Subsea
BHGE and W&T Partner on 14 GoM Projects
W&T Offshore and Baker Hughes, a GE company, (BHGE) have entered a strategic partnership related to W&T’s joint exploration and development program. The project utilizes a commercial model that consolidates BHGE engineering, products and services expertise. W&T’s joint exploration and development pr
Management Changes at NOC
Kevin Forshaw, Associate Director Enterprise and Research Impact, will be leaving the National Oceanography Centre on July 20. He will take up a position with the University of Plymouth, as Director of Industrial and Strategic Partnerships within the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Forshaw will
DOF Subsea Secures Work for Its Vessels in Asia Pacific
DOF Subsea has secured several contracts in the Asia Pacific region, securing utilization for vessels in the Subsea/IMR segment. The Skandi Hercules multi-purpose vessel has been awarded short-term contracts for survey and intervention services in Australian waters. In addition, the vessel will also
Boskalis Integrates Offshore Units Under Single Brand Name
Boskalis has presented its integrated service portfolio for the offshore energy market under one single brand name. As a result, Dockwise, Fairmount and VBMS, subsidiaries of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., will continue to offer their services under the brand name Boskalis. The Dutch marine servic
Well-Safe Introduces Five P&A Clubs
Well-Safe Solutions said it has now set up five different P&A clubs to reduce the cost of well plug and abandonment, following interest by operators in the North Sea. The P&A club concept, launched recently by the Aberdeen-based well abandonment specialist, introduces a new commercial model that tac
Wellbarrier in Holistic Well Integrity Deal with VNG Norge
Wellbarrier has secured an agreement with VNG Norge to create a holistic well integrity value chain solution to safeguard oil and gas wells worldwide. The joint project, Agreement for Joint Industry Research, Development and Demonstration Project (JIP), will apply a digital solution to enhance well
Scotland Backs New Decommissioning Centre of Excellence
The Oil & Gas Technology Centre has been awarded grant funding of £1.9 million from the Scottish Government’s Decommissioning Challenge Fund to invest in the recently-announced National Decommissioning Centre of Excellence in partnership with the University of Aberdeen. Paul Wheelhouse MSP, Scottish
Vard to Build Prysmian Cable Layer
Italian subsea cables specialist Prysmian has selected Vard, a Fincantieri shipbuilding company, for the design and construction of its new cable laying vessel. The contract value, including owner supplied special equipment, amounts to approximately € 170 million (approximately NOK 1.6 billion). The
PGS Loses ‘Polar Duchess’ Case Against GC Rieber
Bergen district court has again dismissed claims of €9 million from PGS UK (former Arrow Seismic) against GC Rieber Shipping’s subsidiary Armada Seismic Invest II in connection with the delivery of 3D seismic vessel Polar Duchess. To remind, in 2012 Arrow alleged that Armada had acted negligently wh
Saipem Kicks Off Sverdrup Pipelaying Ops
Saipem’s vessel Castorone has started operations to install Norway’s largest pipeline to the Johan Sverdrup field. The 36-inch pipeline, which will extend more than 280 kilometers out to the Johan Sverdrup field once installed, is being pulled through a pre-drilled hole at the bottom of the Fensfjor
IODP Gears for Another Expedition
The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) has been scheduled to begin Expedition 376, “Brothers Arc Flux: Gateway to the subarc mantle: volatile flux, metal transport, and conditions for early life” aboard the JOIDES Resolution on May 5, 2018. This expedition will drill and log three sites: t
Kraken Names Chief Scientist
Kraken Robotics Systems has appointed Dr. Jeremy Dillon as the company’s chief scientist. As an original member of Kraken’s Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) team, Dillon developed the signal processing algorithms for the AquaPix SAS imaging and bathymetry software. He also invented Kraken’s AquaTrak C
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (April 23 – April 29). This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Subseaworldnews. Mcdermott Rejects Subsea 7 Takeover Proposal https://subseaworldnews.com/20
McDermott in Two New Diving Projects
McDermott has secured a contract to provide air and saturation diving services for two projects. The first project will see McDermott remove and replace a single 24 inch (61 centimeters) subsea hose string to a single buoy mooring (SBM) and pipeline end manifold (PLEM) for Southern Africa’s crude oi