Northern Ireland-headquartered pipeline decommissioning specialist Decom Engineering has opened a new facility near Aberdeen as it wants to target new North Sea oil and gas clients. The investment valued at more than £250,000 is expected to allow faster deployment of Decom’s assets to clients workin
Pipeshield International, a Tekmar Group company, has been granted a patent for its SUPER-MAT high payload multi-lift concrete mattresses solution. Designed as a lifting device when used with Pipeshield’s heavy-duty quick-release frames, the SUPER-MAT enables the handling of mattresses in stacks, pr
CRP Subsea has delivered more than 500 innovative buckle mitigation rotating buoyancy modules (RBMs) to protect Gulf of Mexico flowlines. The RBMs, produced at CRP Subsea’s manufacturing facility in Skelmersdale, England, will protect the pipeline by allowing it to roll on the seabed reducing latera
Subsea 7 has secured what it says is a “substantial” contract to provide subsea installation services for Beacon Offshore Energy’s Shenandoah development in the Gulf of Mexico. The project covers the tie-back of four subsea wells to the Shenandoah host facility through a subsea manifold with dual fl
The UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has awarded £31.6 million (approximately €37.7 million) in grant funding to eleven projects through the Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) Demonstration Programme. With an aim of reducing costs as well as increasing the rate of deployme
Brazil’s Petrobras has awarded TechnipFMC with a subsea engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for its Búzios 6 field (module 7) greenfield development in the Santos Basin pre-salt area. The scope of the contract includes flexible and rigid pipe, umbilicals, pipeline
DeepOcean has placed an order with Norway’s Imenco for 96 underwater cameras for its entire fleet of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The contract, which is Imenco’s largest single contract to date in the underwater camera market, will see DeepOcean mount all the cameras on its ROVs over the next
Petrobras, the operator of the Libra consortium, has started contracting suppliers for the design, construction, installation and testing of the High-Pressure Separation technology (HISEP) that aims to separate and reinject gas with high CO2 content produced alongside the oil while still on the seab
Norwegian offshore contractor BOA OCV has secured a new contract for the subsea construction vessel BOA Sub C with who it describes as a “large international contractor”. The scope of the contract includes construction and decommissioning projects in the North Sea. Commencement is expected in May fo
Asso Group has taken over the dive support and construction vessel (DSCV) SBM Installer, following a purchase agreement with SBM Offshore. The vessel was delivered to Asso Group on 19 January in Algeciras, Spain, and was renamed Athena, hoisting the Greek flag. Over the next days, it will be re-clas
Sonardyne has received multiple orders for its hybrid acoustic and inertial position reference systems to be installed on a number of deepwater vessels operating in the energy and ocean research sectors. Offshore drilling contractor Noble Drilling ordered a 6G upgrade to the Marksman system onboard
Norway, the global subsea tie-back leader, is set for an inflation-driven cost increase of $6.5 billion on upcoming contract awards for goods and services in the offshore oil and gas industry through 2026, according to Rystad Energy’s latest report. During the five-year period, about 275 subsea tree
Subsea 7 has received DNV Technology Certification for its Swagelining polymer lined riser product, said to be a world first. According to Subsea 7, the qualification programme was designed to address the challenges presented by the dynamic service environment and vertical orientation of the riser p
Prysmian has entered into a Limited Notice to Proceed (LNTP) for the supply of power cables for what is said to be the first-of-its-kind high-voltage, direct current (HVDC-VSC) subsea power transmission system in the Middle East. Prysmian received the €220 million LNTP from Samsung C&T as part of it
