Subsea News


SEG15: CGG releases software updates

Oct 19, 2015

CGG GeoSoftware has announced new releases to its application suites: Jason 9.0, Hampson-Russell 10.0 and Insight Earth 3.0. Jason 9.0 has a new anisotropic inversion tool for analyzing anisotropy for effective well design and optimum production…

Aker shares Asgard vision

Oct 16, 2015

In this video, Aker Solutions talks about the vision of the world’s first subsea gas compression system to the Statoil-operated Asgard field offshore Norway. The NOK 19 billion (US$2.34 billion) Åsgard subsea gas compression project…

Aker, Man eye next generation subsea compression

Oct 16, 2015

Aker Solutions and MAN Diesel & Turbo agreed to form an alliance to develop the next generation in subsea compression systems that can be used at even the smallest oil and gas fields to increase recovery and lower costs compared with conventional platform solutions…

Technip, 3D at Depth form LiDAR alliance

Oct 14, 2015

Technip USA, Inc., an affiliate of Technip SA of France and 3D at Depth, a global technology provider of advanced subsea LiDAR systems and solutions, announced that they have signed a joint development agreement to expand and commercialize the LiDAR technology for subsea metrology…

OMS completes Kaombo subsea project

Oct 14, 2015

Image: Kaombo Ultra-Deep Offshore Project/Optical Metrology Services Optical Metrology Services (OMS) completed a series of pipe measurement surveys for the Kaombo Ultra-Deep Offshore…

Egypt award for Subsea 7

Oct 14, 2015

Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Pharaonic Petroleum Co. for the development of the East Nile Delta Phase 3 Project (END-3).  The scope includes installation engineering, procurement and fabrication of rigid spools, and  installation of pipeline…

Jee contract with BP extended

Oct 13, 2015

Jee Ltd, an independent multi-discipline subsea engineering and training firm, has secured a contract extension with BP for the provision of integrity management services and in-line inspection engineering support in the North Sea. The contract involves project coordination…

Primeline gets contract extension

Oct 13, 2015

Primeline Energy Holdings Inc. has announced that China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) has agreed to extend the exploration period under the petroleum contract for Block 33/07 to facilitate Primeline’s exploration drilling program in the East China Sea…

Statoil fires up Gullfaks wet compression first

Oct 12, 2015

Norwegian firms have chalked up yet another subsea first on the country's continental shelf. Just weeks after Statoil brought the Aasgard subsea gas compression project online, on 17 September, Statoil has announced it has now also started…

BP rewards Ocean Installer

Oct 12, 2015

UK-based SURF contractor Ocean Installer has been awarded a Regional Framework Agreement with BP for subsea work in the Gulf of Mexico region. The agreement covers subsea fabrication, transportation and installation of offshore facilities…

Impact Subsea releases latest measurement device

Oct 09, 2015

Following on from the successful launch of the ISA500, Aberdeenshire based Impact Subsea has released the ISA500-L. The ISA500-L is the lite version of the ISA500, providing a highly cost effective solution for underwater altitude and distance measurement applications…

Statoil awards two Johan Sverdrup jacket contracts

Oct 08, 2015

Statoil has awarded contracts for two Johan Sverdrup jackets to Kvaerner Verdal and Dragados Offshore.  The contract awarded to Kvaerner Verdal has a value of approximately US$122.8 million (NOK 1 billion) and covers engineering, fabrication…

Claxton develops SWAT extension module

Oct 07, 2015

Claxton developed an extension module for its suspended well abandonment tool (SWAT), enabling Claxton and Acteon sister company, Offshore Installation Services Ltd. (OIS), to set deeper environmental and intermediate barriers. The existing…

Pulse wins NOV contract

Oct 06, 2015

Pulse Structural Monitoring (Pulse), an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract with National Oilwell Varco (NOV) Arendal in Norway to provide an acoustic mooring line subsea monitoring system to measure mooring line inclination and tension…

Fugro Scout completes Middle East project

Oct 05, 2015

Fugro Scout, the new 83m geotechnical drilling vessel, has completed its maiden project in the Middle East. Since its maiden project in the Persian Gulf it has been successfully deployed in the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea, completing several…

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