Subsea
JFD Boosts Team
JFD has appointed Valerio Percoco as sales director. The appointment follows the company’s contract win with NATO, as well as the merger of James Fisher Defence, Divex and the National Hyperbaric Centre. Valerio Percoco joins JFD from Offshore Installation Services (OIS), the subsea integrated proje
UTEC Survey Names New Head of Finance
UTEC Survey, an Acteon company, has appointed Caroline McGovern as its new Head of Finance. Before joining UTEC, Caroline was the CFO for MOL Energy UK where she was a founding director of the business which grew to comprise ownership of 20 North Sea exploration and production licenses. Prior to tha
Kraken Secures $500K Canada Backing
Kraken Sonar’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Kraken Sonar Systems Inc., will receive a non-refundable financial contribution of up to $495,000 from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). In addition to technical and business advisory services provided b
Mine Countermeasures Delegation Visits Saab Seaeye
An international group of defence and civilian specialists in mine countermeasures visited Saab Seaeye’s UK facility. The group, that included the Deputy Director of The NATO Underwater Research Centre, saw a range of existing and newly developed underwater robotic vehicles used in searching for, di
Ardyne Enters P&A Market, Acquires Wellbore
New oilfield services company Ardyne has been launched with £50 million backing from O&G-focused private equity company, Lime Rock Partners. Aberdeen-based, Ardyne will specialize in the provision of downhole products and services for plug and abandonment (P&A) and slot recovery operations in the oi
Frontica Scoops Aker Solutions Deal
Frontica has signed a five-year contract with Aker Solutions to deliver staffing services, IT services and consultancy projects as well as business support services within HR, finance and procurement. Under the terms of the contract, Frontica will also contribute to productivity improvements and cos
Diamond Offshore, GE in Subsea BOP Service Agreement
Diamond Offshore Drilling and GE Oil & Gas signed contractual service agreement (CSA) that transfers full accountability for BOP performance to GE Oil & Gas. In this Pressure Control by the Hour model, Diamond Offshore will compensate GE Oil & Gas only when the BOP is available. The 10-year collabor
Fair Head Tidal Project Works to Begin in 2018
Fair Head Tidal is planning to submit a marine licence application this summer for the proposed 100MW tidal energy scheme located off the north Antrim coast of Northern Ireland, near Ballycastle. The team behind the Fair Head Tidal Energy Park, a joint venture between Cork-based DP Energy and Bluepo
Acteon Field Life Service Introduced
Subsea services company Acteon has launched a new service, Acteon Field Life Service (FLS). Acteon FLS offers a “joined-up” approach to the capex and opex challenges presently being experienced by the industry, the company said. “Our industry, like many others that have already been transformed, req
PPC-1 Subsea Cable Out of Service
TPG, an Australian telecommunications provider, has informed its customers about the Sydney-Guam submarine cable outage. According to the company’s update, submarine line card of the PIPE Pacific Cable 1 (PPC-1) cable system has lost its payload. The company discovered the fiber fault approximately
Vroon Gets VOS Sugar
Vroon Offshore Services has taken delivery of a 68-metre subsea support vessel (SSV) VOS Sugar. The vessel was handed over to the company in a short ceremony held on February 02, 2016 at Fujian Southeast Shipbuilding in China. VOS Sugar is a DP2, SPS-coded, vessel and the first of two newbuilding SS
Balltec Delivers Plug Launcher for Åsgard Pipeline Project
Balltec Engineered Solutions has completed work on Statoil’s infrastructure upgrade for the Åsgard Millom pipeline using its subsea smart plug launcher. Statoil asked Balltec to investigate the possibility of designing and manufacturing a subsea plug launcher during its work on a new lifting system
Port Macquarie Artificial Reef One Step Closer
The Port Macquarie Artificial Reef loadout was completed last week and the vessel Leaders Creek from Polaris and its barge load of reef modules arrived in Port Macquarie. The purpose built reef will be installed 6km off the River mouth providing recreational anglers with access to new habitat and en
Production Starts from Laggan and Tormore Fields
Total has started-up production from the Laggan and Tormore gas and condensate fields, located in 600 meters of water in the West of Shetland area. The fields will produce 90,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d). “Laggan-Tormore is a key component of our production growth in 2016 and beyond