One of the largest subsea construction vessels in the world has arrived in Aberdeen on Thursday to collect the Ithaca Vorlich Mid Water Arch (MWA) project, fabricated by Global Energy Group’s South Fabrication Division. The load out was the final chapter for the company, completing a nine month proj
Well-Safe Solutions has bee awarded a contract to decommission up to twenty-one wells on the Schooner and Ketch fields in the UKCS, operated by DNO North Sea (ROGB). The Schooner and Ketch fields, located in the UK Southern North Sea, ceased production in August 2018, with 20 platform wells and a si
DeepGreen Metals and Allseas Group have formed a strategic partnership, bringing DeepGreen’s expertise in exploring for high-grade metals obtained from seafloor polymetallic nodule deposits together with Allseas’ offshore engineering capabilities. DeepGreen recently engaged Macquarie Capital and Fea
Baker Hughes, a GE company, has inaugurated its multimodal facility (MMF) for oil and gas in Luanda, Angola. The facility, with its additional capabilities across multiple product lines, will deliver a suite of products and services across the oil and gas value chain. It will serve as a hub to suppo
Oceaneering International has secured a contract to perform the first-ever deepwater Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) survey in Mexican waters. The geophysical survey will be performed for BHP at its Trion development. Oceaneering will use the DP-2 Ocean Investigator, equipped with their OS-VI AU
Total has started up production from the Culzean gas condensate field located 230 kilometers off the coast of Aberdeen, in the UK. With a plateau production of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, Culzean will account for around 5% of the UK’s gas consumption, bringing to 18% the proportion of
Subsurface Imaging, part of CGG’s Geoscience division, has been awarded a contract by Equinor for the processing of seismic data from the Johan Sverdrup Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (PRM) system in the North Sea. Managed out of CGG’s Oslo office and located inside Equinor’s offices in Stavanger, a
The UXO consultancy firms NjordIC and UXO Intelligence have agreed to join forces and resources for desk studies and historical research. The cooperation covers the global UXO market with exception of the Dutch waters. “Thanks to our combined network, experience, commitment and impressive amount of
Rockland has teamed up with Big Blue Ocean Cleanup (BBOC), one of the world’s leading independent ocean cleanup non-profit foundations. BBOC prevents and removes ocean pollution to minimise the effects of human development. As a specialist in the design and manufacture of oceanographic research inst
Synaptec has partnered with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult in a project to reduce both the high costs of subsea cable failures and the instrumentation systems required to monitor them all. Synaptec’s Refase technology will be installed at ORE Catapult’s 7MW Levenmouth Demonstration Tur
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has conducted a chemical analyses of sulphides and manganese crusts from the Norwegian shelf and revealed that the sulphides contain a high content of copper, zinc and cobalt. The sulphis contains mostly contain iron, but also have a relatively high content of cop
Kraken Robotic Systems has established a new 4,000 square foot facility named the Unmanned Maritime Vehicles Facility (UMVF). The UMVF is located at the Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship (COVE) in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Kraken’s Handling Systems Group has already moved into the new loc
Jadestone Energy has started a riserless light well intervention (RLWI) campaign at the Montara complex, offshore Australia. The Sapura Constructor light well intervention vessel was mobilized to the field and, after conducting pre-work safety checks, is now operating at the Skua-11 well. The progra
National Oilwell Varco has sold two 20,000-psi (20K) blowout preventer (BOP) stacks to Transocean, becoming the first oil field equipment manufacturer to design, engineer and sell such a package. NOV’s 20K BOP stack is designed to optimize uptime and reduce unplanned stack pulls, reaffirming the com
