Equinor has started production from the Trestakk subsea field on Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea. Tied back to the Åsgard A floating production vessel, the field has estimated recoverable resources of 76 million barrels of oil. “Together with our partners ExxonMobil and Vår Energi we spent ample t
Rigmar has been contracted by Vattenfall, the Swedish energy group behind the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, to inspect and maintain subsea structures and cables as well as foundations, turbine transition pieces, subsea cabling and boat landings for the project. It is Rigmar’s first win a
Vattenfall has contracted the Aberdeen-based Rigmar to inspect and maintain subsea structures and cables as well as foundations, turbine transition pieces, subsea cabling, and boat landings at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC). This is Rigmar’s first win as a main contractor in of
James Fisher and Sons has recently secured a number of contracts in the offshore renewable energy sector with a combined value of circa £30 million. James Fisher has been awarded Phase 2 of the unexploded ordinance work and boulder clearance, as well as met mast (measurement tower) decommissioning o
Seabed Geosolutions has secured a 4D ocean bottom node (OBN) monitor survey in West Africa for a major oil company. The project, for which the data is expected to be acquired over a two-month period during the third quarter of 2019, will cover 151 square kilometers in water depths up to 600 meters.
The Dales Voe decommissioning facility in Shetland has seen the arrival of two new installations from the North Sea for decommissioning by strategic partners Veolia and Peterson. The structures from Spirit Energy’s ST-1 arrived in the dedicated port facility on Monday. Now at the end of their workin
Expro has secured a contract by Pacific Drilling’s subsidiary, Pacific Santa Ana, for the provision of an Intervention Riser System (IRS) for PETRONAS’s Chinguetti field Phase II plug and abandonment (P&A) contract, offshore Mauritania. The contract, valued at $20 million, will see Expro provide its
Balticconnector project offshore pipeline construction work in the sea has completed on Friday. Pipe laying was finished at the end of June, and the shielding work began in mid-June. Now that the shielding work has been finished, all construction work in the sea has been completed. Next, the offshor
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (July 08 – July 14). https://subseaworldnews.com/2019/07/10/mcdermott-cooec-land-3-billion-saudi-aramco-deal/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2019/07/10/subsea-7-wins-with-equinor/ https://subseaworldnews.
Italian cabling and fiber-optics giant Prysmian has inaugurated its South America regional headquarters with the expansion of its Sorocaba factory in the region of Brazil’s São Paolo province. Prysmian is thus leaving its Santo André facility and integrating the Prysmian and General Cable organisati
Norwest Energy has informed that seismic acquisition operations have been completed on the Xanadu 3D Transition Zone in exploration permit TPI 15, north of Perth, Western Australia. Surveying of the western panel was completed on Thursday, the company informed. Contractor Synterra Technologies is cu
Aker BP has made an oil discovery in the NOAKA – North of Alvheim Krafla Askja – area in the Norwegian section of the North Sea. Aker BP is about to complete the Liatårnet exploration well in licence 442 in the NOAKA area. The well has proved oil with a gross resource estimate of 80-200 […]
C-Kore Systems has completed another offshore campaign for the unnamed client off the West Australian North West Shelf. C-Kore’s subsea testing tools located the faulty subsea equipment allowing it to be replaced to make the field operational again, the company explained. Stephen Leung, Subsea Contr
Fugro has provided remote positioning services onboard a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for Bluewater during subsea inspection, repair and maintenance campaign in the North Sea. The week-long operation included accurate remote configuration of the positioning systems onboar
