OGpar, a Brazilian oil and gas company formerly known under the name of OGX, has informed that it has resumed production from its Tubarao Martelo oil field, offshore Brazil. The company, which filed for bankruptcy protection in 2013, said that on July 1, 2016, it received a letter issued by Agência
Royal IHC and Tompkins UK Limited are strengthening their strategic cooperation with IHC’s acquisition of a majority stake in Tompkins, the parent company of Modus Seabed Intervention and a partner in the TI Geosciences joint venture that IHC and Tompkins created in 2015. Modus is a specialist provi
UK’s drilling waste management firm TWMA has secured a £1.5million contract with Apache on the WilPhoenix drilling rig in the North Sea Beryl field. As part of TWMA’s waste management solution, the one-year contract will utilize the company’s TCC RotoMill® for offshore processing and EfficientC® for
Cape Sharp Tidal plans to move first tidal turbine to Halifax in the coming days to ballast the steel subsea base with concrete. Transit time from Pictou Shipyard to Halifax will be about three to four days, the company informed. The environmental monitoring plans for the FORCE site continue to be a
Waterking BV recently delivered its WK 220 NG-3 to a German customer involved in contracting services, construction machines rental and sales. This job was finished in cooperation with a German Caterpillar dealer. The upper structure, Caterpillar 320 EL, has been delivered to the Waterking factory i
Installation of a 20-mile subsea cable that connects Block Island to Rhode Island mainland and links the first U.S. offshore wind farm to the National Grid’s power system has been completed. “This significant milestone in developing renewable offshore wind generated energy is the result of years of
Australian offshore oil exploration company, Carnarvon Petroleum, has appointed MGPalaeo to build a stratigraphic database for Australia’s North West Shelf over the next twelve months. MGPalaeo is a geological consultant company specializing in biostratigraphy servicing the oil and gas industry. Car
TCO, a Norwegian oilfield services company, has been awarded a contract extension with Statoil. TCO said on Monday that the contract entails providing Statoil with disappearing glass plugs and a chemical injection system. The deal is a two-year extension of a contract signed between the companies in
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (June 27 – July 03). NOPSEMA revealed a recent incident where a vessel lost position while diving activities were being conducted approximately 130 metres from a hydrocarbon facility offshore Western A
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (June 27-July 3, 2016). Wartsila Engines for Two Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers Wartsila has won an order to supply engines for two new 8000 m³ trailing suction hopper dredgers. HAM 318 Completes Thinadhoo Lan
Aibel in Singapore has been awarded the E&P contract for modifications on Woodside Energy’s Ngujima-Yin floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) off Western Australia. The FPSO will undergo modifications to the topsides, hull and turret, along with installation of a new custom water flood m
WellConnection the inspection, maintenance and repair services (IMR) provider for drilling and subsea equipment on the Norwegian Continental Shelf has acquired ChemTech. ChemTech, located at Tananger near Stavanger, provides preparation for inspection and treatment of NORM (Naturally Occuring Radioa
OceanWorks, a subsea solution engineering company, has completed a survey and refurbishment of the French Navy’s HARDSUIT ADS. The work was contracted to OceanWorks by ECA Robotics who maintains the HARDSUIT ADS for the French Navy. The HARDSUIT ADS, initial delivered to the French Navy in 1991, is
Italian drilling services provider Saipem has subscribed to a new credit facility for up to €554 million ($614.4M) which will be used for the financing or refinancing of the company’s purchases of equipment and services from Norwegian exporters. According to the company, the credit facility is suppo
