Shell has submitted a decommissioning plan for the Brent oil and gas field to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Following submission, an extended 60-day public consultation has been initiated on recommendations to decommission the North Sea field. The field, located
Kongsberg Maritime has generated Q4 revenues of NOK 2.06 billion ($247 million), down from NOK 2.7 billion ($323.5 million) when compared to Q4 in 2015, but up from Q3 in 2016. The quarterly EBITDA is NOK 69 million, including NOK 44 millionin restructuring costs. 2016 revenues are NOK 8.6 billion,
Jan De Nul recently put its suction dredger, PETRUS PLANCIUS, back into operation after a successful conversion into an environmental dredger. IHC Services designed the technical solution that could operate the dredger with either a cutter or silt suction head. The IHC Beaver 1600, built in 2008, ne
Halliburton has released the ‘Dash Large Bore Subsea Safety System’, which provides full electrohydraulic control of well safety and intervention functions. The system is said it brings new benefits to deepwater operators for completion and intervention work that improve critical well control of the
For the first time, Rolls-Royce will be supplying MTU engines for use in excavators, having won an order from British construction equipment manufacturer JCB. “MTU’s Series 1000 engines are compliant with EU-Stage IV and EPA Tier 4f emissions legislation and are to be used to power new excavators in
RE2 Robotics has received a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award to develop an inflatable underwater dual manipulator system for the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR). Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) divers are often placed in harm’s way while performing underwater locat
ADUS DeepOcean and DeepOcean Ghana have recently completed a deepwater subsea 3D laser survey off the West Coast of Africa for Tullow Oil. According to DeepOcean, it is the first extensive commercial survey of its kind, heralding a new era of high resolution, cost effective data acquisition subsea.
Dutch offshore services provider DeepOcean has completed a deepwater subsea 3D laser survey offshore Ghana for the oil and gas company Tullow Oil. The company said on Wednesday that the survey was done by its subsidiary ADUS DeepOcean and DeepOcean Ghana. The 3D laser survey was done off the West Co
Dutch provider of hull cleaning and inspection equipment, Fleet Cleaner, has completed its first hull cleaning trial by cleaning the HNLMS Karel Doorman, the largest vessel of the Royal Netherlands Navy. In the Dutch port of Den Helder, the company has removed the fouling of the vessel by using its
National Oilwell Varco has reported a fourth quarter 2016 net loss of $714 million, or $1.90 per share. Excluding other items, net loss for the quarter was $57 million, or $0.15 per share. Other items totaled $706 million, pretax, and were primarily associated with inventory charges, facility closur
4Subsea has secured a contract for delivery of integrity monitor systems for six flexible risers on Statoil’s semi-submersible platform Snorre B in the North Sea. The company was awarded the contract shortly after the delivery of the fifth system in a row for Statoil’s Snorre A platform. The monitor
Independent engineering company 4Subsea has been awarded a contract to deliver an integrity monitor systems for six flexible risers on Statoil’s Snorre B semi-submersible platform in the North Sea. 4Subsea said on Tuesday the contract was awarded shortly after delivering the fifth system in a row fo
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) and HAI Technologies have entered into a strategic alliance to pursue mutual opportunities through a joint applications development and marketing agreement with an initial focus on offshore oil and gas subsea chemical injection systems. Dan Krohn, HAI Technologies gene
Teekay has extended Marlink’s contract for the provision of Sealink VSAT solution across its entire shuttle tanker fleet. Marlink said on Monday that the increased solution capacity is already live across the shuttle tanker fleet and that Teekay has chosen the company’s solution for three new builds
