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McDermott puts newbuild DLV 2000 to work

Feb 23, 2016

Engineering and construction firm McDermott International has announced a string of new contracts offshore Australia and a few frame agreement focused on subsea projects offshore India. The frame frame agreement is with L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE)…

All subsea options

Oct 01, 2015

Most of the building blocks are in place for the all-subsea solution. But do they offer an attractive proposition? Elaine Maslin looks at DNV GL’s current thinking. Operations during the Åsgard…

J2 Subsea, WeSubsea renew distribution partnership

Sep 28, 2015

J2 Subsea has renewed its global sales and rental distribution partnership with WeSubsea. The partnership provides customers around the world with technical support from J2 Subsea, and global access to the WeSubsea range of baskets…

Shell awards FMC Appomattox contract

Sep 23, 2015

FMC Technologies has received an award from Shell for its Appomattox deepwater development in the US Gulf of Mexico. FMC Technologies will provide enhanced vertical deepwater trees, subsea manifolds, topside controls, a control system…

ABB commissions new cable-laying vessel

Sep 18, 2015

ABB ordered a new cable-laying vessel to be custom-built to ABB specifications and measure approximately 140m by 30m, and be constructed at Kleven shipyard in Norway. Delivery is expected in 2017.   Image…

Nexans cables to power Nasr fileld

Sep 03, 2015

A new super complex at the heart of the future development of the Nasr oil field, offshore from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, is to be powered by Nexans' subsea cables. Nexans has been awarded contract worth around US$100 million by engineering…

Oceaneering acquires Viper Subsea stake

Aug 10, 2015

Houston-based Oceaneering International is diving further into the subsea sector with the acquisition of a minority interest in the UK’s Viper Subsea Technology. Image from Oceaneering. The deal…

West Delta Deep Marine- Expansion beyond Limits

Apr 01, 2015

When the West Deep Delta Marine development came onstream offshore Egypt in 1999, it was planned to have a 25-year field life. It’s now on its Phase IXa development, with 58 wells, seven with HIPPS, and 14 manifolds. None have been plugged and abandoned yet…

Leap of faith

Mar 01, 2015

Will subsea tech join fracking slowdown? There may be too much momentum. Bruce Nichols reports. Testing for Train 2 of the Asgard subsea compression system was completed in December at Aker Solutions’ dockside yard in Egersund…

J+S installs HsV on CNR Lyell MPBP

Jan 21, 2015

J+S created a bespoke engineering solution to terminate HV connectors complete with pigtails onto an existing umbilical. The solution required replacement of a single 3-phase connector with separate phase connections to each core. J+S enabled an in-field assembly onto the existing umbilical…

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…

Chevron supports subsea JIP

Jan 06, 2015

Chevron has become the latest major operator to join Viper Subsea’s joint industry project (JIP) to develop its subsea integrity monitoring system known as V-IR.  The project, which began in October 2013, has already attracted Shell,…

Electrifying tube bending

Nov 01, 2014

A CNC (computer numerical control) tube bending machine with advanced programmability is helping Siemens Subsea Products to improve the precision and production efficiency of subsea hydraulic components and systems. Steve Hadrell explains…

Viper Subsea exhibits new line integrity monitor, V-LIM

Oct 16, 2014

Viper Subsea exhibited its latest innovation in Aberdeen this week. The V-LIM is a line integrity monitor that provides extremely accurate electrical integrity data across a wide range of insulation resistance levels and can be readily integrated…

ABB supplies power solutions to Kraken FPSO

Oct 01, 2014

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order from Armada Kraken Pte, a subsidiary of Bumi Armada Berhad, a Malaysia-based international offshore oilfield services provider. ABB will provide power and automation technologies for the floating…

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