PGS, in cooperation with Sonangol, is acquiring a new survey over the shallow-water shelf area of the Kwanza Basin, Angola. The Kwanza Shelf includes fields and discoveries with reservoirs in both the presalt and the postsalt. These open acreage shallow-water blocks have been overlooked in recent ex
Correll Services has secured a contract from Jan De Nul for the subsea and land cable termination and testing works for the Phase 2 of the Formosa 1 offshore wind farm, in Taiwan. Jan De Nul is the Formosa 1 project turnkey contractor in charge of the design, procurement and installation of the wind
Aberdeen-based energy investment specialists Simmons Energy has been appointed by Oxford Flow to raise strategic capital for its growth objectives across the oil and gas sector. The funding is to be used to accelerate deployment of its flow control valve technology into multiple energy and industria
Technical Toolboxes, provider of desktop and cloud-based pipeline engineering software, as well as industry training for pipeline engineering and technical professionals, has released the Pipeline HUB (HUBPL) to integrate pipeline data and better facilitate customers’ technical work. This new platfo
Naval Group has, under the Future Submarine Program, signed the first phase of the Submarine Design Contract. The Submarine Design Contract is the first contract work scope to be fully executed under the Strategic Partnering Agreement. The scope for this phase of work includes the ongoing maturation
PNG DataCo (DataCo) has completed the second, out of three systems of the Kumul submarine cable network. The System 2 landed at Alotau, connecting three branching units, Lae, Popondetta and Alotau. Kumul submarine domestic fiber cable network is a national backbone transmission network that intends
Plexus Holdings’ Russian licensee, LLC Gusar (Gusar), has secured its first major contract to supply POS-GRIP rental wellhead gas exploration equipment to Gazprom. The contract covers the first year of an up to five-year jack-up gas exploration drilling programme on the Kara Sea Shelf at shallow wat
Sparrows Cable and Pipe Lay Solutions (CPLS) division said it has more than doubled its business during 2018 thanks to an upsurge in activity in the renewables market. This included the delivery of its largest renewables project to date as part of three contracts awarded through VBMS; DEME Offshore,
Dutch offshore access provider Ampelmann has secured its first ever contract in Mexico.
Preston-based Submarine Manufacturing and Products (SMP) said it has delivered ahead of schedule the Submarine Emergency Survival Pods, ROV Training Simulator Suite and Subsea Training Templates for connection of the (SEVDS) Submarine Emergency Ventilation & Decompression System. The 4000-metre dept
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (February 25 – March 3, 2019). PHOTO: IHC Beaver for the Middle East Royal IHC said in its latest announcement that their first IHC Beaver ever built in the Middle East was officially launched last week. Wasa Dr
From the collaboration between Dragflow (an Italian manufacturer of dredging equipment) and Gerotto Federico S.R.L. (a company specializing in the design and production of Mini Excavator robots and in work with suction excavators) a new dredging tool is born: The Bull – ROV (Remote Operated Vehicle)
DNV GL has opened a failure analysis facility in Houston, Texas which should provide failure analyses that support the industry in conducting effective and efficient root cause analyses. The aim is to prevent and learn from failures and continue to improve safety, reliability and up-time. The facili
MHWirth, an Akastor-owned provider of drilling solutions and services, has been awarded a contract for the delivery of automatic drilling control systems on five Transocean’s drilling rigs.
