Remotely operated vehicle service provider ROVOP has bolstered its US team after winning contracts worth around $19 million (£15 million) including a two-year deal with an undisclosed Houston-based company. Euan Tait has been appointed as president of the company’s US operations, ROVOP Inc, while Ka
Marine survey company, Partrac has been awarded a contract by Kincardine Offshore Windfarm Limited (KOWL) to monitor oceanographic processes at the Kincardine site located south-east of Aberdeen, approximately 15 kilometers from the Scottish coastline. Partrac has been contracted to provide the base
Mitcham’s side scan sonar specialist, Klein Marine Systems, has appointed Richard Dentzman as the company’s regional sales manager. Dentzman joins Klein to strengthen cooperation with the company’s reference customers in the U.S. Navy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Geo
Baker Hughes has introduced its DEEPFRAC deepwater multistage fracturing service, which, the company claims, can save operators hundreds of millions of dollars in offshore developments through efficiency gains across the completion phase. Baker Hughes said that the service uses multiposition sleeves
Offshore power cable manufacturer JDR has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Magma Global (Magma), the manufacturer of high performance carbon fibre and Victrex PEEK thermoplastic composite pipe, m-pipe®. The signing – which took place on Tuesday at the Offshore Technology Conference in
Baker Hughes has introduced the ‘DEEPFRAC’ deepwater multistage fracturing service, which can reportedly save operators hundreds of millions of dollars in offshore developments through unprecedented efficiency gains across the completion phase. According to the company, using ball-activated multipos
The U.S. Navy installed a submarine rescue diving and recompression system (SRDRS) aboard the Military Sealift Command-chartered merchant vessel HOS Dominator at Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI) in Coronado. Members of Undersea Rescue Command (URC), based at NASNI, and contractors from Phoenix
Subsea technology and services provider 4Subsea has been awarded a new contract for integrity management with Shell on the Draugen, Knarr, and Ormen Lange fields in Norway. 4Subsea said on Monday that the new contract was a continuation of a long-standing cooperation between Shell Norway and 4Subsea
Ocean Infinity said it has purchased two more autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) from Kongsberg Maritime. This will increase Ocean Infinity’s fleet of HUGIN 6000 AUVs from six to eight vehicles, which will be used worldwide to collect seabed data. The fleet of AUV’s will be operated simultaneously
A subsea technology spin-off from Norwegian firm Fuglesangs has signed an agreement with Aker BP, Lundin and NOV to develop and test a full scale prototype of what is marketed as ‘the worlds most autonomous boosting system’. The system will be qualified as part of The Research Council of Norway’s (“
4Subsea has been awarded a new contract for integrity management with Shell, using the digitalised web solution FlexTrack for integrity monitoring on Draugen, Knarr and Ormen Lange fields. The contract is a continuation and further development of cooperation between Shell Norway and 4Subsea, enablin
A Damen cutter suction dredger (CSD) 350 has been delivered from Damen Dredging Equipment in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, to start work on a canal dredging assignment in the province of Groningen, in the north of the country. In order to execute the project, which involves the extraction of approximate
The Oil and Gas Authority UK (OGA) has awarded £1.5 million of contracts to purchase subsurface databases and information sources to encourage further exploration in under explored areas of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). The datasets purchased will underpin much of the OGA’s work across the explor
British oil giant BP has developed a new seismic imaging technique that has identified more than 200 million barrels of additional resources at its Atlantis field in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. As a result of this early success, BP now is deploying this technique to fields elsewhere in the Gulf of
