Trelleborg has secured a contract from JDR Cable Systems to design, manufacture and deliver dynamic cable protection products for the Windfloat Atlantic project. Set for installation off the coast of Portugal in 2019, Trelleborg will provide Distributed Buoyancy Modules (DBM), bend stiffeners and Ur
The subsea operation vessel Southern Star recently arrived at the Anjung gas development project, offshore Sarawak, East Malaysia, and underwent inspections to head up critical shutdown work. The vessel went on hire to Shelf Subsea Solutions on the first of this month and sailed from Johor on Sunday
Oceaneering International has ordered hybrid navigation systems from Sonardyne for its subsea resident vehicles Freedom and E-ROV. The two resident vehicle systems are to be fitted with Sonardyne’s SPRINT-Nav an all-in-one navigational instrument. SPRINT-Nav combines a SPRINT INS sensor, Syrinx 600
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has completed the construction of FibreTrac, the first fibre-rope offshore crane to enter the market. Designed to comply with DNV GL regulations, the FibreTrac crane has a 150-tonne safe working load (SWL) capacity and features an advanced rope monitoring and management
Nexans has been selected to provide power umbilical for a new all-electric actuated multiphase subsea boosting station set to maximize oil recovery from the Equinor’s Vigdis field in the North Sea. Vigdis produces oil through the Snorre field, and OneSubsea, a Schlumberger company, has been awarded
Ashtead Technology has completed its $2-million investment in a new Houston facility as part of its ongoing international growth plans. The new building is three times the size of the previous one and should allow the subsea equipment solutions firm to increase its service lines and capabilities fro
NUI, the Bergen-based Norwegian independent hyperbaric research and test facility, has agreed to purchase two very large hyperbaric pressure chamber systems, with a working pressure of 700 bar and 1 000 bar from Optime Subsea. The hyperbaric chambers delivered by Optime Subsea comes with an inner di
Aker Solutions has launched ix3 – a software and digital services company that enables operators to accelerate field development projects and optimize asset performance. ix3 has created a digital twin platform called Integral that brings together engineering, manufacturing and test data with live-st
Flintstone Technology has delivered an in-line tensioning and pull through connection mooring system for MODEC in West Africa. The system will be deployed on Tullow Oil’s Kwame Nkrumah MV21 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel located on the Jubilee field off the coast of Ghana.
Norwegian technology startup Allianse Innovasjon has become member of the GCE Ocean Technology Cluster. Allianse Innovasjon (AI) has partnered with several companies to provide a more whole approach to solving technology challenges in the ocean sphere. “For us it was natural progression to apply for
Logan Industries (Logan), a hydraulic repair, manufacturing and rental company, has launched a new Passive Heave Compensation Winch. The new Passive Heave Compensation Winch system, a set of winches engineered to provide constant tension through the rated range of motion, is primarily used in subsea
TechnipFMC has been awarded integrated engineering, procurement, construction and installation (iEPCI) contract by BP for the Thunder Horse South Expansion 2 project located in the Gulf of Mexico. TechnipFMC will manufacture, deliver and install subsea equipment, including subsea tree systems, manif
BP has sanctioned development of the Thunder Horse South Expansion Phase 2 project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The project will further boost output at one of the largest oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico and marks BP’s latest major investment in the U.S. offshore region. The project is expected
Subsea Technology & Rentals (STR) and Forssea Robotics have formed a global exclusive partnership. As part of this partnership, STR has invested in Forssea Robotics Visual LOCalisation (V-LOC) Positioning technology, which will be available globally for operations. The V-LOC positioning system is a
