Sandvik Materials Technology has secured a contract to be the sole provider of stainless steel umbilical tubes for the Leviathan gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, offshore Israel. The order was booked in the first quarter and the value is about 400 million SEK ($40 million) with deliveries schedul
Wood Group has been awarded a contract with Statoil to provide front end engineering design (FEED) to the subsea flowline system of the Snorre expansion project in the Norwegian North Sea. The contract will be delivered by Wood Group’s Stavanger, Norway office and follows on from the completion of a
Statoil is preparing for the sail away of the 200 meter long Aasta Hansteen substructure from the Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) yard in South Korea to Norway. Aasta Hansteen is the world’s largest Spar-platform, and will be the first in Norway. The substructure is 200 meters long, 50 meters in diam
UniSite Group, a Ningbo based company involved in dredging, land reclamation, offshore projects, marine, mechanical engineering and green remediation projects, has reported very busy start of 2017 business year, taking an active part in a lot of projects all over the world. During this period, the C
Aberdeenshire-based Aleron has sold the XL150 remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to a new client in South East Asia, G8 Subsea. The XL150 has seen several upgrades performed by Aleron Subsea including a single mode-upgrade to boost its survey capability and an HPU upgrade taking the system to 150HP to
Mooring specialist Delmar Systems said it has made two promotions within its engineering group in Houston, Texas. Namely, John Shelton, P.E. will assume the role of vice president of engineering, while Robert Garrity, P.E. will become the engineering manager/chief engineer for the company. Shelton h
Sweden’s Sandvik Materials Technology will be supplying umbilical pipes for one of the largest offshore gas projects in the Mediterranean – the Leviathan. The company on Tuesday said it won a contract to the sole provider of stainless steel umbilical tubes for the Leviathan gas field, operated by th
Italian subsea cable specialist, Prysmian has created its new global Center of Excellence for Latin America. Once fully operational, it will be a competitive hub serving the local wire and cable market, and will consolidate the company presence in the whole region. “The investments in these new faci
C-Diamond, a provider of subsea cutting solutions to the offshore industry and a joint venture between C-Innovation and 1Diamond, has appointed Harald Ramfjord as president. Ramfjord, who held senior management positions at Beerenberg Corp before its acquisition by Quanta Services, will be based in
Wood Group has been awarded a contract by Premier Oil to deliver front end engineering design (FEED) to the Tolmount offshore field development in the Southern North Sea. Effective immediately, Wood Group will provide topsides, jacket, pipeline, flow assurance and subsea engineering expertise for Pr
Robert Gordon University (RGU) has launched a new set of online short courses to help professional development and address skills needs within the oil and gas industry. The courses, the first of which focuses on decommissioning and is available now, have been tailored to appeal to differing competen
Subsea Technology & Rentals (STR) continues to grow its rental equipment inventory with the addition of the new automated sound velocity profiling system developed by Teledyne Oceanscience using Valeport’s RapidSV Profiler. Teledyne’s rapidCAST and Valeport’s SVT Probe, purchased during the recent O
Robert Gordon University (RGU), Scotland, is working closely with industry partner, The Underwater Centre, to incorporate a commercial diving familiarisation course as part of its MSc Subsea Engineering and MSc Offshore Oil and Gas Engineering courses. The Centre is delivering theoretical sessions c
Cathelco is supplying marine growth prevention systems (MGPS) for the RSS Sir David Attenborough, a polar research vessel commissioned by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) which is being built by Cammell Laird and will be operated by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The commissioning of
