Subsea
Wood Group Nets Wintershall Norge Contract
Wood Group has been awarded a new frame agreement by Wintershall Norge to tender for provision of modification and maintenance services to assets in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The four-year frame agreement, which has two three-year extension options and is effective immediately, will be
Cyprus to Send Gas to Egypt via Subsea Pipeline
Cyprus has signed an agreement concerning the transport of natural gas to Egypt via a direct subsea pipeline. The deal was signed in Nicosia on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 by the minister of energy, commerce, industry and tourism of the Republic of Cyprus, Georgios Lakkotrypis, and the minister of pe
Clinton Marine Wins Konti-Skan Interconnector Survey
Clinton Marine Survey has been awarded a cable tracking project between Sweden and Denmark. The survey includes cable tracking, ROV video, multibeam, and sidescan sonar on the link. The water depth is ranging between 0 meters to 80 meters and has been conducted with the company’s two survey vessels
STR Acqures Rights to Remontec’s Cable Counter Tech
Great Yarmouth-based Subsea Technology & Rentals (STR) has acquired the product rights to Remontec’s cable counter technology. Under the terms of the agreement, STR now own the design and copyright covering all Remontec’s T- Count Cable Counter range and has started a manufacturing and product devel
Diving Ops Underway to Clean Up Transocean Winner Debris
Divers have located around 40 pieces of debris around the site at Dalmore Bay, on the Isle of Lewis, where the Transocean Winner drilling rig originally grounded on August 8. They are currently working to recover the debris which ranges from laptop size to scaffolding poles with one piece which is t
Island Offshore, Centrica Scoop ONS 2016 Innovation Award
Island Offshore/Centrica were among announced winners of the ONS 2016 Innovation Awards, at the Innovation Awards Ceremony Tuesday, August 30. Island Offshore and Centrica were selected winners of the Innovation Award, (for large companies), for the innovative system riser-less coil tubing drilling.
NPD Spotlights Åsgard Subsea Compression Technology
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has awarded its improved oil recovery (IOR) prize for 2016 to the licensees of the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea for their subsea wet gas compressor. This will yield almost 50 million standard cubic metres (306 million barrels of oil equivalent) in addit
Wood Group Lands DONG Energy Deal
Wood Group has been awarded a new engineering services framework agreement by DONG Energy, to support their oil & gas assets across the Danish, Norwegian and UK continental shelves. Front end development, maintenance and modifications, engineering, and late life and decommissioning services, for bot
Statoil Starts Up Gullfaks Satellite
Statoil’s Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen (GRD) field came online, below budget and ahead of schedule, Norwegian oil and gas major informed on Tuesday. The project, previously scheduled for start-up on Christmas Eve this year, is more than NOK 1 billion below the estimate of the plan for development and opera
WATCH: Mariner FSU Parks at Nigg Energy Park
The Mariner B vessel was this weekend safely berthed at Global Energy Group’s Nigg Energy Park, north of Inverness, after completing the 15,800 nautical miles journey from the Samsung construction yard in South Korea. Mariner B, the floating storage unit (FSU) for the Statoil-operated Mariner field
PHOTO: First Shah Deniz 2 Jacket Ready for Installation
A jacket for one of the Shah Deniz Stage 2 platforms has sailed away from the Heydar Aliyev Baku Deepwater Jackets Factory (BDJF) for offshore installation. The transportation, launch, positioning and pile installation activities of the Production and Risers (PR) platform jacket structure are expect
Armada Kraken FPSO on Schedule for North Sea Field
Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M)’s wholly-owned subsidiary Keppel Shipyard is said to be on track to deliver a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to Armada Kraken, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bumi Armada. The naming ceremony of the FPSO, Armada Kraken, took place at Kepp
GC Rieber Sending Polar Empress on Kara Sea Mission
GC Rieber Shipping , through its subsidiaries, has entered into a time charter agreement for seismic acquisition and seismic QC services, with Sovcomflot subsidiary OOO SCF Geo. The agreement will see Norwegian offshore vessels provider utilize its 22-streamer ice-classed vessel Polar Empress. Accor
Wood Group Wins Utgard-Sleipner Subsea Tieback Detailed Design Work
Wood Group has been awarded the detailed design scope of the subsea tieback from the Utgard gas and condensate field to the Sleipner facilities, in the Norwegian North Sea. The $1-million workscope is the first call off under the master service agreement (MSA) signed in May 2016. Effective immediate