Quadrant Energy has encountered a 10m section of elevated gas readings its Roc-2 well, in addition to moderate fluorescence that indicates exploration potential in the area offshore Western Australia. Map of Roc-2…
Quadrant Energy has commenced drilling of the Roc-2 well, offshore Western Australia, said partner Carnarvon Petroleum. The main aims of the Roc-2 well are to appraise the Roc gas-condensate discovery in the Caley section. The information…
Pipeline flushing is being given a breath of fresh supercritical CO2, thanks to technology developed by Denmark’s Ocean Team. A SCCO2 unit from Ocean Team. Photo from Ocean Team. Pipeline…
Offshore handling systems firm Caley Ocean Systems is supplying Singapore based, diving and subsea equipment company Flash Tekk Engineering with saturation dive bell handling systems for its client Ultra Deep Solutions’ vessels Deep Installer and Van Gogh dive support construction vessels (DSCV)…
UK-based geotechnical and marine firm MG3 has purchased the DP2 vessel Ocean Spirit complete with a geotechnical site investigation equipment spread. MG3 took delivery of the multirole DP2 vessel Ocean Spirit (formerly Highland Spirit)…
Fugro and technology partner Areté Associates have successfully delivered near real-time, synoptic, surface current data to characterize loop current and loop current eddy conditions in the US Gulf of Mexico during a period of intense current conditions…
Surface to seabed specialist, Seanamic Group, is expanding its global umbilicals business with a new Umbilical International facility in Glasgow, the frim revealed at Subsea Expo in Aberdeen. Image from Seanamic Group…
Leading international classification society Bureau Veritas has issued its first Approval in Principle for an ocean thermal energy converter (OTEC). The approval applies to a 1MW plant developed by the Korea Research Institute of Ships and…
A portable Intervention Work Over Control System (IWOCS) deployment system developed by Caley Ocean Systems has been used to successfully test the manifold functions on four deepwater subsea manifolds post installation. Image…
ABB is to deliver total power solutions to Ocean Rig’s two new seventh generation integrated design mobile offshore drilling units (MODU), being built by Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) at Goeje shipyard in Korea. The contract includes…
Crowley Maritime Corp. will christen the new ocean-class tug, the Ocean Sky, in Houston tomorrow. The 156-ft long Ocean Sky is the fourth of Crowley's new ocean-class tugs to leave the Bollinger shipyard, following its sister ship, the Ocean Sun…
GDF Suez E&P Norge AS awarded the subsea operation support services contract to IKM Ocean Design. The contract involves operational management, administration and execution support of Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) for the Gjøa sealines system…
Norwegian-based subsea contractor Ocean Installer AS has awarded GE Oil & Gas a contract to supply subsea tie-in connection systems that will support the development of the Gina Krog and Eirin gas fields in the Norwegian North Sea. Statoil Petroleum AS…
A deployment system for the installation of large-diameter, reinforced, bonded rubber hose offloading lines for catenary anchor leg mooring buoys has been developed by floating production and mooring systems company SBM Offshore and handling systems specialist Caley Ocean Systems…
One-trip solutionBaker Hughes last summer deployed a drilling system featuring a TORXS expandable liner hanger package with an EZCase casing bit system to assist an operator bedeviled by a problem zone. The unidentified operator was unable to…