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Seatronics, Force Technology form partnership

Jan 09, 2017

Seatronics, an Acteon company and provider of marine electronic equipment, has formed a partnership agreement with Force Technology, an international technological consultancy company.  The agreement will provide Seatronics’ global customer…

Light at the end of the pipeline

Jan 01, 2017

Is the subsea market poised for a comeback? Jon Fredrik Müller, of Rystad Energy, sets out the detail. An oil and gas Xmas tree. Photo from GE Oil & Gas. The subsea market has…

Scotland reveals new decom plan

Dec 22, 2016

A new decommissioning action plan launched today by the Scottish government’s economic development agencies hopes to help Scotland’s oil and gas sector take advantage of the estimated £17.6 billion forecast by Oil & Gas UK to be spent on…

OMS adds internal grinding service

Dec 08, 2016

OMS has added a new internal grinding service to address the many difficult challenges faced by welding engineers. Now, areas of corrosion which were once left to degrade, or the problems associated with excessive weld root penetration can be addressed from within the pipe…

Shah Deniz II gets US$1 billion investment

Dec 08, 2016

Manila’s Asian Development Bank (ADB) is investing US$1 billion in the expansion of the BP-led Shah Deniz II project, offshore Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. Welding of Shah Deniz II jackets being fabricated at BDJF…

Pioneering Spirit to work on South Stream

Dec 08, 2016

South Stream Transport has awarded Swiss-based Allseas Group a contract to lay the first line of the TurkStream offshore gas pipeline in the Black Sea, with an option for laying the second line.  According to the contract, Allseas is to lay more than 900km of pipes on the seabed…

N-Sea, Strathclyde Uni collaborate on pipeline inspection

Dec 07, 2016

Subsea services firm N-Sea and the University of Strathclyde’s Institute of Sensors Signals and Communications at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering have secured funding from the Data Lab Innovation Centre for a research project to automate subsea pipeline inspection…

Mighty Murchison – End of an era

Dec 01, 2016

After more than three decades’ production, the mighty Murchison platform was finally down-manned this year. Work to dismantle the 25,000-tonne topsides is ongoing. Elaine Maslin reports. CNR International’s…

Centrica unveils Oda plan, first oil for 2019

Nov 30, 2016

Centrica is planning a US$637 million subsea tieback development of its 48 MMboe recoverable Oda field in the Norwegian North Sea. Oda, previously called Butch, was discovered in 2011, in 65m water depth about 250km southwest of Stavanger and 13km east of the Ula field…

L&T unveils spool base facility in Chennai

Nov 28, 2016

L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro, has unveiled high-tech spool base facilities at L&T’s fabrication facility at Kattupalli, in Chennai. These facilities are being employed to execute a prestigious…

Amberjack GoM debottleneck complete

Nov 18, 2016

The Amberjack debottlenecking project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM) has been completed, expanding its infrastructure and increasing Green Canyon Block platform (GC-19) off-take capacity by 60%.   Amberjack illustration…

URS develops Mattress Recovery Tool

Nov 18, 2016

Utility ROV Services (URS) has developed a new Mattress Recovery Tool (MRT) for the oil and gas decommissioning market. The tool has been designed to recover concrete mattresses that have been installed extensively in oil and gas fields to protect subsea piping…

Technip inks Gulf of Mexico umbilical contract

Nov 10, 2016

Technip Umbilicals has been awarded a contract by a major operator to supply a subsea control umbilical in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract includes the project management and manufacture of 7km of a static and dynamic unarmored steel tube umbilical…

A heavy burden

Nov 01, 2016

More and more heavy oil is coming into production pipelines. Measuring it, in a multiphase flow, is a challenge, says NEL’s David Millington. Heavy Oil. Photos from NEL. Cost…

Subsea 7 inks Atoll deepwater scope

Oct 20, 2016

Subsea 7 has been awarded a substantial contract on the BP-operated deepwater Atoll field offshore Egypt. Atoll, a 1.5 Tcf and 31 MMbbl condensate field, in 900m water depth in the North Damietta Offshore Concession in the East Nile Delta…

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