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First Subsea wins Appomattox mooring work

Jul 05, 2016

Subsea mooring specialist First Subsea was awarded a contract by Shell Offshore to supply Ballgrab subsea mooring line connectors for the Appomattox development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The semisubmersible four-column production…

GE completes connector qualification

Jun 08, 2016

GE Oil & Gas has completed the qualification of its upgraded 36kV high voltage wet mate connector. MECON WM 36/500 is designed to offer greater reliability and predictability in subsea power system connections, and can be used with equipment such as transformers…

Hydratight completes pipeline upgrade off West Australia

Jun 06, 2016

Joint integrity specialist Hydratight completed an upgrade project on a section of subsea pipeline for the John Brookes joint venture, on the North West Shelf of Western Australia. Connector being lowered for John Brooke's project…

First Subsea gains ABS mooring connector approval

Apr 28, 2016

Subsea mooring specialist, First Subsea, has achieved American Bureau of Shipping ABS 2009 Approval for its larger R4 steel forgings up to 562mm diameter. According to First Subsea, these are the largest diameter forgings to have received the approval…

UNITECH deploys 3000th UH-500 Connector at Moho

Apr 28, 2016

Subsea distribution systems specialist UNITECH has deployed its 3000th UH-500 Series connector on the Total E&P Congo-operated MOHO Nord subsea project, located around 75km off the coast of Pointe Noire in the Republic of Congo.  First introduced in 1996…

Upping the Amps

Mar 01, 2016

After making a splash on the market with its pinless, wetmate connector Maelstrom in 2013, Elaine Maslin examines how Bergen’s WiSub is upping the game. The Torden pinless wet mate connector.  Small…

DeepOcean welcomes Maersk Connector

Feb 29, 2016

DeepOcean welcomed its advanced cable installation vessel Maersk Connector to North East England for the mobilization of specialist cable handling equipment for projects in the offshore renewables and subsea interconnector sectors. The vessel…

Seacon releases enhances Ruffnek MUX series

Feb 16, 2016

Seacon released its newly designed A259 Ruffnek MUX series as an enhancement to the 7991 Ruffnek MUX series used on subsea BOP systems. Three key changes to the connector design include: Integrating a rubber molded face onto the…

Subsea Expo: Hydratight releases RCIT

Feb 03, 2016

Hydratight, a joint integrity specialist, and Connector Subsea Solutions, a deepwater pipeline specialists, have partnered to design the subsea Riser Cleaning and Inspection Tool (RCIT).  “The RCIT can be deployed either near to or onto the riser where it will traverse into position…

First Subsea installs Heidelberg mooring connectors

Dec 15, 2015

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…

Hydratight seals deal with Subsea 7

Dec 02, 2015

Image: MORGRIP mechanical connector/Hydratight Hydratight has won a pipeline connector order from Subsea 7 to support their Emergency Pipeline Repair System (EPRS) project in Australia…

First Subsea award wind farm contract

Nov 25, 2015

Subsea connector specialist, First Subsea, has been awarded a contract to supply a cable connector for the third phase of the Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Farm Demonstration, offshore Japan. In this latest phase of the project, the connector…

Delmar announces R4 grade subsea connector

Nov 03, 2015

Delmar Systems has announced the availability of an R4 grade subsea connector for high MBL mooring systems. The Delmar subsea connector (DSC) with R4 grade metals increases load capacity by up to 2400 kips from the former R3 version. The…

Trendsetter completes containment project

Aug 12, 2015

Trendsetter Engineering has completed work on a containment toolkit that can be deployed to minimize the environmental impact of a subsea well incident. This follows their delivery of four subsea well capping stacks, designed to shut in an uncontrolled subsea well…

First Subsea completes Goliat installation

Aug 12, 2015

Subsea connector specialist First Subsea, has successfully completed the installation of bend stiffener connections for gas lift and production risers, power cables and umbilicals, for the Goliat FPSO. Operated by ENI Norge, the…

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