Subsea News


DONG, Faroe in US$70 million five field deal 

Jul 14, 2016

DONG E&P Norge is divesting its shares of five Norwegian oil and gas fields to Faroe Petroleum in a US$70.2 million deal, as Faroe moves to raise $81 million (£60.8 million) to fund the acquisition, as well as accelerate its Brasse discovery towards development…

NPD completes four ROV dives

Jul 14, 2016

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…

Tenaris opens Thai service center

Jul 13, 2016

Tenaris has inaugurated its first service center in Thailand in order to serve Chevron. From Songkhla, an important harbor on the Gulf of Thailand, Tenaris will supply the major OCTG and Rig Direct services. Tenaris will provide 80,000-ton of chrome and carbon casing and tubing…

Mermaid inks Asia, Middle East subsea work

Jul 13, 2016

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 to kit out Heerema Marine Contractor vessels

Jul 13, 2016

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…

Latest Canyon vessels get MacArtney winch systems

Jul 13, 2016

Subsea intervention, construction and engineering firm Canyon Offshore has opted for a Mermac electric winch solution to handle ROV systems on board the latest two additions to its Grand Canyon family of offshore support vessels.  MacArtney has supplied a total of four winch systems…

Wood Group inks Apache extension

Jul 13, 2016

Wood Group has been awarded an extension to its master service agreement (MSA) contract with Apache Corp. in the North Sea. Wood Group will continue to deliver subsea engineering and consultancy services, in support of Apache's routine operation and maintenance works…

Sea Trucks completes Chevron Nigeria work

Jul 12, 2016

Sea Trucks Group’s Nigerian business, West African Ventures (WAV), has completed the pipelay and construction campaign for Chevron’s Sonam Field development project. The Sonam Field development project is located in shelf concession OML 91…

Dril-Quip bags Indonesia subsea project

Jul 12, 2016

Houston-based Dril-Quip’s wholly owned subsidiary Dril-Quip Asia Pacific was awarded a US$40 million contract in late June to supply subsea drilling and production equipment and related services to Kangean Energy Indonesia Ltd., a contractor for SKK Migas…

Boots & Coots launches new intervention package

Jul 11, 2016

Boots & Coots Services, a Halliburton business, developed the Global Rapid Intervention Package (GRIP), a suite of services to help reduce costs and deployment time in the event of subsea well control events.   GRIP provides well planning…

Global Maritime provides marine warranty services for Block Island

Jul 11, 2016

Global Maritime Consultancy & Engineering, a provider of marine warranty, dynamic positioning and engineering services to the offshore sector, has signed a contract with offshore wind developer Deepwater Wind to provide marine warranty services for the Block Island Wind Farm…

FET inks triple ROV order

Jul 11, 2016

Forum Energy Technologies (FET) had entered into a contract with New Orient Marine to supply three remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for New Orient Marine's multi-purpose ice-class vessel currently under construction in Singapore. Perry XYX 200 ROV…

NPD grants Balder subsea startup

Jul 11, 2016

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted ExxonMobil consent to start-up the subsea facility for production well 25/11-E-29 AH on the Balder field, nearly one week after the supermajor gained approval from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA)…

UTEC completes Fairfield GOM job

Jul 11, 2016

UTEC Survey has completed a significant ROV navigation and seismic node positioning project in deepwater Gulf of Mexico.  The project, for seismic nodal technology firm FairfieldNodal, was undertaken in 2425m water depth. It involved…

Saipem lands Zohr EPCI contract

Jul 07, 2016

Italian offshore contractor Saipem has won an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract on the supergiant Zohr gas field off Egypt. The contract, won of a number won jointly worth more than US$1.6 billion Euros…

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