All three sections of the first of Nord Stream’s twin 1,224 kilometre natural gas pipelines have now been joined together underwater by hyperbaric tie-ins. The completed pipeline through the Baltic Sea will now be prepared for connection to the landfalls in Russia and Germany later in the summer. Th
Forum Energy Technologies (FET) announced the sale of two of its high performance Perry Triton® XLX ROV systems to global seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services company, Subsea 7. The systems will be mobilized on-board the Grant Candies construction vessel at the end of June, in su
Aker Solutions’ geo business has signed a three-year frame agreement with Eni Norge AS to supply sub-surface consultancy services within the areas of geology, geophysics, petrophysics, reservoir technology, well site and operations geology. Contract value is undisclosed. The agreement is valid a per
L&N have appointed Jason Craig as their new Welding Engineer and launch new Welding Development Services. Jason has spent the past ten years employed by a local metallurgy laboratory having spent the past 5 years in the position of Welding Services Manager. Jason will now be responsible for developi
A&P Group has won a contract with an important new client, P&O Maritime Services, carrying out conversion work on the company’s impressive European Supporter cable-laying vessel. The Group’s Hebburn yard has carried out numerous repairs and refurbishments for P&O Ferries but this is their first comm
Expro announces a major new investment programme that will reinforce the group’s leading position as a supplier of innovative technology and specialist services to the upstream oil and gas sector. The programme includes expanding the group’s established fleet of Subsea Safety Tools and Well Test Pac
Dresser-Rand Group Inc. and Statoil announced that they have launched a joint research and development project based on Dresser-Rand’s Integrated Compression System (ICS). The ICS is an advanced technology platform that uses high-efficiency DATUM centrifugal compressor technology driven by a high sp
Following his success in receiving the South West Director of the Year title, Neil has now been named as a finalist for the 2011 UK Director of the Year Award (small & medium company category). This category is for directors of companies with 250 or fewer employees. The awards ceremony takes place o
Viper Subsea won the award for brand at the Media Innovation Awards. During their rebranding in 2010, Viper Subsea worked with, and through, The Design Programme to help define the business branding needs. Bath agency Mytton Williams were subsequently selected as design agency for the entire re-bran
The Brazilian National Oil Company, Petrobras has approved delivery of READ’s new and innovative Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (PRM) System, the PerForM™. An audit and Final Acceptance Test (FAT) of the system was completed by Petrobras representatives at READ’s facilities in Houston, Texas, in Apr
OSD-IMT, the UK arm of Offshore Ship Designers, has been chosen by Samsung and Boskalis-SMIT Engineering to develop the basic design, detailed design and production drawings for a 99 m cable laying vessel. Neil Patterson, managing director of OSD-IMT, says, “This project illustrates perfectly the st
Marine Simulation LLC announced the release of ROVsim2 O&G and ROVsim2 Pro – their new family of next generation undersea robotics training simulator systems. ROVsim2 reflects an important step in the development of 3D simulation and integrates a number of important new features and enhancements, in
Researchers who discovered a sunken Navy submarine in which 42 sailors drowned off Key West more than 60 years ago are beginning the next… (keysnews) [mappress] Source: keysnews, June 20 , 2011;
Aker Solutions has secured a contract for subsea compression topside modifications of the Åsgard A and B platforms with Statoil. The contract value is approximately NOK 650 million. The purpose of the modification is to supply electricity to the Åsgard subsea compressor units, which will be installe