Technip has been awarded a large engineering, procurement, installation and construction (EPCI) contract by EnQuest for the Kraken development located in the North Sea, 400 kilometers North-East of Aberdeen and 130 kilometers East of Shetland, at a water depth of approximately 120 meters. Technip’s
Repsol has made a new discovery of high quality oil in the United States’ Gulf of Mexico. The find was made 352 kilometres from the Louisiana coast in an ultra-deep water well named León, located in the Keathley Canyon 642 block. Repsol is the operator of the discovering consortium. The well found m
Eni has made a gas finding in the Merakes exploration prospect, in the East Sepinggan Block, where Eni is operator with a 100% stake. The Block is located in the offshore East Kalimantan (Borneo), 170 kilometres south of the Bontang LNG Plant and 35 kilometres from the offshore Jangkrik field, also
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Statoil consent to use the Deepsea Atlantic mobile drilling facility for drilling and well operations at Gullfaks Sør. The consent covers production drilling and work on existing production wells, in addition to permanent plugging and abandonment of thr
Jee Ltd, an independent multi-discipline subsea engineering and training firm, is expanding its subsea engineering public courses programme to Stavanger, Norway in 2015. Jee’s Head of Courses, Jenny Matthew said: “We’re continually developing our extensive training programme and in 2015, in response
Ashtead Technology has set up, a first-of-its-kind, subsea training academy in Aberdeen in the world-renowned subsea centre of excellence at Westhill. The subsea technology training academy will meet global demand for improved competency in the configuration, operation and maintenance of increasingl
Maersk Drilling’s third drillship, Maersk Venturer, which was delivered September 25, 2014 from the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si in South-Korea, has secured a short term contract with oil major Total. Maersk Venturer will start a one well programme offshore Malaysia with an es
Teledyne Technologies’ subsidiary has acquired the business and substantially all of the assets of The Oceanscience Group (Oceanscience). Based in Carlsbad, California, Oceanscience designs and manufactures marine sensor platforms and unmanned surface vehicles. Terms of the transaction were not disc
MMT, a specialist in high-resolution marine surveys, has achieved high scores on the Achilles FPAL Verify audit. The Achilles FPAL community serves the procurement needs of the wider European oil & gas market. FPAL Verify is a supplier assessment that involves a two day visit to a nominated supplier
Ofgem has today set out proposals to allow £1.1 billion funding for a new subsea link in the north of Scotland. The regulator’s proposal is £173.9 million less than the funding request from Scottish Hydro Electricity Transmission (SHE Transmission) to ensure consumers pay no more than necessary. The
KrisEnergy, has chartered the Rubicon Vantage FSO vessel and a catenary anchor leg mooring (CALM) buoy for utilisation on the Wassana oil development in the G10/48 licence area in the Gulf of Thailand. The Wassana field is anticipated to commence production in the second half of 2015. The Rubicon Va
IRM Systems, the independent authority in the design of emergency pipeline repair systems (EPRS), has expanded its staff to meet growing demand for its services. The new full-time personnel are based at its headquarters in the Netherlands. Over the course of this year, IRM Systems has landed four ne
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (October 20 – October 26). FMC Technologies has reported third quarter 2014 revenue of $2.0 billion, up 15 percent from the prior-year quarter ($1.7 billion). Diluted earnings per share were $0
Petrobras has discovered hydrocarbon accumulation in deep waters of the Espírito Santo Basin post-salt by drilling well 4-BRSA-1265-ESS (ANP nomenclature) /4-GLF-42-ESS (Petrobras nomenclature), known as Lontra, at a water depth of 1,319 meters. The well, which is 81 km offshore the city of Vitória
