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Subsea Expo: Umbilicals expansion in Glasgow

Feb 03, 2016

Surface to seabed specialist, Seanamic Group, is expanding its global umbilicals business with a new Umbilical International facility in Glasgow, the frim revealed at Subsea Expo in Aberdeen. Image from Seanamic Group…

Marathon orders umbilicals for West Brae

Jan 26, 2016

Subsea cables and umbilicals firm JDR has been awarded a contract by Marathon Oil for the design and manufacture of 11.3km of power and static subsea umbilicals with accompanying termination hardware for the West Brae field.   The full…

Second Browse gig for Wood Group

Dec 09, 2015

Wood Group has secured its second front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the proposed Browse floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) Development offshore Western Australia. Under the new contract with Woodside, effective immediately…

Deeper, hotter umbilicals

Dec 01, 2015

Materials technology is being challenged to its limits in the deepwater and high-temperature applications the oil industry is heading into. Technip’s Alan Rutherford outlines work to make umbilicals fit for purpose in this area. Thermoplastic hose…

Technip bags Eni Angola contract

Oct 01, 2015

Technip Umbilicals Ltd. and Angoflex Ltda., Technip subsidiaries, have been awarded a contract by Eni to supply umbilicals to the Block 15/06 East Hub Development offshore Angola. This field is located approximately 350km north of Luanda…

Nexans supplies West Nile Delta umbilicals

Sep 17, 2015

Nexans has been awarded the contract to deliver 48km of static umbilicals to BP, and partner DEA, for the West Nile Delta Taurus Libra project in Egypt. The Taurus Libra development is a subsea project tied in to existing BG Group operated Burullus facilities…

Oceaneering wins Appomattox work

Sep 08, 2015

Oceaneering International has secured a contract from Shell to supply umbilicals for the deepwater Appomattox development located in the Mississippi Canyon area of the US Gulf of Mexico. The order is for electro-hydraulic steel tube control umbilicals…

Umbilicals International invests in cables

Jun 25, 2015

Umbilicals International (UI), part of the Seanamic Group, has invested over US$2 million in new cable manufacturing lines at its Houston production facility. The two lines will streamline cable production, and marks a significant expansion…

Aker gets first Mexico gig

Jun 03, 2015

Saipem awarded Aker Solutions its first order offshore Mexico at the Pemex-operated Lakach deepwater natural gas field. Lakach map. From Pemex. Lakach, Mexico's first subsea gas development with onshore processing facilities…

Carry on carbon

May 01, 2015

Carbon fiber rods are the way forward for providing umbilicals in deepwater applications, according to one leading subsea contractor. John Bradbury explains. Umbilical load out Moss. Photo from Aker Solutions…

Technip wins Glenlivet subsea contract

Feb 24, 2015

Total E&P UK has awarded Technip an additional scope for the parallel development of the Glenlivet field close to the Edradour subsea development, about 75km northwest of Shetlands in the UK North Sea. The Glenlivet scope includes:     fabrication and installation of 12in…

Fast-track umbilicals for Visund

Feb 05, 2015

Statoil's Visund oil and gas field is to benefit from standardized fast-track umbilicals developed by Nexans. The field in the Tampen area of the Norwegian North Sea will be the fifth project to use these standard umbilicals.  The standardized…

Oceaneering lands Stampede umbilicals contract

Jan 21, 2015

Oceaneering International is to provide the umbilicals and umbilical distribution hardware for Hess' Stampede Project in the Green Canyon area of the US Gulf of Mexico. The hardware will be used to transmit hydraulic control fluids, chemicals…

Technip umbilicals

Dec 16, 2014

Technip Umbilicals gives a look at its umbilicals operations. The group has four manufacturing sites: Houston (US), Lobito (Angola) and Tangjung Langsat (Malaysia) and its newest location in Newcastle (UK). Umbilicals form the…

Nexans umbilicals installed at Jack/St. Malo

Dec 11, 2014

Nexans' power umbilicals that integrate HV power supply and umbilical functions within a single cable cross-section were installed for the Chevron-operated Jack/St. Malo gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico. From Nexans…

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