standing parallel framework agreement has been awarded to the Aberdeen based company by Norway oil giants Statoil to clean and survey th
UC3M Scientists Work on New Tidal Energy Generator Project
Scientists from Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) are participating in a European research project that involves developing a new type of tidal energy generator that will be cheaper and more efficient. The device would replace conventional magnetic materials for new materials that are made usi
SI Ocean Project Provides Review of Current Trends in Wave and Tidal Energy
SI Ocean project published a study on the extent to which the wave and tidal energy sectors will meet their 2020 objectives and how it will be in direct proportion to the political will to implement the right mechanisms for advancing existing technologies. The Wave & Tidal Energy Strategic Technolog
Ramboll Foundation Appoints New Chairman
Ramboll Foundation announced that Flemming Bligaard Pedersen will succeed Svend Aage Nielsen as Chairman. Flemming Bligaard Pedersen joined Ramboll as a civil engineer in 1976, and became Group CEO in 1992 until he retired in 2012. He was awarded the European CEO of the year 2011 by an international
Decom North Sea Opens Bookings for Decom Offshore 2014 (UK)
Decom North Sea (DNS) has officially opened bookings for Decom Offshore 2014, which promises to provide in-depth networking for companies of all sizes within the industry. Decom Offshore 2014, a one-day event in Aberdeen, will take place on May 27. The aim of the day, entitled Realising Opportunitie
Lundin Makes Good Results with Johan Sverdrup Appraisal Wells
Lundin Petroleum AB reported that the Johan Sverdrup appraisal wells 16/3-8 S and 16/3-8 S T2, located in the eastern part of PL501, have been successfully completed. Appraisal well 16/3-8 S is located on the Avaldsnes High, in the eastern part of the Johan Sverdrup discovery. The well was drilled a
GAF Brings Innovative Bathymetry Approach
GAF AG has developed and successfully demonstrated a new innovative approach for deriving bathymetry from space. With this method, GAF can generate bathymetric maps covering large areas by simultaneously using differential spectral attenuation and stereo-information from satellite imagery. The appro
Repsol and Indra Develop First of Its Kind Oil Leak Detection System
Spanish oil company Repsol and Indra have joined forces to create HEADS (Hydrocarbon Early Automatic Detection System), an early warning system designed to detect leaks that enables the energy industry to maximise safety in offshore operations. This system represents a significant contribution to th
Caley Delivers A-Frame for Boskalis’ CS Ndurance
Caley Ocean Systems has supplied a high performance, A-frame handling system to Boskalis Offshore for launching trenching vehicles and ploughs from the company’s first ‘N Class’ cable-laying vessel Ndurance. Mounted on the stern of the Ndurance, the Caley A-frame is capable of handling loads of 70 t
Statoil to Use Songa Trym for Permanent Well Plugging on Glitne Field
Statoil has received consent to use the Songa Trym mobile drilling facility for permanent well plugging on the Glitne field. The Glitne oil field lies in blocks 15/5 and 15/6 in the Sleipner area of the Norwegian North Sea, about 40 kilometres north-west of Statoil’s Sleipner East development. Made
PPSA Recruits Jee’s Engineer as Associate Member Director
Jee Ltd, engineering manager, Paul Job has been appointed to the 2014 Board of Directors for the Pigging Products and Services Association (PPSA). Job, who is based in Jee’s Aberdeen office, has been appointed as the PPSA’s Associate Member Director , which will see him working with the board to hel
University of Exeter Supports Development of Wave Energy Industry
Scientists from the University of Exeter have studied how wave energy developers can more accurately measure, and predict the wave conditions within wave energy test sites. The research deployed wave measurement buoys and used wave modelling to show how variations in wave size and strength could be
Energy Giants Join Viper Subsea’s V-SLIM Technology Development
Viper Subsea has signed a Joint Industry Project (JIP) agreement with energy giants BP and Total to further develop its Subsea Line Insulation Monitoring (V-SLIM) technology for identifying and locating cable and connector faults in remote subsea electrical distribution systems. Viper Subsea will ca
MMT’s Stril Explorer Obtains Kongsberg EM2040 Dual Head Multibeam System
MMT Group announced that Kongsberg EM2040 D. A 0.4 x 0.7 degree dual head multibeam system has recently been installed on MMT’s long term charted multipurpose support vessel Stril Explorer. This is a highly developed multibeam echo sounder that combines all of the advanced features of deepwater echo