Ashtead Technology Offshore, a leading international subsea equipment solutions specialist, has announced its move to new global headquarters in Westhill, Aberdeen. The investment in the new premises follows on from the recent appointment of Allan Pirie as CEO. The new facility has doubled the compa
Leading project management, engineering and construction company Technip has completed 21 jumper metrology operations using Lodestar GyroCompatts from Sonardyne International Ltd. Using the latest Wideband Long BaseLine (LBL) acoustic positioning hardware by optimising its technique, Technip was abl
M-I SWACO, a Schlumberger company, announced the release of the RHADIANT† ultra-high temperature non-aqueous drilling fluid system. This system eliminates drilling fluid product degradation, prevents wellbore control issues such as barite sag and provides a thin filter cake for enhanced logging cond
Recently, MirTac added three offshore contractors to its Star user group: the Fugro Marine Services BV business unit in Brazil, Scaldis Antwerp and Holland Offshore. The Star fleet management software is used worldwide on rigs, subsea solutions, ships and maritime offices linking locations seamlessl
M-I SWACO, a Schlumberger company, yesterday announced the release of the RHADIANT† ultra-high temperature non-aqueous drilling fluid system. This system eliminates drilling fluid product degradation, prevents wellbore control issues such as barite sag and provides a thin filter cake for enhanced lo
Today, Trelleborg inaugurates two operations in Brazil, co-located in one facility in Santana de Parnaíba, outside São Paulo. The facility will develop and produce printing blankets for the graphics industry as well as oil hoses for surface and deep-sea applications used in offshore oil and gas extr
GTT’s Mark III cargo containment system has been further developed to reduce the boil-off rate from LNG carriers by one third. DNV is the first class society to qualify this new GTT technology called Mark III FLEX. Mark III is GTT’s well-established containment system. This has now been further deve
Tag Pacific Limited today announced that its subsidiary MPower had been awarded a second contract for Inpex’s world-class Ichthys gas project in the Browse Basin off the north-west coast of Western Australia. MPower has been awarded its latest contract by Korean-based Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine En
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has granted AS Norske Shell consent to use Ormen Lange subsea template C with associated pipelines. The consent includes use of Ormen Lange subsea template C and manifold with associated intra-field pipelines,intrafield umbilical and pipeline end modules.
Today Xanthus Energy is announcing a fully functional 100m high meteorological masts offshore in water from depths up to 60m for £2,000,000; and that’s installed and transmitting. However the benefits offered by Xanthus do not stop there; Sea Met is based on tried and tested buoyant gravity base des
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a five-year charter for use of the Cade Candies, a multi-service subsea support vessel owned by Otto Candies LLC. The charter is expected to commence during the second quarter of 2013. This state-of-the-art, U.S. flagged vessel
Ravestein B.V. has been awarded the contract for the design and construction of a backhoe dredger type Ravestein 900B for Jan De Nul Group. The vessel will be delivered in January 2014. This will be the second contract for building a Ravestein 900B in short time, after successful delivery of the bac
A new moulded PIR pipeline cryogenic insulation whose performance qualities mean that fewer contraction joints are needed is now available from Hertel, the specialist installers of LNG insulation. Cetrafoam is a 50 kg/m3 rigid, closed cell foam, which is formulated to operate from 120c to -200c, has
The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, an Aleut tribal non-profit organization, has received funds to commence tidal research in False Pass, at the end of the Alaska Peninsula. The project that explores the potential power of ocean currents has been granted $200,000 of the Department of Energy f
