Thailand's Mermaid Maritime has won two contracts worth some US$5.1 million in Southeast Asia. The company said the first contract, scheduled to begin in Q1 2017, is with an international upstream company for installation works in the Natuna Sea…
A new subsea company has officially launched with the announcement of its first UK contract. ROV and inspection company Rovco, based in Bristol, has secured a contract with a UK Marine Trust. The company, which says it has 10 ROVs…
FMC Technologies and DOF Subsea have entered into an agreement for two new remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) from FMC’s Schilling Robotics business line. The HD and UHD-III ROVs will be delivered in December 2016. These ROVs will be utilized by DOF Subsea for its inspection…
Utility ROV Services (URS), has unveiled two new custom ROV (remotely operated vehicle) systems at their base in Glenrothes, Scotland demonstrating a US$7.8 million (£6 million) investment in the company. As a result of the additional capacity the extra systems will provide…
Total E&P Uruguay awarded Fugro a contract to support its drilling campaign offshore Uruguay. The contract provides for ROV and tooling services in the Raya-1 prospect in 3400m water depth. Fugro is supplying two state-of-the-art 200hp FCV 4000D work-class ROV systems and subsea tooling…
Assessing the condition of pipelines, especially as they get older, is an increasing task. John Sheehan surveys potential solutions. Tracerco’s Discovery tool. Image from Tracerco. The…
Jerry Lee takes a look at Weatherford’s new subsea wellhead connector, which allows operators to use vessels of opportunity for P&A work, reducing the cost of decommissioning operations. Clients…
Oceaneering’s Justin Pizzitola discusses the use of an open water dual coiled riser based system for rigless stimulation. Back deck of an Oceaneering vessel. Images from Oceaneering International…
Oceaneering International has completed its acquisition of Meridian Ocean Services. Meridian uses remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to perform surveys on mobile offshore drilling units and floating production systems that satisfy the…
Forum Energy Technologies (FET) has opened a new plant near Houston expanding its syntactic foam manufacturing capabilities. The six-acre facility in Bryan, Texas, brings Forum’s Syntech product line closer to clients in the oil and gas industry and has the capacity to support future growth…
Fugro has been awarded a geotechnical site investigation contract by ONGC India for the KG-DWN-98/2 project on the East Coast of India. The purpose of the work is to gather site specific geotechnical and geohazard data to aid in the design and later installation of wellheads…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has carried out four successful ROV (remotely operated underwater vehicle) dives and has acquired depth data (bathymetry) near the Vøring Spur in the western Norwegian Sea. Figure 1…
Mermaid Subsea Services (Thailand) (MSST) has been awarded a contract to provide technical support service personnel to a national offshore oil and gas engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning company with large-scale projects internationally…
Oceaneering has entered into a master service agreement with Heerema Marine Contractors through to December 2020. Under the agreement, Oceaneering will provide up to 10 remotely operated vehicle (ROV) systems with associated subsea tooling…
Searcher Seismic has commenced the acquisition of the Buscador Near-Shore 2D seismic survey, offshore Mexico, using the BGP Pioneer vessel. Map of the Buscador Near-Shore 2D Seismic Survey, from Searcher Seismic…
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