Subsea News


New Reservoir Engineering Suite

Nov 01, 2018

Emerson's upgraded reservoir engineering suite offering takes automation a step further, slashing cycle times with more accurate forecasts.Emerson has unveiled its latest integrated reservoir engineering suite offering tools for advanced reservoir management and flow simulation…

Blue-Gift to Implement Marine Power Project

Nov 01, 2018

The European Marine Energy Center (Emec) in Orkney, Scotland, will lead a project to support the development of wave and tidal power in coastal areas of north-west Europe.The project has been approved by Interreg Atlantic Area which will support…

Kvaerner Wins Sverdrup Jacket Number Four

Oct 31, 2018

Norway's Equinor has awarded a NOK 900 million ($107 million) contract to local contractor Kvaerner for delivery of the steel substructure for the Johan Sverdrup Phase 2 process platform.The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) award…

Odfjell Drilling Bags Deepsea Contract from MOL Norge

Oct 31, 2018

International drilling, well service and engineering company Odfjell Drilling said it has signed a Letter of Intent for Deepsea Bergen with MOL Norge for one exploration well in direct continuation of the contract with OMV Norge, estimated to expire in Q3/Q4 2019…

Claxton to support MOL Norge’s first well programme on the Norwegian Continental Shelf

Oct 29, 2018

Claxton, a supplier of engineering and services for shallow-water, jackup-depth markets in subsea services group Acteon, has been contracted to support MOL Norge AS on its first well program on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.The award is through Ross Offshore Well Management AS…

Cairn Energy Submits Senegal SNE Plan

Oct 25, 2018

UK-based Cairn Energy  announced that the Development and Exploitation Plan for the SNE field offshore Senegal has been submitted on schedule to the Government of Senegal by the Joint Venture (JV) with approval targeted later this year.Cairn…

Klein Selects Greensea Inertial Navigation

Oct 24, 2018

Klein Marine Systems chose Greensea Systems to provide SWaP-C optimized inertial navigation for its side scan sonar towfish products. The Greensea INSpect GS products use Greensea’s open architecture operating platform, OPENSEA, and a patent-pending heading alignment methodology…

Rovco Buys a Falcon DR ROV

Oct 24, 2018

U.K. subsea services company Rovco said it has expanded its remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) and hydrographic survey capabilities with the addition of an electric Saab Seaeye Falcon DR ROV to its fleet.The 1,000-meter depth rated,…

Aker Solutions Bags Lingshui Subsea Deal

Oct 24, 2018

Norwegian oil services firm Aker Solutions Aker Solutions received a notification of award for orders valued at more than NOK 1.7 billion (USD 210m) from the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to provide the subsea production system and umbilicals for the Lingshui 17-2 gas field…

TechnipFMC Bags Subsea Contract from ExxonMobil

Oct 24, 2018

The subsea and offshore service provider TechnipFMC  has been awarded a contract by an affiliate of ExxonMobil Corporation  for the engineering of the subsea system for the proposed Liza Phase 2 project.Following engineering and subject to requisite government approvals…

Drafinsub Chooses Falcon ROV

Oct 23, 2018

Italian underwater works company Drafinsub chose the Saab Seaeye Falcon electric remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) for the wide ranging and complex tasks undertaken by the company.“We chose the Falcon because it's the industry standard for observation robotic vehicles…

UK's Tullow to Ramp Up Ghana Oil Production

Oct 23, 2018

UK-based Tullow Oil aims to ramp up its oil production in Ghana to 180,000 barrels per day by the end of the year, following successful drilling of additional wells, its Ghana head Kweku Awotwi said on Tuesday.Tullow is confident of sustaining peak production from its two oilfields in Ghana…

ROVOP Acquires M2 Subsea's ROV Fleet

Oct 22, 2018

Remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) operator ROVOP announced it has purchase of the entire fleet of 28 ROV systems from competitor M2 Subsea.Following a technical review, 19 of the systems meet the ROVOP standard and will be added to its fleet…

Bourbon Awarded Floating Wind Farm Work

Oct 22, 2018

Bourbon Subsea Services has been selected by Windplus to install three floating wind turbines of 8.3 MW, 20 km off Viana do Castelo, Portuguese coast. These turbines, with a total capacity of 25 MW, are the most powerful in the floating offshore wind industry…

ABS Awards AIP to HHI’s Deepwater FLNG Hull

Oct 22, 2018

ABS granted Approval in Principle (AIP) to Hyundai Heavy Industries’ (HHI) Deepwater Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) hull design.HHI advises the Newbuilding Conversion FLNG hull design for offshore application can be constructed for about…

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