Subsea
Centrica and Bayerngas Join Forces to Form New E&P Company
Centrica and Stadtwerke München (SWM) have reached an agreement to combine Centrica’s European oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) business with Bayerngas Norge to form a newly incorporated joint venture and create an independent European E&P company. The Joint Venture will have two shareho
Statoil Makes Minor Gas Find in Barents Sea
Statoil and partners ENI and Petoro have made a small gas discovery in the Blåmann well, between the Snøhvit and Goliat fields in the Barents Sea. Recoverable volumes are estimated at 1.5-3 billion standard cubic metres (BCM), approximately 10-20 million barrels of oil equivalent (BOE). The well was
Nova Moves Forward with Bardsey Sound Tidal Energy Project
Nova Innovation has teamed up with renewable energy organisation YnNi Llŷn to develop a tidal energy project at Bardsey Sound (Ynys Enlli) off the Llyn Peninsula in north Wales. The Crown Estate has awarded Nova Innovation an Agreement for Lease for the project which enables them to start fully expl
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (July 10 – July 16). TechnipFMC has shipped water injection umbilicals from its Newcastle manufacturing facility to Total in Africa for the Egina project. The long length umbilicals will be installed a
PHOTO: Subsea 7 Installs Culzean Export Pipe
An export pipeline for the Maersk Oil Culzean field in the UK North Sea has been laid by Subsea 7. According to Maersk Oil’s latest update, Culzean’s export pipeline has been laid safely and on time by Seven Borealis, the 182-meter pipelay and heavy lift vessel. Subsea 7 secured the subsea, umbilica
Wasco Begins Concrete Weight Coating Nord Stream 2 Pipes
Nord Stream 2 contractor Wasco Coatings Germany has begun concrete weight coating pipes for the project in the port of Mukran on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen. Up to 90,000 pipes will be coated by the end of 2018 at the location. Currently 39,000 pipes are already at a specially prepared storage ar
Carbon Trust’s OWA Subsea Inspection Competition Open
The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), a collaborative RD&D programme funded by nine offshore wind developers and the Scottish Government, has launched a competition targeted at finding new ways to inspect offshore wind substructures and reduce the cost of offshore wind. The competition
Briggs Marine Invests in New Diving Equipment
Briggs Marine Contractors has made a six-figure investment into its diving division’s capabilities with the purchase of a dual basket diver launch and recovery system (LARS). The system was manufactured by Submarine Manufacturing Products (SMP). It has been built and maintained to International Mari
Bibby Offshore Finalizes Decom Contract with Maersk Oil UK
Bibby Offshore has completed a contract awarded by Maersk Oil UK to provide both late life production enhancement and decommissioning support in the North Sea. The contract saw Bibby Offshore’s diving support vessel Bibby Polaris operate at two separate locations, undertaking production system isola
TWI to Develop Underwater Laser Cutting for Decommissioning
Research and technology organisation TWI has started a new project to reportedly advance the decommissioning of offshore structures. Namely, TWI is developing decommissioning technology for use in deep and hazardous waters. This will consist of a laser cutting solution that can be deployed remotely
SeaRenergy to Provide QHSE Services for ZTT
SeaRenergy has secured a contract from cable manufacturer ZTT to provide QHSE services for the HVAC export cable connection between BorWin Gamma platform and Hohe See offshore wind farm. The scope for QHSE management and support includes the cable load-out, cable transport and installation phase of
MMT and Reach Bolster ROV Survey Services Portfolio
Swedish survey specialist MMT and Norwegian contractor Reach Subsea have secured the DP2 subsea vessel M/V Olympic Delta, with two ROVs mobilised onboard, for execution of the project announced earlier this year. The project has been postponed from June 2017 until August same year, the Oslo-listed R
Boskalis-Van Oord JV Bags Nord Stream 2 Rock Placement Job
Royal Boskalis Westminster has been awarded a letter of intent (LoI) in joint venture with Van Oord for rock placement services for the Nord Stream 2 project. The award was made by the project developer Nord Stream 2 AG and is a part of the construction of the planned twin 1,200 kilometer gas pipeli
ECA Group to Supply PAP Subsea Demining Robots for French Navy
ECA Group has been awarded a five-year contract by French Ministry of Armed Forces for the supply of consumables for French Navy PAP demining remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The value of the contract is over EUR 4 million up to a maximum of EUR 8 million depending on utilization frequency. The Fr