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Bibby Offshore gets Seascape work

Feb 11, 2015

Bibby Offshore Singapore (BOS), will provide remote operated vehicle (ROV) services for Singapore-based Seascape’s DP2 dive support vessel (DSV), the Windermere in a 365-day contract. BOS began working on 5 January to mobilize the Windermere with its ATOM work class ROV…

Applus RTD's Plant Master and DTI Trekscan

Feb 11, 2015

Applus RTD will exhibit its RTD Plant Master technology at several upcoming conferences in the coming months. RTD Plant Master is a permanently installed, monitoring system, based on ultrasound, which provides continuous wall thickness…

"Don't waste a good crisis"

Feb 11, 2015

Subsea industry leaders were told not to 'waste a good crisis' today (February 11), with simplified engineering, a calibration of costs and better collaboration key focus areas. A sense of urgency is needed to re-baseline costs, which should have been addressed already years ago…

Petrobras confirms size of Libra exploration find

Feb 10, 2015

Petrobras said tests confirmed the size of the oil discovery at Libra's first appraisal well, 3-BRSA-1255-RJS (3-RJS-731), informally known as NW-1. Tests at the well, located 185km off Rio de Janeiro, proved an 290m oil column and carbonate reservors of high porosity and permeability…

Ultra deep GoM connector flowing

Feb 10, 2015

The Keathley Canyon Connector is now flowing natural gas in the ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico, according to Williams and DCP Midstream Partners, LP. Map of Keathley Canyon. From Williams.   The…

TenneT takes delivery of HelWin1, BorWin2

Feb 10, 2015

The Prysmian Group and Siemens consortia completed and delivered the BorWin2 and HelWin1 projects to TenneT in the North Sea. Prysmian Group Cableship Giulio Verne operating by the HelWin converters platforms…

Sechin: Oil markets are in acute crisis

Feb 10, 2015

Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin addressed the International Petroleum (IP) Week forum in London, stating that the oil markets are in a fairly acute crisis. Image from Rosneft.   “In the second half of 2014 there was a drop in oil prices…

CNOOC, SK enter China PSCs

Feb 10, 2015

China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), signed two production sharing contracts (PSCs) with SK Innovation Co., Ltd. (SK) for Blocks 04/20 and 17/03 in the South China Sea. The two blocks are located in the Pearl River Mouth basin. Block…

Weatherford MPD rig integration

Feb 10, 2015

Weatherford provides a video illustration of managed pressure drilling (MPD) rig integration, and adjustment to the drilling industry’s technology to address operational obstacles of today’s deepwater projects. Weatherford and Petrobras…

MPD enhances pre-salt drilling

Feb 10, 2015

With the discovery of deepwater pre-salt reservoirs offshore Brazil, national operator Petrobras began complex drilling operations to uncork the massive hydrocarbon reserves under these salt layers, which acted as seals, preventing the oil and gas from escaping…

Goliat en-route to Barents Sea

Feb 10, 2015

Eni's Goliat cyclindrical floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) platform, built in South Korea and now destined for the Barents Sea, has finally been loaded ready for transport to Norway. The 107m-diameter Goliat platform…

BW Offshore uses SafeEx systems

Feb 10, 2015

Danish saftware specialist SafeEx has developed software for Ex inspection and registration now deployed on three FPSOs, with more orders expected.  Traditionally, Ex inspections have been conducted with pen and paper as well as subsequent…

Severn unveils new HIPPS

Feb 10, 2015

Severn Glocon Group is revealing a High Integrity Pressure Protection Systems (HIPPS) for oil and gas topside and subsea applications at Subsea Expo in Aberdeen this week. Severn says the subsea HIPPS will be the first to combine independent…

Searcher agrees DownUnder license

Feb 10, 2015

Searcher Seismic has signed a commercial agreement with DownUnder GeoSolutions to market and license the Monodon Ultracube. The Monodon Ultracube consists of approximately 14,700sq km 3D and 2000km 2D reprocessed data in the prospective Northern Carnarvon Basin of the North West Shelf…

N-Sea launches

Feb 10, 2015

Inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) specialists N-Sea has launched its third diving support daughter craft. The Edradour represents a £1.5 million investment for the company and will be immediately used in its IMR operations across the North Sea…

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