Andrew Hodgson is stepping down as CEO of Tyneside-based subsea engineering firm Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD). He will be will be succeeded by his deputy Mike Jones from 23 October. Jones has worked for SMD for over 25 years. A director since 2004…
Shell has submitted plans to develop the Fram gas and gas condensate field in the UK North Sea as a subsea tieback to the Shearwater platform. The project, in Blocks 29/3a, 29/4c, 29/8a, 29/9c in the Central North Sea, had been considered as a standalone development…
Premier Oil's Catcher development is on track for first oil by the end of the year with the project's floating production vessel now moored in field. The BW Catcher vessel, built at the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore, and owned and operated by BW Offshore…
MODEC has signed a contract for supply, charter, and operations of a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel with Brazil's Petrobras on 13 October 2017. The firm charter period of the contract is 21 years. The FPSO will be deployed at the Sépia field operated by Petrobras…
Aker Solutions says it has won a >US$200 million (NOK 1.6 billion) order to deliver the largest umbilicals system ever - without naming the client or project. The contract is for the delivery of 250km of steel-tube umbilicals linking a subsea development to an existing offshore platform…
New figures released by the US Coast Guard (USCG) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) show that approximately 16,000 bbl (672,000 gallons) of oil have discharged from a damaged pipeline, operated by Louisiana’s LLOG Exploration…
Seanamic Group has bought Aberdeen based flexible pipelines and umbilicals integrity management firm Flexlife. Seanamic was founded in 2014, and has since added Caley Ocean Systems, Umbilicals International, and most recently IMES Group…
Subsea 7 and Sapura Energy have agreed to end their Asia Pacific focused SapuraAcergy joint venture (JV), with the JV's heavy-lift and pipelay vessel, Sapura 3000, sold to a subsidiary of Sapura Energy. The JV was set up in 2006, with SapuraCrest Petroleum…
An investigation has started into an oil leak from a subsea pipeline near US operator LLOG's Delta House facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. The leak was discovered last week after a sheen was seen on the surface of the water and reported to the National Response Centre…
Oceaneering International has taken delivery of an 800-tonne SWL (safe working load) reel drive system (RDS) from northeast Scotland-based Maritime Developments (MDL). The modular system will be used to deploy and retrieve subsea umbilical…
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is leading a joint industry project (JIP), supported by the Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF), to provide industry with a better understanding of the mechanism of hydrate growth and blockages…
Global Marine Group has agreed to acquire Fugro’s trenching and cable lay services business for about US$73 million in shares. The acquisition of Fugro’s trenching and cable lay services business involves the transfer of 23 Aberdeen-based Fugro staff and one vessel (Symphony)…
Norwegian seismic services company Magseis has awarded subsea technology manufacturer Sonardyne International UK a contract for seabed node acoustic positioning technology to support an expansion in its deepwater survey activities. SST 6…
Jan De Nul Group has begun preparations for the subsea cable laying work for ADMA-OPCO’s NASR Full Field Development Package 2 Project off the coast of Abu Dhabi in the Arabian Gulf. Isaac Newton…
Ophir Energy has awarded an upstream construction for its Fortuna floating LNG project - west Africa's first deepwater FLNG project - to Schlumberger company OneSubsea and Subsea 7's Subsea Integration Alliance. The contract is an engineering…
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