On May 28, 2015, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway carried out an audit of Statoil’s Åsgard subsea compression project. The Åsgard field lies on the Halten Bank in the Norwegian Sea, about 200 kilometres off mid-Norway and 50 kilometres south of Heidrun. Statoil recently started the instal
Tracerco, based in Billingham, received an Innovation Award from the Institute of Physics (IOP) for developing Discovery. Discovery is used to establish the integrity of subsea pipeline assets. The system operates at depths of up to 3000 meters and uses gamma ray tomography to produce high resolutio
A three-month ‘Building with Nature’ study has been launched by Ecoshape, Deltares and Witteveen en Bos in the channel to the south of the Ridderkerkse Griend nature reserve in the Netherlands. The study will look at two types of willow woods – pollard willows and an osiery – to see whether it is po
Norway’s Statoil has awarded Baker Hughes an eight-year contract to design and supply production chemicals to the offshore Norne field and the deepwater Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea. Work is anticipated to begin in July 2015, and the contract also includes an extension option of four ye
OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger company, and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. have entered into an agreement to form a joint industry program (JIP) to develop subsea systems technology for 20,000-psi applications. According to OneSubsea, the JIP, known as the 20Ksi Subsea System Development Program, will a
Anadarko Petroleum, an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, has recently completed the upending of its massive Heidelberg floating truss spar in 5,300 feet of water off the coast of Louisiana. Anadarko’s 23,000-ton Heidelberg floating spar headed to its offshore location in Gr
Chevron has reached a major project milestone, as the sail-away and installation of the Alder Project’s topsides module in the Central North Sea, has been completed. The 800-metric-ton topsides structure was built in a Newcastle shipyard and travelled via transport barge 110 miles (175 km) to the Fi
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has just released this very interesting webinar about the dredging equipment. The webinar, presented by Mr Frans Uelman – lecturer and course coordinator of the IADC Dredging Seminar for more than 15 years, was held on June 17. IADC webinars
During the last weekend in June the Gina Krog jacket was installed in the North Sea. Including rigging and buoyancy tanks the jacket weighing more than 17 000 tons was secured to the seabed with 18 more than 90 meter long piles, and it’s ready for the summer drilling campaign. The Gina Krog jacket l
Sub-Atlantic has won a second contract with Italian oil and gas subsea services provider, AALEA, for the delivery of one of Tomahawk observation ROV systems. It is the second system of its kind that Sub-Atlantic has provided for AALEA with the first successfully completing a 100km pipeline survey in
Denmark’s electricity grid is to be reinforced with more than 290 km of Nexans’ XLPE cables as part of ENERGINET.DK’s JFK & Storstrømmen project. Nexans will supply two submarine cable systems and two underground cable systems in Denmark in a contract worth approximately €25 million. Nexans will pro
A unique summer school, named ‘From Dredging to Deep-Sea Mining’, has been underway for the past few days (July 6-10) in Freiberg, Germany. The school, organized by the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, is aimed at improving the knowledge of students and young researchers from different co
Los Angeles-based C-Innovation has secured a two-year master services deal, with call-off options, with BP for inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services for the M/V Island Enforcer. The 122-meter subsea installation and construction vessel was delivered in 2010 from the Bergen Group in Norwa
Auckland-based marine construction and dredging company, Heron Construction Ltd., has taken delivery of its two new 1200m³ Split Hopper Barges. The new SHB’s come as a timely addition to the Heron’s Australian fleet that is currently carrying out dredging operations throughout Victorian waters. The
