Technical consultancy NEL, a division of TÜV SÜD, invested US $767,700 in the development of a new high pressure multiphase flow facility at its Glasgow laboratories in the UK. The facility will operate at pressures up to 60 bar (equivalent…
Höegh FLNG awarded pre-FEED Höegh FLNG Ltd. has been awarded a pre-FEED study for a jetty-moored 2MMTA FLNG near-shore barge for a North American LNG export project. The study will be executed in 2H 2013. Meta wins Shell tiebacks Meta Downhole Ltd…
OMV New Zealand Ltd. awarded DOF Subsea Group a contract for subsea installation services to the Maari Field, Raroa FPSO offshore Taranaki, New Zealand. The project, worth approximately NOK 150 million, will be executed from DOF Subsea’s…
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) provides this film featuring 3D EM vessels the BOA Thalassa and BOA Galatea at work as crews ready deployment of a receiver to the seabed surface.
Fugro announced that it will enter into a new well services joint venture with Malaysia Oilfield Services company Bumi Armada Berhad. The companies will create a team consisting of members of both Fugro and Bumi Armada with skills in marine operations…
Shell picked Technip to provide engineering, procurement, and installation services covering subsea infrastructure at the Stones field in the US Gulf of Mexico. The contract's scope includes installation of the subsea production system and Stones lateral gas pipeline…
Standardization—sounds promising, but what exactly should be standardized and would it hinder innovation? On the opening day of Bergen’s Underwater Technology Conference (UTC) 2013, Kristian Siem, made a striking remark. The chairman…
Total E&P Congo awarded Technip an engineering, procurement, and supply contract for the Moho phase 1bis development as part of the Moho Nord project, off the Republic of Congo. Moho Phase 1bis development is a brownfield development…
Newly released remotely operated vehicle (ROV) statistics from the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) show there has been an increase of members’ ROV-based construction, drill support and cable-laying activities since IMCA started collecting figures on a worldwide basis in 2009…
Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) won the second phase of the recent SBRI competition to develop a long endurance marine unmanned surface vehicle (LEMUSV). ASV will undertake the detailed production design, build, commissioning and sea trials of a fully operational…
AW-Lake Company launched its SABRE Turbine flowmeter for the subsea market. To keep the electronics dry and in a pressure-regulated environment, the meter was designed with integral, sealed electronics, allowing more valuable real estate in the subsea electronics module canister…
OceanTools Ltd. completed a redesign of their MA500 Precision Altimeter. DSP electronics combined with frequency swept CHIRP technology are housed in a hard anodized aluminium housing rated to 3000m as standard. The MA500 uses a new composite…
The US Dept. of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced final details for the Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 233. The sale will take place on August 28 and will cover about 20.7 million acres off Texas for oil and gas exploration and development…
The offshore oil and gas industry has changed tremendously over the last several years. Moving into deeper waters has created challenges in operations that would be considered commonplace in shallow water projects. Deeper water has not only made tasks more complicated…
As subsea production systems are entering a new era, Statoil is finding that designing, qualifying and installing the subsea factory is just the start—the future will require a new breed of vessel, Elaine Maslin explains. Earlier this summer…
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