Aker Solutions and Kvaerner together secured a letter of intent for modifications of the riser platform and field center of the Statoil-operated Johan Sverdrup development, Norway’s largest oil find in more than three decades. The contract value is NOK 3.4 billion (approximately $435 million) and wi
Offshore vessel firm Maersk Supply Service is getting ready for the tow of a Singapore-built FSO unit to the North Sea.
Deep Sea Mooring (DSM) and Vryhof Anchors have secured a contract to provide full-scale mooring and anchoring services to Australian energy company Cooper Energy. The announcement also sees Vryhof businesses secure contracts in Cooper’s main target drilling area – offshore Victoria, Australia, for t
Fugro is set to begin a site characterization program at the Hollandse Kust (noord) Wind Farm zone. Carried out under a further contract for the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl, part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy), the geotechnical workscope comprises seabed investigat
IKM Subsea Singapore has signed a contract with PTTEP for its appraisal campaign offshore Myanmar. IKM Subsea will be providing a Merlin WR200 electrical propulsion system together with a BOP intervention tool and an IKM Technology designed and built diamond wire cutter for this project onboard the
Oil and gas solutions provider Tendeka has appointed Paul Lynch as its new advanced completions director to help drive the commercialisation of its wireless intelligent completions technology, PulseEight. Lynch joins Tendeka having most recently been vice president of global technical sales with Del
Sparrows Group has secured a multi-million pound contract with India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for the refurbishment of 21 cranes.
TGS has announced the ‘Brazil Southern Basins SeaSeep Project’ in the Campos and Santos Basins, offshore Brazil. The project will cover existing TGS surveys in these hydrocarbon rich basins as well as the pre-salt trend where many untested structures exist. Acquisition of the multibeam will start la
IKM Subsea has signed a contract with PTTEPI for the provision of subsea equipment for an appraisal campaign off Myanmar.
Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Framo pumping systems to an FPSO vessel in the North Sea.
The ITF (Industry Technology Facilitator) and the Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) merger has now been completed. The merger to focus and enhance the technology and innovation support for the UK oil and gas industry, was announced in February this year. Teams from both organisations worked togethe
Kraken Robotics’ wholly-owned subsidiary, Kraken Robotic Systems, has been formally notified by the Government of Canada that its application to the Build in Canada Innovation Program (BCIP) has been approved. The company has been pre-qualified into the program for its ThunderFish 300 autonomous und
Snipping company NYK has agreed to sponsor a Japanese collaborative research Team KUROSHIO, a finalist in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE competition. NYK will be providing the transportation for the team’s unmanned robots, which are being used in this international competition to quickly and accur
A project by the Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC), Total, and Taurob, in partnership with Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), will develop and trial a mobile robot for autonomous operational inspection.
