Six autonomous, self-propelled robotic crafts that collects ocean meteorological and natural resources data, were deployed in the Barents Sea on 1 July. The crafts collect a wide range of information such as wave height, current speed and direction…
C-Nav, a division of C & C Technologies an Oceaneering International company providing dynamic DGNSS Precise Point Positioning systems, has introduced a recently upgraded version of its C-Scape software. C-Scape provides independent, real-time monitoring of dynamic positioning (DP) systems…
Strategic Corrosion Management (SCM) launched new systems to support improved tracking and management of integrity and corrosion anomalies for both on and offshore assets, supporting safety, productivity and cost management targets. An anomaly management module has been created for SCM’s…
Datum360 has been awarded - and has already successfully delivered - a US$1.05 million (£685,000) contract by Total to provide a data warehouse for the ground breaking Martin Linge project in the Norwegian North Sea. Currently under construction…
RigNet Inc., a Houston-based global provider of remote-managed offshore communications, telecoms systems integration services and collaborative applications to the oil and gas industry, was awarded a multi-year contract to deliver high-quality…
Summit ESP has launched its Sentry Well Surveillance services, a real time electrical submersible pump (ESP) and optimization service. Summit ESP Sentry is a holistic approach to well surveillance backed with 24/7/365 monitoring services designed to increase production…
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) entered into two new data licensing agreements for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS' multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. The agreements are worth a total of US$2 million. The multi-client revenues will be booked in the 2Q 2015…
Could the North Sea become a CO2 storage site? Elaine Maslin takes a look at two proposed projects and some of the challenges involved. The CCS goal—how the Scottish Centre for Carbon Storage sees carbon capture and storage on and offshore…
Medical technology has been taken to the bottom of deepwater Gulf of Mexico to help operators understand their flow assurance and asset integrity issues. Elaine Maslin explains a technology first. Discovery deployed…
Three firms have joined forces to lighten the load of offshore heavy lifting game. Elaine Maslin found out more. DeepTek drum winch, with 150m test length of LankoDeep AHC rope, installed on Jebsen and Jessen 110-tonne knuckle boom crane…
Wood Group acquired BETA Machinery Analysis (BETA), a Calgary-based engineering consultancy specializing in advanced vibration analysis in a deal valued at US$14.3 million. BETA’s expertise in advanced vibration, pulsation stress…
Wild Well Control announced the start-up of a new well control training certification program that will offer a selection of action-oriented well control training curricula, which includes both team and individual well control simulator exercises…
Dolphin Drilling selected learning technologies provider Atlas Knowledge to deliver a new system to manage the competence and training of its workforce in the UK. The contract will employ Atlas to oversee the installation and development…
German navigation system manufacturer Raytheon Anschütz announced new contracts for the delivery of Synapsis Integrated Navigation Systems (INS) to five 14,500TEU container vessels built at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Co.. The new…
Elastec introduced a new product for offshore and nearshore oil spill cleanup. The X150 Skimmer Launching System is an oil spill response system with the capability to recover light, medium and some heavy oils in incidents. Elastec’s…