French engineering house Technip and US-based underwater technologies firm FMC Technologies are to combine, creating a new US$13 billion business, the firms announced this morning. The companies, which firmed a joint venture, Forsys Subsea…
Supermajor Shell and the US Coast Guard (USCG) concluded skimming operations in their joint response to the discharge of 2100 bbl (88,200 gallons) of crude oil at the Glider field in the Gulf of Mexico, the pair said late on 16 May. The joint response mobilized more than 150 people…
Subsea inspection, maintenance and repair provider, N-Sea and subsea projects and engineering provider, DOF Subsea have entered into a two-year cooperation agreement to provide an Integrated Saturation (SAT) Dive Service. The cooperation…
Shell announced on 15 May that production from the Brutus field in the US Gulf of Mexico has resumed following a leak at the nearby Glider field on May 12, which shut-in all production to the associated tension leg platform. While production…
The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is continuing its investigation of the oil release from Shell's Glider field on May 12. The Glider field, approximately 97mi south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana, includes subsea wells…
Statoil entered into a six-year framework agreement with Trelleborg’s offshore operation in Norway for the supply of Elastopipe, corrosion protection, Passive Fire Protection (PFP) as well as Thermal Insulation (Vikotherm R2, S1 and P7). Elastopipe is the first corrosion-free…
The Libra consortium has invited Airborne Oil & Gas to perform a failure mode, effect and criticality assessment (FMECA) for a TCP (thermoplastic composite pipe) Riser that could be used at the giant Libra field offshore Brazil. The request…
Forum Energy Technologies delivered nine of its largest subsea Pig Launchers and Receivers (PLRs) and laydown heads to a project in North Africa. The PLRs have been deployed as part of a development of nine subsea wells, which vary from 4-24in size…
WFS Technology has appointed Mike Theobald as project director for Australia and Southeast Asia. Theobald brings his knowledge and understanding of subsea control systems, as well as an insight into how best to use Seatooth products and technology…
Tracerco, part of the FTSE 100 Johnson Matthey, has completed a US$5 million upgrade of their facilities in Houston. The new facilities include an environmentally controlled subsea simulation tank to prepare their subsea diagnostic technologies prior to mobilization offshore…
Total's Laggan-Tormore subsea to shore development west of Shetland has now ramped up to full production at 90,000 boe/d. The French oil giant held an official inauguration ceremony at the Shetland Gas Plant, built to receive the production…
The source of a leak that spilled 2100 bbl (88,200 gallons) of crude oil into the US Gulf of Mexico around Shell's Glider field has been identified, the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced on 13 May. On-site investigators…
Are you the next Tracerco? Entries have now opened for this year's Underwater Technology Foundation (UTF) Subsea Award 2016, which will be presented at the Underwater Technology Conference in Bergen in June. The award has been designed…
Wintershall Norge has awarded a four-year service contract to support its exploration and development projects in Norway to Halliburton. The contract is effective immediately and will be used for drilling-associated services on Wintershall’s Maria development in the Norwegian Sea…
French engineering firm Technip has been awarded an engineering services contract by Australia's Woodside to provide multi-disciplinary engineering services as part of an engineering panel. This contract covers all Woodside operated onshore…