The Galoc Production Company (“GPC”), operator of the Galoc oil field offshore Palawan in the Philippines, advises that the Galoc Joint Venture has approved the commencement of Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) in support of the planned Phase II development of the field and the acquisition of
Viking Moorings, a provider of total mooring solutions to the offshore oil and gas industry, announced that it has signed a two-year agreement with Norwegian company, Deep Sea Anchors (DSA) AS to supply its industry leading deep water ‘torpedo’ anchors to mooring installations worldwide. The announc
Ciena® Corporation the network specialist, announced that Reliance Globalcom, the leading global provider of managed network and communication services for multinational enterprises and carriers, completed an upgrade of its FNAL submarine network with Ciena’s market-leading coherent 40G optical netw
FMC Technology, a Houston, TX based oil and gas services and manufacturing firm, is expanding its Scottish operations in Bellshill and Dunfermline and creating 240 new jobs, Scotland’s Enterprise Minister Fergus Ewing announced. On a visit to the company’s base in Bellshill, south east of Glasgow, t
Specialist in marine engineering, equipment and aquaculture, Gael Force Group, has launched its innovative SeaLimpet floating gravity-based mooring device for the subsea and renewables sectors and announces the completion of its first contract. The SeaLimpet is a cylindrical concrete structure with
Alan Brunnen and Tove Røskaft will both take a seat at the executive management team of Aker Solutions following a restructuring of the company’s business area Subsea. Mads Andersen who has headed Subsea leaves the company after eight years in the same executive team. Alan Brunnen has headed up Aker
Recently Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg visited the Havila-ship Seven Havila from Herøy while the ship was in Randaberg. Afterwards he told Stavanger Aftenblad that he has learned a lot from the visit and that he never earlier have been aboard a offshore-vessel as big as this. Seven Havila is the w
Schlumberger today announced at the Offshore Europe 2011 Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition the combining of its fishing and intervention services, which will be delivered through SERVCO services. The new service organization will offer fishing and pipe recovery, wellbore departure, wellbore aban
UK based Coastline Surveys Limited, were contracted by Calegeo, a trading division of Calecore Ltd, for a Alcatel Lucent cable burial assessment survey recently broke their own water depth record with their C-Pen40 seabed CPT system. Under the survey a total of 44 CPT’s were completed along the prop
2H Offshore has moved to strengthen its global management team with the appointment of Tim Eyles as its managing director and David Walters as a principal director. The appointments have been made as one of 2H’s founders Steve Hatton leaves Acteon in search of new challenges. Steve was hugely influe
Research underway at the University of Aberdeen using an intrinsically safe tool developed by CorDEX Instruments is set to provide a new model for corrosion assessment to enhance oil and gas safety. The aim of the research is to shed light on how corrosion develops spatially on steel pipelines and v
ConocoPhillips announced today that it will establish a fund related to the incidents at the Peng Lai 19-3 field in Bohai Bay, China. This fund will be designed to address ConocoPhillips’ responsibilities in accordance with relevant laws of China and to benefit the general environment in Bohai Bay.
DNV has developed a protocol to ensure diver safety and weld integrity for the most challenging subsea welding jobs where traditional pressure testing is not possible. The welding of new connections on to operational subsea pipelines as satellite wells are added to increase production in an offshore
The New Bedford Whaling Museum is the backdrop for a free community event “Pioneering New Ocean Science Frontiers” on Saturday, September 17, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., co-sponsored by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. The Whaling Museum is located at 18 J
