First Subsea Ltd. launched its Series III Ballgrab ball and taper mooring connectors. The connector’s male mandrels are in compliance with the ABS 2009 approval for specialist subsea mooring connectors. First Subsea is the first manufacturer…
Kongsberg Maritime launched the Kongsberg Seaglider™ AUV at AUVSI 2013. This AUV is a low-cost device, with long endurance, and capable of deployment durations in excess of nine months. The technology uses changes in buoyancy for thrust,…
Germany’s Raytheon Anschütz released its latest gyro compass, the Standard 22, which ensures accuracy and reliability under all environmental conditions. Operational safety was dramatically increased due to a patented data transmission technology that completely replaces the use of slip rings…
Three styles of modular fluid distribution manifolds were launched by Parker Hannifin. Two of the manifolds, the Hi-Pro Distribution Manifold (up to 6000 psi) and the Hi-Pro Air Header Manifold (up to 800psi), are based on ball valves for quick on-off control…
Growing numbers of subsea wells in increasingly deeper waters will continue to drive the market for well intervention capabilities. Infields’ James Hearn outlines the market. Depleting oil and gas reserves within established shallow water…
The US Coast Guard updated decades old regulations regarding offshore cranes and inspection practices. Anthresia McWashington takes a look at the changes to come. The US Coast Guard (USCG) recently proposed revisions to the design, certification…
The US Gulf of Mexico (GOM) has clearly returned to the spotlight as one of the hottest offshore regions in the world. The impact of Macondo appears to be in the past and the number of both drilling rigs and major production projects are increasing…
Shallow water subsea systems can be an ideal solution for improving marginal field net present value. Jerry Streeter, Field Development Manager, for FMC Technologies, Inc., explains. Very little has been published recently on shallow…
Repsol Exploration Norge AS, operator of production license (PL) 541, has completed drilling of wildcat well 4/4-1, located about 60km east of the Trym field in the southern part of the North Sea. The well is dry. The objective of the…
More needs to be done to develop Russian subsea production capabilities in order to develop hydrocarbon resources in Russia’s arctic seas, SPE Arctic & Extreme heard in Moscow yesterday. According Gazprom, there is an estimated 21-46Billion tons of oil and 36…
Transocean Ltd. announced it has been awarded a five-year contract for a newbuild dynamically positioned, ultra-deepwater drillship by Chevron U.S.A. Inc. Shipyard delivery is scheduled for the second quarter of 2016. After customer acceptance…
Lundin Petroleum, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Lundin Norway, posts the completion of wildcat well 6608/2-1S. The well was drilled in PL330 about 60km east-southeast of the Aasta Hansteen gas field in the Norwegian Sea. The exploration well 6608/2-1S…
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) completed the sale of its Australian harbor towage business to Smit Lamnalco. The sale had already been announced in August 2013 as part of a strategic realignment of the towage activities. Boskalis…
The US Senate bill ratifying the US-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement, S. 812, is reportedly on its way to a conference committee. The Senate's version of the bill, passed October 12, differed from that of the US House of Representative’s version…
FMC Technologies, Inc. received an order from Tullow Ghana Ltd to supply subsea systems for its Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme Development (TEN) offshore Ghana. The order has an estimated value of US$340 million in revenue. FMC Technologies' scope of supply includes subsea trees…
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