CGG GeoSoftware has announced new releases to its application suites: Jason 9.0, Hampson-Russell 10.0 and Insight Earth 3.0. Jason 9.0 has a new anisotropic inversion tool for analyzing anisotropy for effective well design and optimum production…
Pulse Structural Monitoring (Pulse), an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract with National Oilwell Varco (NOV) Arendal in Norway to provide an acoustic mooring line subsea monitoring system to measure mooring line inclination and tension…
Total and its project partners have deployed the Sonardyne Fusion 6G technology offshore Angola at the Kaombo oil field. Using the technology’s Wideband 2 digital signal architecture, common tasks such as template installation, touch-down…
Halliburton's Wireline & Perforating business has introduced the Xamine Sonic Service, an evolution in acoustic formation evaluation that provides operators with high-fidelity data and advanced processing capabilities to more accurately characterize a wide range of reservoirs…
Proserv CEO David Lamont is keeping his head held high during these depressing market conditions. The executive says he remains optimistic about the North Sea, especially because of the downturn. In fact, during SPE Offshore Europe, he described it as good for the region…
Total, operator of the Egina oil field offshore Nigeria, together with its construction and survey partners, has successfully installed a Fusion 6G subsea positioning network to support its development of the US$15 billion project. Supplied by Sonardyne…
Private equity backed Proserv Group has bought Aberdeen-based subsea acoustic positioning firm Nautronix. Employing 120 people, Nautronix is recognised for its through-water digital acoustic wireless communications and positioning systems…
Image: Integrity eXplorer cement evaluation service/Baker Hughes Baker Hughes announced the commercial release of its Integrity eXplorer cement evaluation service: a change…
At MTS/IEEE OCEANS’15 in Genoa, EvoLogics presented its latest developments with a mobile demonstration kit that combines underwater LBL (Long Baseline) positioning with the company’s unmanned surface vehicle, the Sonobot. The Sonobot…
UK-based distributed acoustic sensing technology firm OptaSense has partnered with Weatherford International to form a strategic alliance to deliver integrated optical sensing solutions designed to optimize well planning, construction and production across the asset lifecycle…
Nautronix's NASNet array in Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen field is now fully operational and awaiting first field construction, the UK-based firm said. Last year, Nautronix secured an order with Subsea 7 to supply 16 NASNet stations along…
Total E&P Congo awarded Fugro a five-year, US$100 million contract for remote operated vehicle (ROV) services and remote subsea tooling in the Moho Nord field offshore Africa. Image of Fugro's FCV 3000 work class ROV system…
Subsea UK has launched a new market intelligence service to help subsea companies exploit global opportunities. The industry body, which represents the UK’s £9billion subsea sector, has developed SubseaIntel – a unique on-line database…
UTEC awarded Sonardyne International Ltd. a multi-million dollar contract to supply Fusion 6G acoustic positioning technology for the Total-operated Moho Nord subsea project, offshore West Africa. Technip’s rigid pipe S-lay and heavy-lift construction vessel…
UTEC was awarded the full survey services contract on the upcoming Technip Moho Nord EPIC project in West Africa. The project, operated by Total E&P Congo, is located approximately 75km off the coast of the Republic of the Congo, at water depths ranging from 650-1100 m…