Subsea
Statoil Presents Trestakk Development Plan
Statoil has submitted a Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) of the Trestakk discovery on the Halten Bank to the minister for petroleum and energy, Tord Lien, in Bodø. The discovery, made in 1986, contains about 76 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent, mainly oil. The project will be ti
Seabed Geosolutions to Deliver Manta Seabed System
Seabed Geosolutions has announced the availability of its four-component (4-C) Manta ocean bottom node crew in early Q2 2017. Manta was developed in co-operation with Fugro and combines technologies to provide a cost-effective alternative to high-end streamer data acquisition. The system leverages p
IOG Gets Blythe Hub Seismic Data
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has received initial results from new interpretations of 3D seismic data covering the Blythe Hub licences in the company’s Southern North Sea portfolio. The data, which is being reinterpreted and comprises 250 km² of 3D seismic from the 1990s, has been reprocessed by Sc
JDR’s Member Joins RenewableUK Communication Advisory Group
Tom Nightingale, JDR’s strategy and marketing manager, has been selected to join RenewableUK’s newly-created Communication Advisory Group. The group is being introduced by RenewableUK to act as a better link between its working groups, policy forums and the board. It will advise RenewableUK’s board
GE Oil & Gas Joins Forces with Baker Hughes
GE and Baker Hughes have entered into an agreement to combine GE’s oil and gas business and Baker Hughes to create oilfield technology provider with mix of service and equipment capabilities. The transaction will be executed using a partnership structure, pursuant to which GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hug
Lukoil Starts V. Filanovsky Field Flows
Commercial production at the Vladimir Filanovsky field in the Caspian Sea was launched on Monday by the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The V. Filanovsky field, discovered by Lukoil in 2005, is Russia’s largest oil discovery for the past twenty-five years and the second field com
FMC Technologies Orders SolidCitric Products from Jupa
Jupa, a Norway based company, has been awarded a contract to supply FMC Technologies with SolidCitric products for use on the new CAT-D rig Songa Encourage. Jupa will supply SolidCitric cartridges and associated adapter tooling, and the products will be used for acid cleaning of equipment installed
LiDAR Data Applied for 3D Printing of Subsea Well Part
Fugro and 3D at Depth, a provider of subsea LiDAR systems and solutions, have used subsea LiDAR data to 3D-print an accurate 1:1 physical model of a damaged well part. The subsea part fabrication was part of a larger project conducted in early 2016, using 3D at Depth’s subsea LiDAR SL 2 technology a
Armada Kraken FPSO Starts Offshore Commissioning
The floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Kraken development has completed its shore-based commissioning activities at the quayside in Singapore and has also completed the vessel’s inclination testing programme. The FPSO, named Armada Kraken, has left the yard and is now
Normand Maximus Begins Saipem Charter
Solstad Offshore has taken delivery of the offshore subsea construction vessel “Normand Maximus” through the 25/75 owned affiliate, Maximus Limited, with AGC Maritime Yield Fund I LP from Vard Brattvaag. At the same time, the vessel started its 8-year charter contract with Italian contractor Saipem.
SeaBird Sells Hawk Explorer
SeaBird Exploration has reached an agreement for the sale and decommissioning of the vessel Hawk Explorer. The decommissioning of the vessel is a part of the company’s efforts to reduce cost and adjust fleet capacity to better reflect current market demand, SeaBird explained. The company will retain
Veja Mate Foundations Installation Complete
Foundations installation has been completed on the Veja Mate offshore wind farm on October 27, 2016, Veja Mate Offshore Project GmbH informed. The foundation contractor Offshore Wind Force VM (OWF), part of Boskalis, installed all 67 foundations in the German North Sea by using Scylla jack-up vessel
Lighthouse to Distribute Sound Metrics Sonars
Lighthouse has recently signed an agreement with the American company Sound Metrics for the exclusive distribution in Italy of their line of ARIS Sonars. Based in Bellevue, Washington, from 2002 Sound Metrics designs and manufactures imaging sonars that can be deployed from vessels, ROVs and AUVs. A
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (October 17 – October 23). Saab Seaeye manufactures electric powered remotely operated vehicle (ROV) systems for a wide range of professional applications. The range currently extends from the portable