Halliburton, Oil Spill Response Ltd (OSRL), and Trendsetter Engineering have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for integrated subsea well-capping response solutions. With the MOU, the companies will create a strategic alliance for oil and gas exploration and production companies globally, c
Swan Hunter has completed mobilisation and commissioning of a flexlay spread onto EMAS Chiyoda Subsea’s multi-lay vessel Lewek Constellation for flexible risers installation. The lay equipment comprises Swan Hunter’s new-build loading tower complete with tensioner, a 26-meters basket carousel provid
DNV GL now launches a new recommended practice DNVGL-RP-F114 ‘Pipe-soil interaction for submarine pipelines’, solely dedicated to the interaction between the pipeline and the soil. Pipe-soil interaction assessments are usually far more complex and there can be more uncertainty on the results compare
Tampnet has been awarded a contract by Statoil for connecting the Johan Sverdrup field to their existing 2500 km subsea fibre infrastructure in the North Sea. This contract and turn-key project will optimize and strengthen the telecommunication infrastructure for this field development. Tampnet’s CE
Tampnet, a provider of telecommunication infrastructure and services for the offshore o&g industry, has been awarded a contract by Statoil for connecting the Johan Sverdrup field to its existing 2,500 kilometers subsea fiber infrastructure in the North Sea. Tampnet said last week that the contract a
Alpha Petroleum has partnered with GE Oil & Gas to advance the subsea infrastructure for the Cheviot oil field in the UK North Sea with 55 mmbbls of oil and 20 mmboe of future gas production. The company, backed by upstream oil and gas investment firm Petroleum Equity, has named GE Oil & Gas as the
Alpha Petroleum is partnering up with GE Oil & Gas on the advancement of the subsea infrastructure for the Cheviot oil field, in the UK North Sea. The field, described by Alpha Petroleum as one of the largest undeveloped fields in the UK North Sea, is estimated to hold 55 mmbbls of oil and 20 mmboe
Oceanteam Solutions has received a letter of intent (LoI) from an unnamed cable producer in Europe for the supply of a vessel, turntable and auxiliary equipment for the transport of cables from South Europe to Scandinavia. The contract is planned to be executed in summer 2017, the company said. Ocea
Kongsberg GeoAcoustics has recently launched their new Compact Survey Vessel (CSV), specifically designed to survey shallow coastal and inland waterways quickly, using a powerful and manoeuvrable two-person catamaran equipped with the latest GeoSwath 4R shallow water simultaneous swath bathymetry an
Wärtsilä has signed an agreement with Eidesvik Offshore to install a hybrid system with batteries on board the offshore supply vessel (OSV) Viking Princess. Wärtsilä said on Friday that the vessel would become the first OSV in which batteries reduce the number of generators on board. The new hybrid
Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS) and TGS are teaming up for the fourth 3D seismic project offshore Eastern Canada for 2017. The project follows the companies’ announcement earlier this week to carry out two new multi-client 3D surveys off eastern Canada Long Range 3D will comprise approximately 9,10
Noble Corporation has selected acoustically-aided inertial navigation technology from Sonardyne for its ultra-deep water drillship Noble Globetrotter I. The Marksman DP-INS system is being used to provide a high integrity, independent subsea position reference for the vessel’s GE DP3 dynamic positio
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, has just announced that the christening ceremony of the H.R. Spies, their new hydrographic survey vessel, took place yesterday at Fort Mifflin. The vessel, made by All American Marine on the West Coast, was named after the late Bob Spies who s
Oceaneering has entered into an agreement, expected to extend into 2026, with an undisclosed international oil and gas company, to provide remotely operated vehicle (ROV) services and equipment for projects located offshore of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. In addition, Oceaneering will supply t
