BP has sanctioned the Mad Dog Phase 2 project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Mad Dog Phase 2 will include a new floating production platform with the capacity to produce up to 140,000 gross barrels of crude oil per day from up to 14 production wells. Oil production is expected to begin in late 202
Bibby Offshore, a subsea services provider, has secured a new contract with Shell in the North Sea. The campaign, due to start in Q1 2017, will see Bibby Offshore provide engineering and subsea construction activities in the Gannet G field in the Central North Sea. Under the agreement, Bibby Offshor
Advisian, an independent advisory arm of the Australian engineering company WorleyParsons, will undertake a feasibility study for the development of its tidal energy system known as Tidal Turbine Reef (TTR).
Fugro said it has decided to no longer pursue the divestment of its subsea services business in Asia Pacific to Shelf Subsea. Namely, in August this year, Fugro signed a deal with Shelf Subsea to sell its subsea services business in Asia Pacific, however, Furgo informed that the parties were unable
Trelleborg’s offshore operation based in Houston has invested in a new ‘Global Riser Analysis’ team to incorporate in-house mathematical simulation capabilities into its current engineering group. The Global Riser Analysis team consists of local and global finite element (FE) and computational fluid
CWind, a provider of services to the offshore wind industry, has completed inspections of the monopiles, scour protection and cables at Amrumbank West offshore wind farm off the coast of Germany for E.ON. The V8 ocean modules inspection class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) was deployed from one of
Searcher Seismic, an independent provider of seismic data acquisition, has welcomed Department of Petroleum & Energy (DPE) representative, William Keket, to the Perth office. Keket is visiting Perth as part of a training initiative between Searcher Seismic and the DPE and will be assisting Searcher’
The light well intervention/dive support vessel, MSV Seawell, has returned to service after a £60-million investment by its owners, Aberdeen-based Helix Well Ops (UK). Launched 30 years ago at the Pallion yard in Sunderland by North East Shipbuilders, the 114-metre long vessel has undergone a refit
Statoil informed that the production drilling has started on the company’s operated Mariner field in the UK North Sea. The Mariner field is located on the East Shetland Platform of the UK North Sea, approximately 150 kilometers east of the Shetland Isles. Up to five wells will be drilled before the
Subsea 7 has been awarded a sizeable contract by Woodside Energy for the Greater Western Flank Phase 2 Project, offshore Australia. The Greater Western Flank is located on the North West Shelf of Australia, 60 km southwest of the Goodwyn Alpha (GWA) platform. The contract scope comprises the subsea
A technological consortium, led by the Government of the Canary Islands and the Ministry of Economy, has anchored the PLOCAN offshore platform to the seabed off Canary Islands, Spain.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), who is leading the search for the missing MH370 flight, has released sonar images of the man-made objects that are being examined by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). “The underwater search continues with an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) searchin
Aberdeenshire-based tidal energy developer, Current2Current (C2C), has completed the testing of its tidal energy device.
The European Commission has unveiled a package of measures designed to keep the European Union competitive as the clean energy transition is changing the global energy markets.
