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Statoil unveils "next generation" subsea concept

Apr 20, 2016

Statoil has launched Cap-X, a new subsea development concept designed to reduce cost and increase efficiency.  The Norwegian oil giant, more than half of whose production comes from some 500 subsea wells, has already been exploring ways to reduce subsea development costs…

Trelleborg gets Shah Deniz order

Mar 02, 2016

Trelleborg’s offshore operation has been awarded an order for thermal insulation and corrosion coating services for phase II of the BP Project, Shah Deniz, contracting directly to Azeri firm BOS Shelf. The contract is expected to begin in 2015 and run until approximately 2022…

Oil & Gas UK: Norway decom set to grow

Feb 16, 2016

Norway’s decommissioning market has the potential to be the second largest in the North Sea after the UK Continental Shelf, according to Oil & Gas UK’s first Norwegian Continental Shelf Decommissioning Insight report. The report, which provides a forecast for the region over the next decade…

Wood Group inks Chevron extension

Feb 09, 2016

Wood Group has secured an extension to continue to support Chevron Upstream Europe across four offshore assets in the North Sea. Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will deliver operations and maintenance services to the Alba Northern platform, Alba floating storage unit…

Woodside picks FMC for subsea supply

Jan 26, 2016

FMC Technologies has signed an agreement with Woodside for the design, manufacture and supply of subsea production systems for the Greater Western Flank Phase 2 (GWF-2) Project as part of the North West Shelf (NWS) Project in Western Australia…

Woodside approves Greater Western Flank off Australia

Dec 11, 2015

North West Shelf (NWS) operator Woodside Petroleum said project participants have approved the Greater Western Flank Phase 2 (GWF-2) development off the northwest coast of Australia. GWF-2 will develop 1.6 Tcf of raw gas from the combined Keast…

Statoil fires up Gullfaks wet compression first

Oct 12, 2015

Norwegian firms have chalked up yet another subsea first on the country's continental shelf. Just weeks after Statoil brought the Aasgard subsea gas compression project online, on 17 September, Statoil has announced it has now also started…

Johan Sverdrup costs drop by US$1 billion

Sep 25, 2015

Statoil is cutting costs by more than US$1 billion (NOK 9 billion) for the first phase of its giant Johan Sverdrup development in the North Sea, partner Det Norske said. Illustration of Johan Sverdrup…

Bibby completes two UKCS decommissionings

Sep 09, 2015

Bibby Offshore, a subsea services provider, has delivered two multimillion dollar decommissioning contracts to the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). Endeavour Energy appointed Bibby Offshore to perform operations in the Renee and Rubie fields…

DOF picks up Chevron IMR contract

Mar 12, 2015

Chevron Australia has awarded DOF Subsea Asia Pacific a three years master services agreement, IMR contract to work on projects on the Australian North West Shelf.  DOF Subsea will deploy the DP vessel Skandi Protector to undertake this work supported by an extensive management…

Wintershall takes over Vega

Mar 04, 2015

Germany's Wintershall has taken over the operatorship of the subsea oil and gas field Vega from Statoil as it gears up to develop the Maria field. Vega is the BASF subsidiary’s first operated subsea tie-in field in Norway. With this transfer…

FMC inks $280m Wintershall deal

Oct 07, 2014

FMC Technologies' Norwegian subsidiary FMC Kongsberg Subsea has agreed a frame agreement deal with Germany's Wintershall to supply subsea equipment on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, starting with a US$280 million project on the Maria development…

ONS: Aker leads contract winning pack

Aug 27, 2014

Aker Solutions, with a total of 51 contracts, is leading the field on contracts won on the UK Continental Shelf (UKS) and Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) over the past four years, according to the latest report from the Energy Industry Council (EIC)…

Subsea 7 AIV completes trials

Aug 13, 2014

Subsea 7’s Autonomous Inspection Vehicle (AIV) has successfully completed its first test mission in the UK North Sea for Shell, the firm announced today (13 August).   A series of field trials were undertaken from Subsea 7 vessel the…

Subsea 7 selects BMT for Aasta Hansteen

Jun 26, 2014

Subsea 7 has selected BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, to supply the riser monitoring system for the Aasta Hansteen Spar, about 300km off the coast of Norway.  The integrated system includes an innovative…

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