The Galoc Production Company (“GPC”), operator of the Galoc oil field offshore Palawan in the Philippines, advises that the Galoc Joint Venture has approved the commencement of Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) in support of the planned Phase II development of the field and the acquisition of
Ciena® Corporation the network specialist, announced that Reliance Globalcom, the leading global provider of managed network and communication services for multinational enterprises and carriers, completed an upgrade of its FNAL submarine network with Ciena’s market-leading coherent 40G optical netw
FMC Technology, a Houston, TX based oil and gas services and manufacturing firm, is expanding its Scottish operations in Bellshill and Dunfermline and creating 240 new jobs, Scotland’s Enterprise Minister Fergus Ewing announced. On a visit to the company’s base in Bellshill, south east of Glasgow, t
Alan Brunnen and Tove Røskaft will both take a seat at the executive management team of Aker Solutions following a restructuring of the company’s business area Subsea. Mads Andersen who has headed Subsea leaves the company after eight years in the same executive team. Alan Brunnen has headed up Aker
Schlumberger today announced at the Offshore Europe 2011 Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition the combining of its fishing and intervention services, which will be delivered through SERVCO services. The new service organization will offer fishing and pipe recovery, wellbore departure, wellbore aban
UK based Coastline Surveys Limited, were contracted by Calegeo, a trading division of Calecore Ltd, for a Alcatel Lucent cable burial assessment survey recently broke their own water depth record with their C-Pen40 seabed CPT system. Under the survey a total of 44 CPT’s were completed along the prop
2H Offshore has moved to strengthen its global management team with the appointment of Tim Eyles as its managing director and David Walters as a principal director. The appointments have been made as one of 2H’s founders Steve Hatton leaves Acteon in search of new challenges. Steve was hugely influe
ConocoPhillips announced today that it will establish a fund related to the incidents at the Peng Lai 19-3 field in Bohai Bay, China. This fund will be designed to address ConocoPhillips’ responsibilities in accordance with relevant laws of China and to benefit the general environment in Bohai Bay.
DNV has developed a protocol to ensure diver safety and weld integrity for the most challenging subsea welding jobs where traditional pressure testing is not possible. The welding of new connections on to operational subsea pipelines as satellite wells are added to increase production in an offshore
Wood Group Kenny has been appointed by BP to provide engineering design and project management services for the subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline (SURF) infrastructure for BP’s Quad 204 redevelopment project West of Shetland. Wood Group Kenny is responsible for the design of $1.2 billion worth o
Wood Group, the international energy services company, is focusing on growing its world-leading engineering, production facilities support and gas turbine services businesses following the acquisition of PSN and the disposal of its Well Support division. To facilitate engineering growth, the Enginee
Hydroid, Inc., a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime, the leading manufacturer of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) systems, announces that it has been awarded a major contract to provide AUVs and seafloor docking stations for the Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) component of the Ocean Observato
Cameron announced that it has renewed an agreement with Petrobras for the supply of aftermarket services and support for their developments offshore Brazil. This agreement is a continuation to the CAMSERV™ aftermarket services contract previously signed in 2007 and is expected to generate more than
Reinforcing its position as a leading supplier of subsea technology for North Sea oilfield projects, GE Oil & Gas announced at Offshore Europe 2011 that it will provide subsea production equipment to Valiant Causeway Ltd. for the development of the Causeway Field. GE will supply two subsea productio
