Cortland has been awarded a patented BOB® 12×12 Fiber Rope by Rolls Royce for use on their next Fiber Rope Deployment System (FRDS), which is based on their patented Cable Traction Control Unit (CTCU) technology. The FRDS system, which will have a single fall capacity of 150t, is being built for AKO
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) and Ocean Networks, Inc. will build a 14,200 km submarine cable system linking Hawaii to South America. The South America Pacific Link (SAPL) system will connect Oahu in Hawaii, Balboa in Panama and Santiago in Chile, providing additional capacity to meet the
James Fisher has acquired of the entire share capital of Mojo Maritime Limited (MML). According to reports, the initial consideration is £3.2m in cash, plus potential future consideration of £0.3m if the earnings before interest and taxation are £0.65m or greater for the year ending 31 December 2015
Peterson together with enterprise software innovators Streamba, has unveiled VOR – a data-driven, intelligent and automated augmentation to the modern supply chain. The solution was released at this week’s Offshore Technology Conferency in Houston. VOR is an interactive, transformative upstream oil
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, has received an order from Premier Oil Norge to supply its POS-GRIP wellhead system for an exploration well in the Norwegian Central North
Ulstein has reported that at Hyundai Heavy Industries, the ‘Toisa Patroklos’ vessel is nearing completion. The multipurpose offshore construction vessel, a customized Ulstein Deepwater Enabler design, is the largest vessel built featuring the patented X-BOW and the first to be built in Korea. It was
UK-based SURF contractor, Ceona, has been awarded a new deepwater contract with Houston-based Bennu Oil & Gas LLC in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) on their Mirage field. This contract comes after a first contract was awarded and completed last year for operations on their Clipper deepwater field. The agr
Van Oord has developed Deep Excavation System (DES), a new technique for dredging at great water depths. The system, patented by Van Oord, is used to prepare a sea bottom profile for installing offshore pipelines. Uneven sea beds are traditionally prepared for laying offshore pipelines by installing
Over the past few years, Van Oord has developed a new technique for dredging at great water depths. This Deep Excavation System (DES), patented by Van Oord, is an innovative method to prepare a sea bottom profile for installing offshore pipelines. Uneven sea beds are traditionally prepared for layin
Wintershall and its partners have submitted a Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) for the Maria field in the Norwegian Sea to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. This is the first time Wintershall, as operator of the field, has submitted a PDO for a Norwegian development. Today, Mar
Cameron and OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger company, have won Spotlight on New Technology Awards at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) by meeting the criteria for new, innovative, proven products of broad interest that have significant impact. Cameron won an award for its Mark IV High Av
Tracerco, a part of FTSE100 Johnson Matthey Plc, has launched a new product that enables oil companies to quickly scan pipeline to detect the location of deposits causing flow assurance issues. The technology, known as Explorer™, is able to screen subsea pipelines for content and deposit build-up at
Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd, an Acteon company, hosted a successful Open Day in Aberdeen and Peterhead, UK, for Subsea 7. The Open Day programme was designed to showcase Aquatic’s ‘strength in depth’ capabilities as the supplier of offshore powered-reel and tensioner systems, and highligh
Subsea CT scanner for flowlines, Discovery™, has completed the first deepwater deployment on Shell-operated flowlines in the Gulf of Mexico. Discovery™ was developed by Tracerco, part of the FTSE100 Johnson Matthey Plc. The technology is used to establish the integrity of subsea pipeline assets. In
