Ashtead Technology and Seatronics, providers of subsea equipment rental, sales and services, secured deals with Neptune Oceanographics, adding Neptune’s subsea pipeline leak detection systems and sensors including long range fluorescence and passive acoustics to their rental fleet…
Industrial Internet of Things is out there, but ‘work needs to be done.’ Industrial Internet of Things (IIot) is nebulous term bandied about in just about any conversation when it comes to automation, when in reality, the level of communication…
Stavanger-based Ziebel announced that for the first time in oil and gas history, the Z-Line, a gravity-deployed slim carbon composite cable, was used to acquire meaningful distributed temperature and distributed acoustic fiber optic data during a commercial well intervention…
Statoil has shut its Snohvit LNG plant down because of a gas leak, Reuters has reported. While it is not yet known when the plant will return to production, Statoil Spokesperson Oerjan Heradstveit told the news service: 'The situation is now under control and there is no longer a leak…
As demand for oil and gas increases and shallow plays mature, operators are having to look deeper and further offshore. Drilling in more capricious environments has highlighted the importance of safety measures that can quickly and accurately identify problems remotely using automated technology…
Elaine Maslin reports on Subsea 7’s new autonomous inspection vehicle and an AUV specification that has been put out for tender by French major Total. Subsea 7’s AIV. Images from Subsea 7. Life-of-field autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV)…
Kongsberg Maritime Embient last week received the 2014 Compass International Award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of marine science and technology from the Marine Technology Society (MTS). The German subsea technology specialist and systems integrator…
GE's Measurement and Control business announced it has entered into a cooperation agreement with Atmos International. As part of the partnership, the two companies will offer a more comprehensive leak detection solution to pipeline operating customers…
Optical and even quantum sensing is being assessed to help monitor the subsea oilfields of the future as part of remote sensor networks. Elaine Maslin reports on work in the field by the University of Aberdeen. A…
An OptaSense instrument well with a vibroseis unit conducting OptaSense DAS-VSP. Photos from OptaSense. OptaSense is collaborating with Shell to develop a fully-marinizied DAS system. OptaSense's David Hill explains…
UTEC Survey has advanced its service offering by doubling its AUV fleet to 4 vehicles in response to increasing demand for its highly regarded AUV services, the company reports as it prepares to head to OTC (Houston). The firm now operates a fleet of four…
Repsol and Indra have jointly developed a water-based hydrocarbon leak early detection system, the companies announced on 26 March 2014. The system, called HEADS (Hydrocarbon Early Automatic Detection System) has successfully completed testing at the Repsol Industrial Complex in Tarragon…
Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority is investigating a 'substantial' gas leak that saw production at Statoil’s Hammerfest LNG plant halted at the weekend. Statoil shut down the plant on Melkøya, northern Norway, on Sunday, January 5, because of a leak in the processing facility…
OptaSense, a specialist in distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), is developing the world’s first fully marinised and qualified DAS system in a joint program with Shell. The OptaSense Subsea-DAS system, which will be deployed in water depths of up to 10…
UK-based Groveley Detection Ltd. will join Emerson Process Management’s Rosemount Analytical business unit. Groveley was the first to develop a pieso-electric based ultrasonic gas leak detector engineered for extreme industrial applications…
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