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InterMoor Brazil increases capabilities

Nov 01, 2016

InterMoor has added inspection and testing capabilities to its marine base at the Açu Superport in São João da Barra, northern Rio de Janeiro.  The base now has a 1000-ton test bed and can perform load and breaking test for chain, wire rope…

Optime gets hyperbaric testing system contract

Nov 01, 2016

Optime Subsea Services has signed a contract with an undisclosed US-based customer to supply a new hyperbaric testing system that simulates hydrostatic pressures found at water depths up to 14,000m. The 20,000psi hyperbaric pressure vessel…

SMOP awards Novenco Culzean work

Nov 01, 2016

Novenco has signed a contract with Singaporean contractor SMOP for delivery of HVAC equipment of air handling units (AHUs), fans and cooling equipment for the construction of the three platforms in the Culzean gas field in the UK sector of the North Sea…

WFS, TSC release Seatooth ACFM

Nov 01, 2016

WFS Technologies and TSC have launched Seatooth ACFM (alternating current field measurement), a wireless smart non-destructive testing monitoring solution designed to reduce subsea inspection costs.  TSC‘s ACFM array probe is a well-established…

Cutting umbilical costs

Nov 01, 2016

Ian Probyn outlines measures taken by Technip Umbilicals to reduce the cost of long-length umbilical projects. A mid-line joint.  Despite the low oil price, a number of long-length…

Sky-Futures, Flyability launch Expanse-Elios package

Oct 31, 2016

Sky-Futures and Flyability have partnered up to bring to market a fully integrated solution for drone-based industrial inspection. The Flyability Elios is the collision-tolerant drone allowing access to complex and confined spaces where manned entry is not possible or desirable…

Quadrant moves to Phoenix South-2

Oct 25, 2016

Quadrant Energy’s Phoenix South-2 (PS-2) well is expected to commence in the next seven days to appraise the Phoenix South-1 oil discovery in the Barret Sandstone and evaluate the deeper Caley Sandstone, akin to the Roc field, for gas and condensate…

MODEC upgrades Brazil FPSOs communications

Oct 24, 2016

O3b Networks, technology solutions company RigNet and floating production service provider MODEC, have agreed to provide high-throughput, low latency connectivity for MODEC’s floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels off the coast of Brazil…

Huisman cranes bound for Asia

Oct 24, 2016

Huisman, a specialist in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions, secured a contract from Japan Marine United Corp. for the delivery of one 800-tonne pedestal mounted crane (PMC) and a contract from Jurong Shipyard for the delivery of one 100-tonne pedestal mounted offshore crane (PMOC)…

Petrobel orders Siemens turbines for Zohr

Oct 24, 2016

Dresser-Rand received an order from Egypt-based Belayim Petroleum Co. (Petrobel) for three model SGT-400 industrial gas turbines, including associated electrical generators.  Petrobel, a joint venture formed by Italy-based Eni, and Egypt’s General Petroleum Corp…

PGS adds another supercomputer

Oct 18, 2016

PGS has added another Cray XC supercomputer to its Houston Mega Center. The computer is named PGS Galois after the French mathematician Évariste Galois (1811-1832), and comes in addition to the Cray XC supercomputer PGS Abel delivered last year…

Scotrenewables installs tidal turbine at EMEC

Oct 13, 2016

The 2MW SR2000 tidal turbine, developed and manufactured by Scottish engineering company Scotrenewables Tidal Power, has been installed on its moorings for the first time at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Orkney as part of site commissioning and testing…

Emerson releases new multiphase flow meter

Oct 11, 2016

Emerson Automation Solutions has introduced the Roxar MPFM 2600 M multiphase flow meter. The Roxar MPFM 2600 M is designed to be a flexible and easily manageable wellhead measurement solution based on a field-proven technology platform. The…

Optime Subsea Services merges with Telemark Technologies

Oct 11, 2016

Optime Subsea Services, subsea technology company, will merge with engineering house Telemark Technologies to fast-track its subsea installation solution.   Telemark Technologies is a supplier of pressurized vessel systems for testing operations of subsea…

FES delivers DBSCs to Altanta field

Oct 06, 2016

FES International delivered nine diverless bend stiffener connectors (DBSC) to the Atlanta field in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, operated by Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção (QGEP). The DBSCs, a part of a multi-million dollar contract between FES and QGEP…

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