Abdelghani Henni reports on how French major Total is keeping the ABK field offshore Abu Dhabi up and running past its initial life span, and beyond, serving as a pilot project for other major fields in the country. ABK…
Aging infrastructure, deep waters, high-pressures and rising levels of H2S and CO2 are all on the hit for Technip’s VP of technology development. Elaine Maslin spoke to Group SVP Subsea Innovation & Technology Laurent Decoret. Laurent Decoret…
WFS Technologies (WFS), a provider of underwater wireless instrumentation and control solutions to the offshore oil and gas, and renewables industries, launched the Seatooth PipeLogger Corrosion Monitor. The Seatooth PipeLogger Corrosion…
ITC Global, a provider of satellite communications to remote and harsh environments, has announced that it has been awarded two multi-million dollar contracts, each spanning three years, to provide remote offshore communications to five floating production…
Sparrows Group, and its cable and pipe-lay solutions (CPLS) division, has been awarded a contract by Oceaneering International, a provider of engineered services and products to the offshore oil and gas industry, to design and manufacture two 500-tonne powered and jack-able under-rollers…
A major study is underway to identify new processes and technologies that can be applied to asset integrity challenges in the UK offshore oil and gas industry. Lockheed Martin has been commissioned to conduct a technology landscaping…
Atlantis Resources and ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) are teaming up to develop a joint portfolio of projects for the growing tidal sector, announced Atlantis. Atlantis’s Scottish project development vehicle, Tidal Power Scotland Limited (TPSL)…
The international satellite communications industry has elected Tracey Haslam, president of Harris CapRock Communications, to serve on the Global VSAT Forum’s (GVF) board of directors. The vote was held in conjunction with the GVF…
Weatherford achieved a new world record by landing an 1180-ton (2,360,700-lb) casing string at a total depth of 26,805 ft (8170 m). The job was performed on a deepwater rig in the Gulf of Mexico this fall. The operator of a deepwater rig in the Green Canyon required installation of a heavy…
AnTech, provider of products and services for the upstream oil and gas industry, has launched three new products within its Wellhead Outlet range. The Type-C Wellhead Outlet, which was designed and developed by the company for use in hazardous environments…
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has signed Flemish wave energy developer Laminaria to test its innovative wave energy converter at EMEC's grid-connected wave test site at Billia Croo, off the west coast of Orkney, Scotland. Laminaria's technology…
Deepwater mooring specialist, First Subsea, has completed the installation of subsea mooring connectors for Anadarko Petroleum's Heidelberg truss spar platform moored in 5310ft (1620m) of water in field development in the Gulf of Mexico. The 23…
WFS Technologies demonstrated a wirelessly-enabled OneSubsea Subsea Control Module (SCM) at a recent demonstration at NASAs Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) using Seatooth enabled subsea wireless radio products in conjunction with a Seatooth…
Image from Jumbo. Jumbo's J-class vessels Jumbo Jubilee and Fairpartner were scheduled to transport 16 piles to Shell's Prelude field, site of the world's first FLNG vessel, off the coast of northwest Australia…
International oil spill player Aptomar has developed a new method for environmental monitoring, designed for the oil companies to have round the clock monitoring, detection and reporting on unintended oil spills. Image…
