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Increased Output Rates, Carbon Storage: Halliburton, TGS in Reservoir Monitoring Tech Collab

May 18, 2021

U.S. oilfield services giant Halliburton and Norway-based offshore seismic data firm TGS have teamed up to bring advanced seismic imaging to fiber optic sensing with the aim of helping oil firms boost output rates, but also explore carbon storage options…

Tampnet Buys BP's Offshore Fiber Cable System in Gulf of Mexico

Apr 07, 2021

Norway-based Tampnet which operates offshore high-capacity communication networks has completed the acquisition of BP's Gulf of Mexico (GoM) offshore fiber cable network, in what Tampnet says is one of the most significant milestones in the history of the company…

LYTT Tech Boosts Output at BP's Clair Ridge Offshore Platform

Mar 22, 2021

LYTT, an energy tech company, said Monday its technology has helped improve production up to 2,000 barrels per day (bpd) at BP's Clair Ridge offshore platform, west of Shetland, UK.Clair Ridge is the second phase of development of the giant…

Orange Marine Orders Cable Repair Vessel

Feb 12, 2021

French submarine cables services company Orange Marine has ordered a new cable repair vessel for delivery in 2023.The specialized newbuild was designed by VARD in Norway and will be built at Sri Lankan shipyard Colombo Dockyard. The 1,800 dwt vessel is 100 meters long with a beam of 18…

Ex-Tendeka CTO Joins Well-SENSE as New CEO

Feb 05, 2021

Aberdeen-based downhole sensing technology company, Well-SENSE, has appointed Annabel Green as its new CEO.Well-SENSE said Green would help the company to accelerate its global business strategy and drive further adoption of its proven downhole sensing technology…

Seaway 7 to Convert 'Seven Phoenix' into Cable Layer

Sep 30, 2020

Seaway 7, the renewables business unit of Subsea 7, is expanding its renewables fleet with a second cable lay vessel.The company, which has access to Subsea 7's pool of vessels, said Wednesday that the Seven Phoenix vessel would be converted…

JDR to Link Two Azeri Platforms with Fiber Optic Power Cable

Sep 29, 2020

Subsea cable supplier JDR has won a contract with BP to manufacture and supply a 5.5km 33kV fiber optic power cable and a steel tube subsea isolation valve (SSIV) umbilical, for a platform project, offshore Azerbaijan.The 33 kV fiber optic power…

Halliburton, TechnipFMC Launch Acoustic Sensing Solution for Subsea Wells

Jul 09, 2020

Oilfield services giants Halliburton and TechnipFMC have jointly introduced Odassea, described as the first distributed acoustic sensing solution for subsea wells. The technology platform enables operators to execute intervention-less seismic…

Connecting Completions

Mar 16, 2020

Forewarned is forearmed, an adage that is particularly true when it comes to deepwater drilling. Offshore drillers are increasingly relying on existing and new downhole data technologies to make real-time decisions and keep operations safe.Multi…

Shedding (Fiber) Light on Wells

Feb 20, 2020

On the surface, in-well surveillance and monitoring seems like an obvious and beneficial thing to do. Learning about what’s happening in wells can mean operators can make them produce more, change injection or gas-lift, methodologies, unlock shut-in wells…

Simec: Tidal Power Hits Record at MeyGen

Jan 31, 2020

The developer of renewable and sustainable energy projects, Simec Atlantis Energy, has hailed progress at its MeyGen project – announcing that its 2019 performance represents a record period of uninterrupted generation from a tidal turbine venture of its kind…

Deep Down to Repair Umbilicals for Two Oil Operators

Jan 10, 2020

Subsea equipment specialist Deep Down has received orders from two independent oil and gas operators for emergency umbilical repairs in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and West Africa. The company said Friday that both projects included design, engineering…

Nexans Designs Power Umbilicals for OneSubsea

Dec 02, 2019

OneSubsea, the subsea technologies, production and processing systems division of Schlumberger, has contracted Nexans to design and supply two 120-km (75-mi) power umbilicals for a subsea multiphase compression system at Norske Shell’s Ormen Lange gas field in the Norwegian Sea…

Mooring Cables for LoVe Ocean Observatory

Nov 05, 2019

With extensive experience in designing and manufacturing underwater custom cables, NOVACAVI has recently supplied a couple of specially engineered mooring cables for the Lofoten-Vesterålen Cabeled Ocean Observatory.The Lofoten-Vesterålen Cabeled…

Transmark Subsea Acquires WiSub

Oct 15, 2019

Transmark Subsea announced on Tuesday it has acquired fellow Norwegian underwater environment company WiSub.Transmark Subsea manufactures cable systems for distribution of electrical signals, power and fiber optics to the offshore subsea industry…

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