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…
Power requirements are not always huge, nor are companies – and sometimes smaller can be better. Elaine Maslin reports on work to qualify lower power subsea variable speed drives. The 45kW subsea variable speed drive…
The big surprise over the last few weeks was of course the UK referendum decision to exit the European Union (EU). At first sight, it looks like a vote for independence over economics. While the first part of that is certainly true, the economic aspect should be measured in years…
Statoil is applying new concepts and new thinking to the Johan Castberg development on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. It’s a DC fiber optic future, Elaine Maslin reports. Transocean’s Polar Pioneer semisub drilled the Skrugard prospect in 2011…
Osbit has successfully completed and loaded out US$3.96 million (£3 million) worth of well intervention equipment to Helix Energy Solutions, for installation in Schiedam on Helix’s chartered Siem Helix 1 vessel. The multi-million dollar…
Transocean has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding common units of Transocean Partners not already owned by Transocean in a share-for-unit merger transaction that will also see the Houston-based company takeover three vessels. In the merger…
In this video, Anadarko talks about its Heidelberg project, in the Green Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico. Heidelberg, which came onstream four months ahead of schedule in January 2016, is an 80,000 b/d floating production facility…
Dutch heavy weight Allseas has successfully completed commissioning of the topsides lift system on its heavy lift mega-vessel the Pioneering Spirit. The massive, twin-hull US$2.7 billion vessel has also completed the major part of the…
Statoil's Aasta Hansteen Spar development substructure has reached its complete form in its yard in South Korea. The Spar will be the world's largest Spar platform weighing in at a whopping 70,000-tonne, and Norway's first Spar development…
Offshore workers working for Wood Group on Shell platforms are planning further strike action, scheduled for 4 August, as they continue a dispute over cuts. Workers in the Unite and RMT unions held a 24-hour strike on Tuesday 26 July…
Plant Integrity Management (PIM) has won a new five-year contract with Nexen, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC. The contract will see PIM provide inspection management services on Nexen’s North Sea assets, including delivering integrity management services covering pressure systems…
James Fisher Group has acquired Lexmar Sat Systems for up to US$20 million. Founded in Singapore in 1996, Lexmar is a specialist provider of service and support of diving equipment and saturated diving systems. James Fisher will pay US$13…
Elaine Maslin examines new UK government funded seismic shoots and data reprocessing, all free to the industry, which are among initiatives aimed at boosting UK Continental Shelf exploration. Seismic…
Assessing the condition of pipelines, especially as they get older, is an increasing task. John Sheehan surveys potential solutions. Tracerco’s Discovery tool. Image from Tracerco. The…
Dutch firms Frames and Royal IHC are taking a step into the deep, quite literally, as well as figuratively. Elaine Maslin sets out the detail. 3D model of the SwirlSep with explanation. Photos from Frames…
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