Automation systems provider Cougar Automation has developed and commissioned a control system for Balltec to use on the first buoy supported riser (BSR) system installed on Brazil’s Guara-Lula project. Buoy supported riser tether adjustment…
When the West Deep Delta Marine development came onstream offshore Egypt in 1999, it was planned to have a 25-year field life. It’s now on its Phase IXa development, with 58 wells, seven with HIPPS, and 14 manifolds. None have been plugged and abandoned yet…
Aberdeen-based, Hydro Group invested US$454,000 in state-of-the-art machinery, by installing and commissioning an advanced armoring line at its facility in Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, enabling the company to offer cable products which will improve and support subsea operations…
Controls, instrumentation, monitoring and handling systems firm EFC Group has been awarded contracts with major oil and gas drilling contractor companies to the value of £3.65 million. The company has already completed two BOP control system contracts with Ensco worth more £1…
GE has agreed to acquire the Subsea Electric Actuator product line of Oceaneering, a global provider of engineering services and products to the oil and gas industry. The product line goes to market under the Oceaneering Subsea All Electric and Ifokus brand…
Hess Corp. awarded Proserve a contract worth in excess of US$20 million for the provision of a 12-well subsea control system along with associated topside and subsea interface equipment for the deepwater Stampede development, in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM)…
Petrobras awarded GE Oil and Gas a subsea equipment supply contract for pre-salt fields worth approximately US$300 million. The contract includes eight manifolds that will be designed with retrievable injection modules to allow water-alternated gas injection for up to four wells…
Proserv will present a series of global workshops to demonstrate Proserv’s Artemis 2G (A2G). A2G is Proserv’s next generation subsea electronics module for control and monitoring communications that recently resulted in a successful event held in Houston…
Cameron has introduced its new Mark IV system, featuring a redundant, three point-of-distribution (POD) design as an option for its subsea BOPs. Conventional subsea BOP control systems use a two-POD design, providing a single spare if the primary control POD becomes unavailable…
Houston-based Noble Energy has contracted Norway-headquartered Aker Solutions to provide umbilicals and subsea equipment for use in the Gulf of Mexico and offshore Israel. In the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Noble Energy sanctioned two subsea…
FMC Technologies received an order from Eni Muara Bakau BV to supply subsea systems for its deepwater Jangkrik Complex development offshore Indonesia. The order has an estimated value of US $720 million in revenue if the full scope of the award is called off…
Demonstrating how GE technology helps operators extend the life of aging offshore production equipment, GE Oil & Gas is supplying Statoil Petroleum AS with its fifth generation SemStar5 Subsea Electronics Module to upgrade and extend the…
FMC wins TEN order FMC Technologies Inc. received an order from Tullow Ghana Ltd. to supply subsea systems for its Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme Development (TEN) offshore Ghana. The order's estimated value is US$340 million. FMC Technologies’ scope of supply includes subsea trees…
Researchers from Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Scotland have created new software as part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) which helps pre-empt potential faults in subsea technology. Dr. Andrei Petrovski and Professor John McCall…
FMC Technologies, Inc. received an order from Tullow Ghana Ltd to supply subsea systems for its Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme Development (TEN) offshore Ghana. The order has an estimated value of US$340 million in revenue. FMC Technologies' scope of supply includes subsea trees…