FMC Technologies has won a second award for its new subsea multiphase boosting system, this time with Italian giant Eni for its Block 15/06 West Hub Development, off the coast of Angola. The N'Goma…
The oil price crash brings subsea processing opportunities, says Rystad Energy’s Jon Fredrik Müller. The Åsgard subsea compressor manifold station was installed in summer 2013 with the Saipem 7000…
OneSubsea has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract totaling approximately US$300 million from Woodside Energy. OneSubsea will supply a subsea production system and a dual multiphase boosting system for the Greater Enfield Project…
Switzerland-headquartered Sulzer is promoting single-phase boosting supported by subsea separation. The industrial engineering and manufacturing firm launched itself into the subsea separation business in 2014, when it bought Ascom and ProLabNL…
Subsea boosting is coming under the spotlight, despite and also because of the current low oil price environment. Elaine Maslin reports from Subsea Expo and Subsea Valley. Omnirise ECM Subsea Boosting Pump System…
After completing the world’s first wet gas compressor offshore Norway, OneSubsea looks to continue pushing the technology to new limits. The multiphase compressor station during installation. Photos from OneSubsea…
Oil production in the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM) will reach record high levels in 2017, due to some 14 projects starting up during 2015-17, despite low oil prices. Anadarko's Heidelberg. Image from Anadarko…
Transocean’s Deepwater Thalassa has commenced operations on its 10-year contract for Shell’s Stones project in the US Gulf of Mexico this month. The Deepwater Thalassa. Image from Transocean. Stones…
Total has brought on stream its ninth project since the start of this year, its Moho Phase 1b project, 75km off Pointe-Noire, Congo. The project, with 40,000 boe/d production capacity, sits in 750-1200m water depth and comprises 11 new…
NEL, the UK-based flow measurement research and development specialist, has launched a joint industry project (JIP) to meet an urgent industry requirement to address the challenges of accurately measuring highly viscous, multiphase flows…
NEL’s Emmelyn Graham discusses multiphase flow measurement – where is it going and what is needed. NEL’s flow measurement facility. Photos from NEL. Accurately measuring a complex mixture of oil…
Although Houston-based FMC Technologies fell 22% in its 3Q 2015 revenue, the company managed to book US$1 billion in subsea orders, and added US supermajor Chevron to its 20k JIP. FMC ROV. Image from FMC Twitter…
UK supermajor Shell awarded OneSubsea a contract to supply subsea services for the Stones ultra deepwater development project in the Gulf of Mexico. An artist's impression of the Stones FPSO. From SBM Offshore…
The rewards on offer from subsea boosting technology were spelled out at the MCE Deepwater Development Conference in London this spring by Arne B. Olsen, sales director, pumps and subsea processing at OneSubsea. Meg Chesshyre reports. Gullfaks…
Block 17 has shone brightly for French operator Total and its partners. Now with the fourth development – CLOV – in production, Audrey Leon details how lessons learned and local content proved to be key to Total’s success offshore Angola…