Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) won the second phase of the recent SBRI competition to develop a long endurance marine unmanned surface vehicle (LEMUSV). ASV will undertake the detailed production design, build, commissioning and sea trials of a fully operational…
AW-Lake Company launched its SABRE Turbine flowmeter for the subsea market. To keep the electronics dry and in a pressure-regulated environment, the meter was designed with integral, sealed electronics, allowing more valuable real estate in the subsea electronics module canister…
VIKING Life-Saving Equipment introduced a new dual-approved thermal lifejacket with broad appeal for the offshore and commercial shipping industries operating in harsh, cold environments. The PV9720 has been tested and approved according…
Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE) broadened its range of advanced sealing. The new products are a range of spring seals—elastomer seals which incorporate a spring and are suitable for applications encountering high pressures, high temperatures or aggressive media and environments…
Shell, and its partners, are expecting to boost production with two new deepwater projects at Parque das Conchas (BC-10) and the Bijupirá/Salema fields. 'Offshore Brazil is a key part of our plans to grow our deepwater portfolio – a key component of our global strategy…
Germany’s Raytheon Anschütz launched a new generation, maintenance- free gyro compass. The Horizon MF is a strap-down compass system that uses hemispherical resonator gyros (HRG) to measure angular rates for heading calculation. The system…
Aberdeen-based Nautronix enhanced the functionality of the Nautronix NASDrill USBL acoustic positioning systems by incorporating a new transducer design. The company used its acoustic digital spread spectrum (ADS2) signaling technology to house the hydrophone within a ruggedized…
Engineering and construction firm Foster Wheeler has bought Aberdeen-based upstream consultancy Ingen Ideas. Ingen specializes in field development and project decision support, focused on the evaluation and implementation of oil and gas field developments…
IKM Consultants has taken over Poseidon Consulting Services (PCS) after buying 100% of its shares from Siemens in Norway. Poseidon, which mainly focusses on subsea and pipeline work, has about 150 staff, which will be taken in to IKM's business…
Aberdeen-based Senergy Software rolled out a followup to its geosciences-specific Oilfield Data Manager 3.8 (ODMTM) software. Version 3.8 features an improved user interface and comes equipped with new heatmap and analysis sticks features…
First production has begun at the CNOOC-operated Beibu Gulf Project in the South China Sea. Partner Roc Oil (19.6%) says production from two development wells, A5H and A2 on the WZ 6-12 wellhead platform, follows the successful installation…
Petrovietnam gave an overview of its operations and plans for future development at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston today. The company seeks to grow to meet the expanding energy needs of Vietnam. Dr. Do Van Hua, president and CEO of Petrovietnam…
Aberdeen-based Dana Petroleum has spudded a new exploration well in the Southern North Sea from its De Ruyter platform. Dana is drilling the P11-08 exploration well using the jackup Noble Lynda Bossler, in the production licence P10a…
A new tapered-stress joint is under development by UK-based pipe design and manufacturing firm Magma Global. The company is working alongside major oil companies Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, Statoil, and Petrobras, to develop the joint using Magma’s m-pipe technology…
BP began production from the PSVM development in block 31, off Angola. Three wells at the Plutao field are expected to increase production at PSVM to about 70,000b/d of oil. Output will increase to 150,000b/d once Saturno, Venus, and Marte fields come online later this year and next…
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