Spool News

 

OTC: EMAS AMC signs deal with Serimax

May 05, 2014

EMAS AMC have awarded welding specialist Serimax a long-term frame agreement to provide comprehensive welding services for their global spool base operations. EMAS AMC said the global frame agreement will further strengthen its…

Workover-free option restores safety value functionality

Feb 01, 2014

Intermediate spool inserted below the Chrtistmas tree; spool provides a profile for landing the control line hanger and hydraulic penetration to allow control on WCS Safety Valve Weatherford’s Brian Marr…

Viking invests in tensioners

Jan 23, 2014

Offshore support specialist Viking SeaTech has invested in a £1.5 million equipment upgrade.  The overhaul to spoolers, coilers and chain inspection machines brings the company’s stock in line with the latest EU health, safety and environment (HSE) standards…

Dealing with pipeline expansion

Dec 04, 2013

DNV GL has developed a new concept to deal with HPHT pipeline expansion design. Chia Chor Yew explains. Transporting oil and gas through pipelines from high pressure and high temperature (HPHT) reservoirs continues to be a major challenge as the industry pushes into new energy frontiers…

Fugro Chance completes shallow 3D project in GoM

Aug 14, 2013

Fugro Chance Inc. provided three-dimensional (3D) acoustic metrology on a large 36-inch (91 cm) diameter spool piece, despite environmental and logistical challenges. The highly accurate metrology was performed from a platform in Enlace Litoral Tabasco…

Technip contract for Snøhvit

Jul 25, 2013

Technip was awarded a lump sum contract for pipelay and subsea installations for the Snøhvit CO2 Solution project by Statoil. Snøhvit field is located about 140km north-west of Hammerfest, Norway. The project will establish an additional well at a new CO2 injection template…

Reeled pipelay vessel for ultra‐deepwater field developments

May 22, 2013

Reeled pipelay has normally been used in fully developed and matured offshore oil and gas field areas with close proximity to onshore support, onshore logistics, and with short offshore transit distance to onshore spoolbases for loading the pipeline stalks onto the reel…

Global Tubing opens Canadian service center

Mar 28, 2013

Texas-based coiled tubing provider Global Tubing, opened a new service center in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, last month. The1709 sq m facility will house two full indoor service lines, and provide coiled tubing services including spooling, welding…

InterMoor opens Singapore yard

Dec 05, 2012

InterMoorInterMoor opens Loyang mooring equipment yard InterMoor, an Acteon company, has opened its new mooring equipment yard at Loyang offshore supply base in Singapore. The new facility provides mooring equipment storage and an ideal support location for maintenance…

Technip wins GirRI EPIC

Nov 19, 2012

Girassol FPSOTechnip has won an EPIC contract for the second phase of Total E&P Angola's Girassol Resoucres Iniatives (GirRI) project, the company announced on 13 November 2012.Technip will provide project management, engineering, fabrication…

Subsea 7 grabs Gullfaks gig

Nov 12, 2012

Statoil awarded Subsea 7 a $70 million contract for the Gullfaks C Subsea Compression Marine Operations.The contract is for the engineering, installation and commissioning of a 15.5km integrated power service umbilical, a protection structure…

Bredero Shaw

Aug 17, 2012

Bredero Shaw bagged its second contract for the Inpex/Total Ichthys LNG project in Australia. Awarded by McDermott and worth over $100 million, it calls for pipeline coating and related services for the project’s flowlines and tie-in spools.

Big pull for Triton polymer liners

May 27, 2012

Pipeline rehabilitation and life extension specialist Swagelining lay claim to the longest ever single insertion pull length of 1500m while installing polymer liners into pre-constructed subsea pipeline spools. Under contract to Subsea 7…

Oselvar I-spool

Feb 10, 2012

Serimax recently fabricated, field joint coated and hydrotested an 85m pipe-in-pipe I-spool on behalf of Technip for Dong Energy’s Oselvar field in the Norwegian North Sea. The I-spool comprises a 10in Super Duplex pipe, insulated along its length…

Making light work of ultra-deep recovery

Apr 01, 2011

Netherlands-based lightweight fibre specialist DSM Dyneema believes a recent ultra-deepwater recovery operation amply justifies its trademarked claim to have ‘the world's strongest fibre'.A salvage operation on a ship wreck in 3200m of water…

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