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Fugro to install subsea power cable in Australia

Jul 17, 2017

SA Power Networks has awarded Fugro a contract to install a subsea power cable in South Australia. REM Etive. Image from Fugro. The new 20,000 kVA/33,000 volt cable will replace the existing 10…

Moving toward all-electric

Jun 01, 2017

Elaine Maslin dives deeper into the all-electric subsea equation. The K5F-3 subsea all-electric Xmas tree from OneSubsea.Photo from TEP NL (Total E&P Netherlands). All-electric subsea installations have been on the agenda for years…

Trendsetter gets Leviathan contracts

Apr 05, 2017

Trendsetter Engineering has been awarded multiple contracts to design and manufacture subsea production equipment for Noble Energy’s Leviathan Project, a large natural gas field development in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel…

UES Seanic wins Tunisian contract

Feb 02, 2017

Newly merged Aberdeenshire-based Underwater Engineering Services (UES) and Houston-headquartered Seanic Oceans Systems secured its first contract in Tunisia, a region which neither firm had previously operated in. UES…

Ichthys installation of subsea infrastructure completed

Jan 17, 2017

Japan's Inpex completed the installation of a complex network of subsea infrastructure designed to support the extraction of gas and condensate for the Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, offshore Western Australia. The final…

Under pressure

Nov 01, 2016

Last year was a breakthrough year for subsea compression. Elaine Maslin surveys the projects that came online and discovers what became of Ormen Lange. Subsea compression at Ormen Lange. How it could have looked…

Shell completes Ormen Lange subsea compression pilot testing

Aug 30, 2016

Oil major Shell has completed system testing of the Ormen Lange subsea compression pilot in Norway, technology provider GE Oil & Gas has said.  GE says it is the world’s first subsea gas compression system with a full subsea power supply…

Power trip

Aug 01, 2016

Subsea power remains on the agenda for the subsea processing systems of the future. Elaine Maslin surveys the main players’ progress in producing subsea power distribution systems. The subsea factory – as envisioned by ABB…

EC-OG wins funding for commercialization

Jul 19, 2016

Aberdeen firm EC-OG (East Coast Oil and Gas Engineering) has secured more than £1 million of external investment from Castle View Ventures and the Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise. The investment follows the announcement of a £1…

OneSubsea wins Woodside supply

Jul 14, 2016

OneSubsea has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract totaling approximately US$300 million from Woodside Energy. OneSubsea will supply a subsea production system and a dual multiphase boosting system for the Greater Enfield Project…

JDR inks Vashishta subsea work off India

May 24, 2016

UK supplier of subsea umbilicals and power cables JDR has been awarded a contract by GE Oil & Gas, on behalf of operator ONGC, for the Vashishta and S1 development project, offshore India. The Vashishta and S1 fields are in the KG Basin…

Learning to be lean in the subsea sector

May 01, 2016

John Bradbury speaks with ExxonMobil’s Marilyn Tears ahead of her presentation at this year’s Underwater Technology Conference in Bergen, Norway. Tears. Marilyn Tears has already…

Joining the dots

May 01, 2016

While it offers a theoretically coherent concept, subsea processing can seem fragmented. Elaine Maslin spoke to Intecsea about how the company views the broader picture.   Statoil’s Åsgard project…

OneSubsea in GoM subsea boosting systems start-up

Apr 04, 2016

OneSubsea has announced the successful commission and start-up of subsea boosting systems installed in ultra deepwaters, located in the Gulf of Mexico. Installed in depths of approximately 7000ft (2100m), the subsea boosting systems consist of three retrievable 3 MW single-phase pump modules…

Powering the deep

Mar 01, 2016

Longer step-outs, harsher environments, deeper waters all point to an increasing need for power on the seafloor. Statoil and its partners are working on solutions. Elaine Maslin reports. ABB’s power from shore vision…

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