Subsea
Archer Knight Bags Total Contract
Aberdeen-based market intelligence and subsea consultancy, Archer Knight, has secured two commercial support contracts for Total E&P UK Limited. The contracts will see Archer Knigh’s commercial team support the implementation of new terms and conditions with suppliers following the Maersk Oil acquis
Subsea UK: Last Call for 2019 Award Nominations
Industry body, Subsea UK has issued a final call for entries ahead of its 2019 business awards. The awards recognise companies and individuals who are leading the way in Britain’s £9-billion subsea sector. Entries are being sought for the subsea company of the year (large and small), the most promis
Claxton to Work on Deep Panuke Decom Project
Claxton has won a contract to provide high-pressure riser and abrasive jet cutting services to the Deep Panuke decommissioning project offshore Canada. The gas field is about 250 km southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the Scotian Shelf. Deep Panuke field ceased production in May 2018 and the opera
DeepOcean Wins OZ Gig
DeepOcean has been awarded a contract within the oil and gas sector for the provision of post-lay trenching services along 65-kilometer umbilical offshore Australia. The post-lay trenching works are planned to start late 2018 with the T1 trencher. This contract award has come on the back of three co
Edvard Grieg Job for Rosenberg WorleyParsons
Lundin Norway and its licence partners in PL338 are awarding Stavanger-based Rosenberg WorleyParsons contract for modification work on the Edvard Grieg platform in the North Sea. The contract should provide work for 150 people. The objective of the modification is to prepare the platform to receive
Siccar Point Hires Crondall for Cambo Field Support
Crondall Energy, the floating production and subsea specialist, has secured a frame agreement contract with Siccar Point Energy to provide support on the Cambo field, West of Shetland. Support will initially cover the identification and evaluation of FPSO options for the development and pre-FEED tec
Irish Sea Contractors Roll Out Subsea Cable Repair Solution
Subsea engineering services firm Irish Sea Contractors has launched a new, patented, in-house developed subsea power cable repair solution and in-house subsea jointer training programme. This innovative technology addresses the challenges of lifting subsea cables to the deck of the cable ship for re
ACCIONA Developing AUVs for SWARMs Project
The SWARMs European project, of which ACCIONA is a member, is developing vehicles capable of performing complex tasks in underwater environments autonomously, i.e. without the need for human intervention, using Artificial Intelligence. The use of this type of underwater autonomous vehicles will redu
Kongsberg Upgrade for Stena Carron Drillship
Stena Drilling has contracted Kongsberg Maritime to deliver a complete upgrade of its systems aboard the Stena Carron drillship. Stena Carron is due to dock this November for scheduled 10-year maintenance, during which new K-Pos Dynamic Positioning, K-Chief Automation, K-Thrust Thruster Control and
McDermott Starts Tyra Redevelopment Fabrication
McDermott International has held a first steel-cutting ceremony at its fabrication yard in Batam, Indonesia, to mark the start of fabrication for the Tyra Redevelopment project. “As the project continues to progress with the completion of engineering, we are moving ahead with fabrication in full com
Oil & Gas Technology Centre Names New Industrial Director
The Oil & Gas Technology Centre has appointed a new industrial director to lead the creation of two new national research and development centres based in the North-East of Scotland. Russell Stevenson, who took up the role this month, will work closely with principal academic partners, the Universit
Sonardyne Adds Chelsea
Subsea technology developer Sonardyne has acquired maritime and marine science technology specialist Chelsea Technologies Group. Sonardyne said that this acquisition is part of its long-term growth strategy to diversify into markets where it sees an opportunity to build on its core technology base a
Carlyle Taking Over EnerMech
The Carlyle Group has agreed to acquire the Aberdeen-headquartered mechanical and electrical services specialist EnerMech Group from Lime Rock Partners. The transaction is expected to close in Q4 2018, subject to customary anti-trust and regulatory approvals. Equity for this investment will come fro
UTEC Introduces New AUV Launch and Recovery System
UTEC, a part of Acteon, has recently commissioned its new launch and recovery system (LARS) for a fleet of seven autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), used for seabed surveys in the oil and renewables industries. UTEC’s new LARS is a floating garage that enables an AUV to be launched and recovered w