Statoil has awarded Ocean Installer a contract for subsea installations and tie-in operations on Johan Sverdrup, Utgard, and Bauge. Normand Vision. Image from Ocean Installer. The…
Bluestream has secured a five-year contract plus two-year extension with ONEgas, the combined business unit of Shell UK and the Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM) for the gas production on the Southern North Sea. Image from Bluestream…
Trelleborg has created a seal that works inside a new product, which was developed by Subsea Technologies Ltd. (STL), the 2in Hydraulically Retractable Subsea Coupler. Image from Trelleborg. The…
DOF Subsea's newbuild light intervention vessel the Skandi Vinland has started a 10-year contract with Husky Energy of the east coast of Canada. Under the contract, the DOF Subsea team based in St. John's will supply inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services over 10 years…
HWCG’s David Coatney stresses the importance of developing comprehensive response plans to prevent deepwater blowouts. Photo from HWCG. To respond to future offshore deepwater drilling incidents…
Karen Boman assesses the market for West African oil and gas projects, and profiles Total’s Moho Nord development offshore Congo. The tension leg platform and Likouf FPU at the Moho Nord field…
Well intervention spending has been hit harder than other areas, but it is not due to a lack of opportunities. Elaine Maslin reports. Island Offshore’s Island Frontier. Image from Island Offshore…
Composite for coiled tubing has been tried before, but the industry wasn’t ready yet. Norway’s Prototech is taking another look. New software optimizes composite pipe based on typical CT loading conditions…
Marie Morkved shows how a desire to eschew ‘how we’ve always done it’ helped Maersk Oil take a different approach to well intervention – using coiled hose on its UK North Sea Balloch field. Coilhose…
Audrey Leon discusses the next game-changing intervention technologies with OE’s Deepwater Intervention Forum advisory board members ahead of this year’s show. Onboard the Well Enhancer looking…
While significant costs have been stripped out of the oil and gas industry, shale is fighting back. And, if the subsea industry is to survive, it will need more than just reduced costs, industry executives told the Underwater Technology Conference (UTC) in Bergen…
Elaine Maslin surveys some of the plugging and abandonment solutions presented at Sintef’s Experimental P&A Research for the North Sea event in Trondheim, Norway. Alexandra Bech Gjørv Plugging…
Subsea 7 has acquired parts of EMAS Chiyoda Subsea (ECS), following the firm's fall into Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the US. The Lewek Constellation. Subsea…
GE Oil & Gas has signed a long-term agreement to collaborate with Eni and CNPC consortium EEA on Area 4 offshore Mozambique, including the Coral South floating LNG (FLNG) project. The Coral South FLNG project will be the first deepwater gas development offshore Mozambique…
First oil from the US$2.5 billion Kraken floating heavy oil development in the UK North Sea has been announced. The Kraken development, about 125km east of the Shetland Islands, off Scotland, is due to comprise a total 25 wells (14…