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Gullfaks subsea compression gets wet - photos and video

Jul 03, 2015

Statoil installed the first subsea wet gas compressor in the world at the Gullfaks C platform in the North Sea after a successful offshore campaign (see video below).  Image: Seaway Heavy Lifting's Oleg Strashnov carrying the protective structure…

4Subsea drills in on flexible pipe corrosion

Jul 03, 2015

The Research Council of Norway has through its Petromaks 2 program awarded 4Subsea funding for a research initiative on corrosion in flexible pipes. The initiative aims at developing new and improved ways of assessing structural integrity…

Ex-Aker firm grabs Johan Sverdrup contracts

Jul 03, 2015

Norway-based Fjords Processing has won three contracts for the deliveries of process systems for the Johan Sverdrup development in the North Sea. The contracts were signed with Statoil on behalf of the Johan Sverdrup license. The scope…

Subsea 7 inks Ichthys contracts

Jul 03, 2015

Subsea 7 has been awarded four contracts by Chevron Australia and INPEX Operations Australia for the engineering, procurement and construction of an emergency pipeline repair system (EPRS) to be used offshore Australia. This EPRS project consists of developing a process of repair…

Technip, Samsung awarded Browse FLNG FEED

Jul 03, 2015

Technip Samsung Consortium has been named as the front-end engineering contract for the Browse floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project in Australia, operated by Woodside. The Browse project will comprise three FLNG units, used to develop the Brecknock…

Gulf Island awarded Trinidad project

Jul 02, 2015

Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. has announced that through its subsidiary Gulf Island LLC, it has signed a contract with an oil and gas company with operations in Trinidad for the fabrication of a jacket and piles for one of its offshore locations…

Spectrum, PGS, Schlumberger in Mexico MOU

Jul 02, 2015

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been executed for a cooperation agreement between Spectrum, PGS and Schlumberger in Mexico. The collaboration will acquire 80,000-100,000km of modern, long-offset 2D data encompassing all the major hydrocarbon provinces offshore Mexico…

Otto mobilizes Maersk Venturer

Jul 02, 2015

Otto Energy has mobilized Maersk Drilling’s ultra-deepwater drillship Maersk Venturer for the Hawkeye-1 exploration well, offshore Philippines. The two companies originally signed a letter of intent back in March 2015.  The Australian explorer says mobilization will begin on 31 July…

Summit ESP launches Sentry Well Surveillance

Jul 02, 2015

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…

Aqualis to open South Korea office

Jul 02, 2015

Aqualis Offshore is to open an office in Busan, South Korea, following increased demand for the company’s services. “Over the past few months we have received an increasing number of work requests from oil services companies, rig operators…

Well Flow names business development VP

Jul 02, 2015

Well Flow International named Osama M. Hasan Baiej as its vice president of business development for the Arabian Gulf and North Africa. Baiej has more than 15 years of experience in business development and strategy, oilfield services…

Seatronics appoints new group managing director

Jul 02, 2015

Seatronics appointed Phil Middleton as its new group managing director. Middleton will be responsible for managing and developing Seatronics’ global business with a particular focus on long-term growth, strategy and compliance. Middleton says…

BP in US$18.7 billion Deepwater Horizon settlement

Jul 02, 2015

After five years, BP reached a US$18.7 billion settlement agreement for the Deepwater Horizon disaster that the UK supermajor will pay over an 18-year period. Transocean's Deepwater Horizon before the explosion…

Det norske appraises Ivar Aasen

Jul 02, 2015

Det norske completed the drilling of appraisal wells 16/1-22 S, 16/1-22 A and 16/1-22 B on the Ivar Aasen field, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The field is in the central part of the North Sea and was proven in 2008…

SafeEx launches SafeEx Software genII

Jul 02, 2015

Danish software company SafeEx has launched the second generation of the SafeEx Software. The new version of the software is tablet-based and makes it both easier and more efficient to carry out Ex-inspections, as the technological functionalities…

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