Norwegian oil services company, Aker Solutions, is said to be reducing its workforce capacity mainly in Norway, UK and India. According to reports, about 650 positions may be affected due to continued market slowdown and as part of company’s global reorganization. It is understood that some 100 posi
Ithaca Energy is pushing forward with its strategy of building out the Greater Stella Area production hub as it expects production from its Stella field to start in February this year and investment in the Harrier field development programme to also begin during 2017. Preparation for start-up of the
Trelleborg’s marine systems operation has relocated and almost doubled the size of its engineering and design center of excellence in a new 1,000 square meter premises in Ahmedabad, India. Since 2009, the marine center of excellence has provided detailed engineering design, modelling and analysis fo
Halliburton has entered into a technology cooperation agreement with Petrobras that should advance collaboration in a diverse set of projects targeting complex reservoirs such as deepwater pre-salt and mature fields. The multi-year agreement will facilitate the development of innovative solutions in
Navantia-Windar joint venture has been awarded a contract by Siemens Wind Power to supply jacket foundations for the Nissum Bredning (NBV) offshore wind farm. The contract covers the supply of 3-legged jacket foundations and their corresponding piles for four SWT-7.0-154 offshore wind turbines. Thes
GE Oil & Gas said it has secured a new contractual service agreement with Transocean valued at approximately $180 million. According to GE, the agreement, signed at the end of 2016, aims to further maximize productivity and lower operating costs for Transocean. The contract will see GE provide condi
Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of Statoil at their offices in Stjørdal and the research centre in Trondheim. The objective of the audit was to check that Statoil is fully following up the challenges associated with flexible pipelines and working to understand the di
General Dynamics Mission Systems’ autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Bluefin SandShark is now offered on the company’s website to defense, commercial and scientific market. The Bluefin SandShark joins the company’s Bluefin Robotics family of autonomous underwater products. Weighing less than 5 kilo
Sonardyne Inc., Houston has supplied acoustically-aided inertial navigation technology for McDermott’s Lay Vessel 108 (LV 108). The Ranger 2 Pro DP-INS system is being used to support touchdown monitoring surveys of submarine cables, umbilicals and pipelines and as an independent position reference
SapuraKencana’s subsidiary, SapuraKencana Technology (SK Technology) and Proserv are joining forces to provide technology services in Asia Pacific. They will jointly provide a range of services across the drilling, production, maintenance and decommissioning market sectors with a strong focus on sub
ACE Winches, has secured a spooling contract with Oceaneering for Shell’s Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) project. The contract will be the first time ACE Winches’ newly-developed 500te reel drive system is used. The tool is an upgrade of its existing 400te system that has been enginee
Tidal energy developer, Atlantis Resources, is establishing a new internal division which will leverage the existing skill set the company said it has accumulated during the progression of its MeyGen tidal power project. Atlantis Energy, as the new division will be known, will initially focus on opp
On behalf of De Maas SMC, Dutch subsea technology company Seatools completed a feasibility and conceptual design study on a Remotely Operated Mort Collector (ROMoC). The study resulted in an automated mort collection system capable of effectively collecting dead fish in large-scale offshore fish far
Technicians of Demoliciones Submarinas, IHCantabria and UnderOceans worked together on the inspection of the anchorage systems of various experimental and beacon buoys in the Bimep test site. This site, located in Armintza (Vizcaya) and owned by the Basque Government, is an infrastructure designed t
