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Maersk picks Technip for Danish project

Jun 24, 2014

Technip has been awarded two contracts by Maersk Oil for the Valdemar and Roar gas lift project as well as the Rolf replacement pipeline project, on the Danish Continental Shelf, 250km offshore Esbjerg, Denmark. The scope of work will…

Thai ROV partnership launched

Jun 23, 2014

Thailand's PTT Exploration and Production Public Company (PTTEP) has agreed a partnership to develop ROVs to be used for marine environmental studies, as part of oil and gas exploration activities.  The cooperation marks the first time…

IHC Merwede launches Hi-Traq trencher

Jun 19, 2014

IHC Merwede has introduced the world’s first four-tracked subsea trencher, specifically developed for shallow water operations and targeted towards cable burial in offshore wind farms. Read an in-depth feature here: Traq-ing underwater…

GOM win for Subsea 7

Jun 16, 2014

Subsea 7 has been awarded a more than US$50 million contract in the US Gulf of Mexico by Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas in support of its velopment of the KOQV and Holstein Deep fields. The work scope covers the installation of flexible pipelines and umbilicals for both fields…

CLOV in production

Jun 12, 2014

Total’s CLOV deepwater oil development offshore Angola in Block 17, began production on schedule, the French company announced on 12 June. The development is expected to reach daily production capacity of 160,000bbl in the coming months…

SEAMEC Princess upgrades

Jun 11, 2014

Diving support vessel (DSV) provider, Seamec Ltd. has chosen Sonardyne acoustic position reference technology to support its dynamic positioning operations. The company has upgraded the Ranger 1 system installed on the SEAMEC Princess to…

Compact compression

Jun 11, 2014

An artist's illustration of the Asgard subsea compression facilities. Image from Aker Solutions. Subsea gas compression is being built on a large scale offshore Norway. But is the future in smaller projects Aker Solutions thinks so…

Subsea UK kicks-off

Jun 10, 2014

Subsea UK will hosts its biennial conference, Subsea Asia, in Malaysia this week, beginning 11 June.  With the Malaysian government recently approving new incentives for exploration activity in more challenging deepwater fields, Neil Gordon (pictured)…

Brynhild production set back

Jun 09, 2014

First production from Lundin’s Brynhild subsea tieback development has been set back to due commissioning issues on the Haewene Brim FPSO.  Brynhild, which sits in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, will be a four-well subsea tieback to Bluewater’s Haewene Brim…

Wood Group wins Shah Deniz 2 contract

Jun 03, 2014

BP Azerbaijan awarded London's Wood Group a £36 million (US$60 million) call-off contract for the Shah Deniz 2 project under a 2007 global agreement. The contract covers subsea engineering and project management services during the subsea execute phase…

ASV's unmanned C-Worker completes DW trials in GoM

Jun 03, 2014

ASV’s C-Worker 6 successfully carried out a seabed transponder calibration in 1300m deep waters. The trials took place in the Gulf of Mexico and were conducted in rough conditions with 2.5m waves. C-Worker is an oil field services…

NOV selects FES stiffener connectors

Jun 03, 2014

UK oil and gas engineering firm FES International has won a US$1.2million (£700,000) contract to supply four diverless bend stiffener connectors to contractor NOV Flexibles. This is FES’ third project for NOV Flexibles this year, with a combined value of almost $5million…

Claxton bags its biggest contract

Jun 03, 2014

UK-based Acteon group company Claxton has been awarded its largest single riser contract in its history by Norway's Det norske oljeselskap. The multi-year contract is from January 2014 thru June 2020, and includes high- and low-pressure risers…

Swiber wins Latin American EPIC contract

Jun 02, 2014

Swiber Holdings Ltd. announced it has won an US$80 million engineering, procurement, installation and construction contract in Latin America. The client is undisclosed, but the contract covers subsea development work including pipeline tie-ins…

Oceaneering acquires AIRSIS

Jun 02, 2014

Oceaneering International, Inc. acquired AIRSIS Inc., a provider of remote asset management software services, the company announced on 2 June 2014. Oceaneering expects the acquisition to enhance the company's current asset tracking service…

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