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Aibel, ABB join forces on wind farms

Oct 07, 2016

ABB and Aibel have agreed a strategic partnership to deliver state-of-the-art offshore wind integration solutions. ABB will focus on its high voltage direct current (HVDC) technology, while Aibel will take turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) responsibility for the design…

Dresser-Rand delivers Appomattox power gen equipment

Sep 29, 2016

Dresser-Rand, part of Siemens Power and Gas Division, recently delivered power generation equipment for a combined cycle power plant (CCPP) for the Shell Appomattox deepwater oil and gas floating production platform. The platform will be…

E-volving umbilicals

Sep 01, 2016

The move towards all-electric subsea facilities will precipitate an evolution in umbilical design. Alan Dobson outlines the challenges and what is already available for the market. Technip Umbilicals R&D Center…

Small and smart

Aug 01, 2016

Power requirements are not always huge, nor are companies – and sometimes smaller can be better. Elaine Maslin reports on work to qualify lower power subsea variable speed drives. The 45kW subsea variable speed drive…

Pipe-in-pipe solutions

Aug 01, 2016

Considerations for pipe-in-pipe designs for high-pressure, high-temperature fields were set out by Subsea 7 engineers at this year’s OTC. Jerry Lee takes a look. Subsea 7’s flowline solutions (from left: bundle…

My WEC for a PTO

Jul 01, 2016

Coming up with wave energy concepts has not been a problem in this nascent industry. Creating power take off (PTO) systems for wave energy appears to have been less easy.  As a result, the University of Edinburgh is leading a project…

GE completes connector qualification

Jun 08, 2016

GE Oil & Gas has completed the qualification of its upgraded 36kV high voltage wet mate connector. MECON WM 36/500 is designed to offer greater reliability and predictability in subsea power system connections, and can be used with equipment such as transformers…

Cutting the umbilical

Dec 01, 2015

Eliminating the umbilical has been targeted as a way to help make the exploitation of small pools more viable. Elaine Maslin reports on a string of new technologies which aim to do just that. An Exnics collar…

Chevron onstream at Lianzi

Nov 02, 2015

Chevron subsidiary Chevron Overseas (Congo) began oil and gas production from the Lianzi Field, the company’s first cross-border project between the Republic of Congo and the Republic of Angola, offshore Africa. Map of Lianzi…

Wärtsilä awarded two LNG vessel contracts

Aug 31, 2015

South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has placed two contracts with Wärtsilä for seawater/propane based regasification modules. The systems are to be installed on FSRU (Floating Storage and Regasification Unit) vessels owned by Höegh LNG…

FMC, OneSubsea win Shah Deniz work

Jun 22, 2015

Two additional contracts have been awarded for the Shah Deniz Stage 2 project, offshore Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea, some 100km south of Baku, operator BP announced. FMC Kongsberg Subsea won a US$297 million contract for the supply of the subsea production system hardware…

Siemens installs 7 MW offshore wind turbine prototype

May 19, 2015

The new Siemens offshore flagship wind turbine of the type SWT-7.0-154 has now been installed as a prototype. The prototype installed in Østerild, Denmark. Image from Siemens. The…

AspenTech unveils aspenONE

May 04, 2015

Aspen Technology, Inc. announced the general availability of aspenONE Engineering and aspenONEManufacturing and Supply Chain Version 8.8 software. Developed for firms in the oil, gas, chemicals, engineering and construction and other process industries…

DeepOcean nets Maria prep work

Apr 10, 2015

Netherlands headquartered subsea services firm DeepOcean has been awarded the riser installation contract for the Kristin and Heidrun platforms by Statoil. The modification of the two platforms is required in preparation of a possible…

ABB gets Johan Sverdrup power supply work

Mar 16, 2015

Statoil, on behalf of the Johan Sverdrup partnership, awarded a US$133.5 million contract to ABB for land-based power supply to phase 1 of the Johan Sverdrup field development. The Johan Sverdrup concept…

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