Subsea
Olympic’s Vessels Get New Contracts
M/V Olympic Triton has been awarded a new contract, firm for one-year plus an additional optional year, up to two years total. The contract was awarded by Demar in Mexico. The vessel will perform subsea and support functions for Demar under contracts with PEMEX for work in the Gulf of Mexico. The ve
Infinera, Telstra Demonstrate PM-8QAM on Submarine Cable
Infinera and Telstra conducted successful demonstration of submarine super-channel technology, which is expected to increase the capacity of a single fiber by 50%. The test, which was conducted across 2,200 kilometers of Segment F of the Reach North Asia Loop (RNAL), included Polarization Multiplexe
DEME Orders Two New Vessels
DEME has ordered two new vessels serving the offshore energy market. Contracts have been signed with shipyards La Naval in Spain and Uljanik in Croatia to build respectively the multipurpose vessel “LIVING STONE” and the self-propelled jack-up vessel “APOLLO”. Both vessels will be delivered in 2017.
EMEC to Host Session at Atlantic Stakeholder Conference
EMEC is hosting a session at the Atlantic Stakeholder Conference in Porto, Portugal next week (Tuesday 20th January 2015). Bringing the key players from European open-water ocean energy test sites together, the session will identify key issues of common interest across marine energy test sites, and
SST Delivers Tool Detection Alarm for Safer Well Intervention
Severn Subsea Technologies (SST) has developed Zone 0 rated, tool detection sensor technology to reduce the risk of damage to the riser assembly during drilling and intervention operations, as the tool string is recovered to the surface. The Tool Detection Alarm (TDA) offers a safer method of locati
Ulstein Verft Names New Sales Manager
Trond Skodjevåg Bø was appointed new Sales Manager in Ulstein Verft on 14 January 2015. He comes from a position as Project Manager Sales in Ulstein Verft. Trond S. Bø has been employed in Ulstein Verft since November 2012. Ulstein is an internationally renowned provider of ship design, shipbuildi
BSEE to Support Oil Spill Research Projects
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) announced this week that it is soliciting proposals for oil spill response research projects and will be investing up to $6 million to support these projects in 2015. In a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), the bureau called for white papers fo
Jee to Highlight Pipeline Integrity at Subsea Expo
Jee Limited’s Paul Otway, winner of Subsea UK Young Emerging Talent award 2013, discusses best practice for the management of pipeline integrity by pigging at Subsea Expo 2015. Otway, a senior engineer at independent subsea engineering and training company Jee Ltd, will draw on his extensive pigging
Infographic: Underwater Cities of the Future
A Japanese company, Shimizu Corporation, has presented OCEAN SPIRAL concept for a deep sea city of the future. The latest plan consists of building a submerged city of concrete, 500m in diameter, with a spherical shell and triangular acrylic plates measuring 50m on each side. The city would initiall
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
SBM Offshore Gets PRN for N’Goma FPSO
SBM Offshore has received formal Production Readiness Notice (PRN) for N’Goma FPSO from client Eni, operator of Block 15/06 on behalf of the Joint Venture which also includes Sonangol Pesquisa e Produção, SSI Fifteen Limited and Falcon Oil Holding Angola SA. Following successful first oil in Novembe
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