ABT Oil & Gas (ABTOG) has signed a Collaboration Agreement Aberdeen based engineering firm Apollo Offshore Engineering on its marginal field delivery consortium. Apollo will join the Marginal Field Delivery Consortium providing expertise…
Netherlands-based, Huisman announced today that André Meijer is appointed as CEO effective 1 August 2015. This appointment follows the decision of Joop Roodenburg to step down as the company’s CEO this year and become the company's chief technology officer…
James Fisher Offshore, part of James Fisher and Sons, has reached an agreement with KPMG in Scotland to acquire a number of subsea assets free from encumbrances from Specialist Subsea Services. The assets include work-class ROVs, inspection class ROV and survey equipment…
UK supermajor BP awarded Cape a US$153.5 million two-year contract to supply services on six North Sea assets and the Forties Pipeline Systems. According to Cape, the company will provide a range of core services, including access, insulation…
Oil & Gas UK appointed Deirdre Michie as its new chief executive on 1 May 2015. Michie will replace Malcolm Webb who, following a brief handover period, formally retires on 31 May 2015. Appointed by the board of Oil & Gas UK in February 2015…
Maritime Developments, based in Peterhead, Scotland, has released its first four-track, 75-tonne pipeline tensioner, not long after shipping out the third of a 50-tonne version of the unit, which took center stage at Subsea Expo in Aberdeen in February…
Researchers at Norway’s SINTEF together with a consortium of industrial partners have developed technologies to enable real-time condition monitoring reports from within pipelines to be transmitted to shore. SmartPipe launched in 2006…
Jeannie Stell looks at offshore heavy oil development economics with an eye on the current low-price environment. ExxonMobil expects its 52-well Hebron development project offshore Newfoundland to bring in first oil in 2017…
The subsea factory could be here sooner than many believe and Danish firm Danfoss is helping drive the innovation that will make it happen. Emma Gordon reports. Chemical inhibitor system. Photos from Danfoss…
Italy is sitting on sizeable untapped gas resources, yet it still imports a large proportion of its gas. Elaine Maslin reports from the Offshore Mediterranean Conference, Ravenna. Bruno Lescoeur…
Infield Systems’ Catarina Podevyn takes a look at recent oil price movements and market conditions on the deepwater (500m+) capex spending up to 2019. Olympus platform in deepwater US Gulf of Mexico…
Polymer-lined pipe has been around since the 1990s, but its potential has yet to be fully tapped, according to those behind JIPs to extend use of this technology. Mostafa Tantawi and David Whittle explain. Swagelinings enior…
Hardfacing has been given a tungsten carbide boost thanks to chemical vapor deposition technology developed in Russia. Elaine Maslin explains. Hardide reactor loading to perform the CVD process…
Calibrating the 64 load cells on the Snorre A tension leg platform was a lengthy arduous task, until a new solution, installed late 2014, was found. Elaine Maslin reports. The Snorre A tension leg platform…
Subsea trenching has become more versatile with Fugro and SMD’s Q1400. Mike Daniel explains. Launching the Fugro Q1400 trenching system. Photos from Fugro Subsea. It is important to bury wind farm cables…
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