Royal Boskalis Westminster and Royal Volker Wessels Stevin (VolkerWessels) will establish a joint venture (JV) for carrying out offshore cable installation. Boskalis and VolkerWessels will each hold a 50% stake in Visser & Smit Marine Contracting…
Subsea 7 opened its Global Pipeline Welding Development Centre (GPWDC), the result of a US$15.6 million investment in its operations base at Clydebank, Glasgow. The center will develop welding technology for global deployment. The GPWDC is…
SeaBird Exploration Plc announced today that M/V Geo Pacific was awarded a new contract in the Caribbean. The work is estimated to require 63 days and the contract value is about US$12 million. M/V Geo Pacific is the latest vessel added to Seadrill's fleet…
ABB appointed Ulrich Spiesshofer, the head of its Discrete Automation and Motion (DM) division, to succeed Joe Hogan as CEO, effective September 15. Marcio Rocha Mello, founder and CEO of Brazilian E&P firm HRT, has resigned his position…
Mike Earlam joined Aberdeen-based Offshore Installation Services (OIS), an Aceton company, as president in April. OIS specializes in providing support for construction, maintenance, installation and decommissioning projects. As leader of OIS…
Aberdeen-based Flexlife deployed its new integrity monitoring technology, FlexGuard, at Chevron’s Captain field in the UK North Sea. The new monitoring tool provides the operator with instant, continuous monitoring of any subsea riser. This…
WFS Technologies and Stork Technical Services unveiled their Seatooth Smart CP, a subsea wireless cathodic protection (CP) monitoring system designed for retrofit to existing fields. The system monitors the effects of corrosion by measuring…
Aberdeen-based Nautronix enhanced the functionality of the Nautronix NASDrill USBL acoustic positioning systems by incorporating a new transducer design. The company used its acoustic digital spread spectrum (ADS2) signaling technology to house the hydrophone within a ruggedized…
Germany’s Raytheon Anschütz launched a new generation, maintenance- free gyro compass. The Horizon MF is a strap-down compass system that uses hemispherical resonator gyros (HRG) to measure angular rates for heading calculation. The system…
Oklahoma-based Tulsa Power’s offshore loading stations are designed to eliminate hoses being laid on deck and dangling from saddles – avoiding trip hazards; reducing UV exposure, hose kinks and fatigue/breakage failures, and reducing the chance of spills…
Recent offshore drilling by Apache and Anadarko help gauge the potential of the Lamu basin. Vision 2030 is Kenya’s development strategy which aims to transform the economy and “create a globally competitive and prosperous nation with a high quality of life by 2030…
Tanzania has become hot property, with BG Group and Statoil eying LNG export from the gas-rich offshore region. Tanzania’s recent rise up the resource rankings has been fast, despite it having taken a long time to reveal its potential reserves…
All eyes are on Mozambique as significant natural gas finds are set to turn the East African country into a major LNG player, but are oil riches on the horizon? Mozambique’s prolific Rovuma basin holds 12 offshore discoveries within a 50km radius…
This event aired on August 20, 2013 Click to AccessThe offshore oil and gas industry continues moving into deeper waters, creating challenges in operations that would be common place in shallow-water projects. New synthetic materials…
Petrobras leads subsea pumping development to overcome deepwater production problems Subsea boosting has evolved since the first subsea multiphase pump was installed, in 1994, by Shell at Draugen field in the Norwegian Sea. That pump…