TDW Offshore Services (TDW) announced completion of two key pipeline interventions offshore Australia for a major operator. The two operations were carried out using the SmartPlug® pressure isolation tool for distinctly different purposes. The technology makes it possible to isolate pipeline pressur
On Saturday, February 16, Petrobras started up oil production on the FPSO Cidade de Itajaí in the Baúna field (block BMS-40), in the Southern Santos Basin post-salt cluster. The FPSO is connected to well 9-SPS-88, with production capacity of up to 12,000 barrels per day. Another ten wells (5 product
Telstra will be a consortium partner in a project with Telecom New Zealand and Vodafone New Zealand to build a new undersea telecommunications cable linking Auckland and Sydney. Design of the new Tasman Global Access Cable is expected to be finalized in the new few months, and when fully laid in mid
Leading independent offshore survey company UTEC has inked the survey support contract with a major international pipe lay contractor. This project encompasses pre-lay, installation support and as-built survey support on the Greater Western Flank development off the North-west coast of Australia. Pr
Fujitsu Limited and NEC Corporation announced that they have completed construction of all initially planned segments of the Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE) system, a high-bandwidth optical submarine cable system that extends across approximately 7,800 km to link Japan with the Philippines, Hong
Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded two new contracts worth in total approximately €45 million by Jersey Electricity plc (UK), for the “Normandie 3” project to provide electricity to Jersey in the Channel Islands from the French mainland. T
CGG has commenced acquisition of a new, highly pre-funded 3D multi-client program in the Central North Sea (CNS) using BroadSeisTM, its broadband marine solution, with BroadSourceTM, its broadband source option, to deliver superior imaging for enhanced interpretation. Quad 30 Phase 7 of CGG’s Corner
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited, the Africa focused oil and gas exploration company, provides an operational update across its portfolio and a revised forward-looking work programme. Over the last year the Company has drilled two exploration wells and acquired 3,500km2 of 3D seismic data in Namibia; acqui
The PNG LNG Project’s offshore pipeline is now complete following the final tie-in to the onshore pipeline in December 2012. The final tie-in – or connection – took place at the Omati landfall in the Omati River where the pipeline from the land (onshore) meets with the offshore (undersea) pipeline.
Halliburton has been selected by Statoil to provide multilateral technology (MLT) for two mature fields offshore Norway. The three-year frame agreement includes two optional periods of two years each and has an estimated value of more than $200 million. The new FlexRite® Multibranch Inflow Control (
BSEE is responding today to a report from offshore oil and gas operator Apache Corporation of an underground flow of natural gas at an exploratory well being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 50 miles east of Venice, LA. There is no detection of gas at the seafloor or pollution at the loca
Petrobras announces that FPSO Cidade de São Vicente went on stream last Tuesday, February 12, kicking off production of the Sapinhoá Norte Early Production System (SPA), through exploratory well 3-BRSA-788-SPS (3-SPS-69), located in block BM-S-9, in the pre-salt of Santos Basin. Production will be a
On Friday, benthic surveys, which involve filming the seabed and collecting sand samples to examine the flora, fauna and marine life in the sand, were begun, and will continue while the weather holds. The company is using a high-resolution camera that will record the life living in the top layer of
Fastnet (“Fastnet” or the “Company”) the listed E&P company focused on near term exploration acreage in the Celtic Sea and Morocco, announces that it has executed a Letter of Intent, subject to contract, with CGG as its preferred seismic contractor for 3D seismic acquisition in the Celtic Sea beginn
