The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted consent to Equinor for start-up of the Aasta Hansteen facility in the Norwegian Sea, during the course of autumn 2018. Aasta Hansteen is located approximately 320 kilometers west of Bodø in a water depth of 1270 meters. The field is developed with a SP
UK-based survey specialist Bibby HydroMap has completed testing of ‘DriX’, the 8-meter Autonomous Unmanned Survey Vessel (AUSV) developed by iXblue. DriX has the ability to accommodate a hydrographic and geophysical survey payload and to aid positioning of underwater vehicles, facilitating data coll
Prysmian Group has secured three projects to provide new cable connections for offshore wind farms in France. Eolien Maritime France, a joint venture between the EDF Energies Nouvelles and Enbridge, awarded Prysmian with the design, supply and installation contract of inter array cables for the two
TDI-Brooks International has, under contract with TGS, deployed the R/V Proteus to Brazil to begin an offshore coring program with advanced geochemistry analysis. The multi-client program in Brazil will span over 4 months for the Proteus, to include 330 Piston Cores, 33 JPCs and 33 HF sites, with a
i3 Energy has contracted Gardline Limited to conduct a site survey at its Liberator field, located in Blocks 13/23d and 13/23c offshore UK. The survey will cover the two production well locations to be drilled during the Phase I development of the Liberator oil field, a survey of the planned export
JDR Cables Systems (JDR), part of TFKable Group, has been awarded a five-year long term service agreement with Wild Well Control, a Superior Energy Services company. The agreement will see JDR design, manufacture and assemble intervention, workover and control systems (IWOCS) to be deployed in conju
Galloper Wind Farm Limited Ltd has awarded a contract to Granada Material Handling Ltd for service and maintenance of all 58 davit crane units installed on the 353MW project, 56 on wind turbine foundations and two on the offshore substation.
Ultra Deep Solutions has said it will begin design, engineering and build on its sixth diving support and construction vessel (DSCV). The vessel will be a new Hybrid design keeping to the companies philosophy on environment and efficiency. This new “Hybrid” will be 125 meters LOA and 25 meters BEAM,
Tyne Subsea, a multi-million pound research and testing facility being developed in the North East, UK, has completed its first commercial test in one of Europe’s largest commercially available hyperbaric pressure testing chambers. The facility, which is being developed by engineering group British
Schlumberger has introduced the GyroSphere MEMS gyro-while-drilling service at Offshore Northern Seas (ONS). The GyroSphere service responds to the needs of E&P companies for a faster and more rugged, gyro-surveying while-drilling tool that increases drilling efficiency and reliability while reducin
A MoD Salvage Diving Team has purchased a custom rack mounted version of C-Tecnics’ portable system, the C-Vision, which has been tailored for fixed installations including dive control containers. The ‘C-Vision 4R’ was selected by UK-based equipment manufacturer Submarine Manufacturing and Products
Fugro has completed the geophysical acquisition portion of a 2018 Carson Basin seep hunting programme offshore eastern Canada. The workscope covers an area of 18,875 square kilometres in water depths from 300 to 3,300 metres in this frontier region offshore Newfoundland. From its deepwater survey ve
Well-Safe Solutions is marking its one year anniversary with news that it’s about to acquire its first asset, is tendering for major P&A projects and has increased its headcount to 35. In just over 12 months, the Aberdeen-based well abandonment specialist has amassed the largest concentration of dec
Odfjell Drilling has awarded Kongsberg Maritime the contract to deliver a real-time monitoring and advisory solution to provide operational safety and non-productive time (NPT) improvements for the 6th generation semi-submersible, Deepsea Stavanger. The contract is in specific relation to an upcomin
