BG Group began production at the Knarr field in the North Sea, seven years after its discovery. In this video, BG Group takes you to the process to get to this month, where its first floating vessel development is expected to deliver vital resources to the European energy market…
First production has started from the BG Group-operated Knarr field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Knarr, discovered in 2008, with estimated gross recoverable reserves around 80 MMboe, is being produced from two subsea templates…
Chevron Brasil extended the contract for Skandi Salvador and IRM services for the remainder of 2015. The extension is a direct continuation of the current contract. The vessel has been operating for Chevron on the Frade oil field since delivery of the vessel in 2009…
AWE Ltd. began the Pateke-4H subsea tieback and installation project offshore New Zealand. Map from AWE. Pateke-4H is located in the offshore Taranaki basin, in the PMP 38158 permit area…
Susan Gourvenec outlines toolbox approach for optimizing geotechnical design of subsea foundations Fig. 1: Evolution of offshore architecture. Image created by M Cocjin, COFS, UWA. Subsea…
Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd. (MOUK) awarded Ampelmann a contract to use its motion compensation gangways (MCG). MOUK will use the Ampelmann system for a shutdown campaign in the UK sector of the central North Sea to extend the weather window and increase workability and efficiency…
Netherlands based lifting, drilling and subsea solutions firm Huisman and Brazilian shipping company and shipyard group Grupo CBO have signed a contract for the delivery of four anchor handling and towing winch packages for four new Havyard 843 AHTS vessels…
DOF Subsea, a subsidiary of DOF ASA, has been awarded several contracts in the North America region by key clients and oil majors in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract awards will give a utilization of the chartered-in vessels Ross Candies…
Kongsberg Maritime’s Hugin autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) will provide offshore operation services to several survey providers including DOF Subsea of Norway, Fugro Geoservices of Lafayette US, Northwest Maritime of Norway and AXA Engehnaria Submarina of Brazil…
Alan Thorpe examines the latest offshore construction vessels to enter the market. The two Island Offshore vessels in Lloyd Werft. Photo by Alan Thorpe. This Spring, Norway’s…
DOF Subsea UK has started work on two major construction projects off West Africa for Italy’s Saipem. DOF Subsea is supplying its 107.1m-long DSV Skandi Singapore and project crew, along with project management and technical support; specialist survey services…
Aker Oilfield Solidtions, a part of newly spun-off firm Akastor, has been notified of a five-year contract extension from Petrobras to use the Skandi Santos, a subsea equipment support Vessel in Brazil. The extension, worth about NOK2…
DOF Subsea's UK business unit has been awarded and started work on a multi-million dollar contract with Italy's Saipem. The scope sees the provision of DOF Subsea’s dive support vessel Skandi Singapore and project crew, to complete two key construction projects offshore West Africa…
Vard Holdings Ltd. awarded Houston-based Forum Energy Technologies (FET) a contract for eight remotely operated vehicles (ROV) systems. FET will supply eight Perry XLX 150HP work-class ROVs that will be mobilized on four new-build pipeline…
DOF Subsea has been awarded multiple contracts, worth a total NOK830 million. In Asia Pacific, DOF Subsea has been awarded several contracts including project management and engineering, inspection, maintenance and repair services and subsea installation work…