The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB) has permitted Shell Canada to resume drilling with restrictions at its Cheshire L-97 exploration well. Drilling was halted on March 5, 2016 after an operations incident on the Stena IceMAX drillship. After securing the exploration well with tw
Subsea 7 has entered into an agreement to substitute a pipelay support vessel (PLSV) working on a day-rate contract for Petrobras, offshore Brazil. Namely, the companies agreed to substitute the owned PLSV Seven Mar for the chartered PLSV Normand Seven in the existing Normand Seven contract. To remi
iXblue has baptised its new survey vessel Felix as the latest addition to its iXSurvey fleet. The Felix is a 25-meter catamaran designed to conduct hydrographic, biological and oceanographic missions. The vessel is developed and built by H2X, iXBlue’s shipyard in La Ciotat. Built in composite materi
Subsea 7 has announced a second phase of global resizing and cost reduction measures due to continued difficult business and economic conditions in the oil and gas market. Namely, the Group plans to resize its global workforce to approximately 8,000 by early 2017, down from the current level of 9,20
Delta Subsea and Boskalis Subsea Services have reportedly entered into a memorandum of understanding to provide integrated diving and ROV solutions in the Gulf of Mexico. The agreemend follows both companies working together over the past six years on a variety of projects, and reflects their decisi
During the test phase of the DolWin2 offshore grid connection, a cable component had failed repeatedly and TenneT decided to power off the system and has asked ABB to address the issue. The companies will now investigate whether an individual case or a systemic material error is in question, and the
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has carried out an audit of detail engineering of the Johan Sverdrup export pipelines. Johan Sverdrup export facilities consist of 274km long 36-inch oil pipeline to the Mongstad oil terminal and 165km long 18-inch gas pipeline to Kårstø gas terminal for p
Proserv has secured two new contracts with Talos Energy and Hess Corporation to carry out work at the operators’ Phoenix and Conger field expansion developments, in the Gulf of Mexico. Proserv will provide subsea communications and controls solutions to support the brownfield upgrade of the Phoenix
JDR has signed a framework agreement with Bibby Offshore for cable maintenance activities. Under the strategic alliance, JDR will provide cable maintenance services and offshore personnel, including high voltage and fibre optic cable jointers and associated competency systems. Bibby Offshore will de
Dynamic Systems Analysis and Mavi Innovations have issued a study that assessed the impact of floating debris on hydrokinetic energy converters in oceans and rivers as well as the risk of snagging these devices with marine tow cable.
Ithaca Energy informed that the access has been secured to the Norpipe oil pipeline system, allowing oil exports from the Greater Stella Area (GSA) to transfer from tanker export to pipeline export during 2017. The key work associated with creating a connection to the system has been executed as par
Ofgem has granted a licence for the Northconnect electricity interconnector between Great Britain (Peterhead Substation, Boddam, Aberdeenshire) and Norway (Sima Substation, Eidfjord). The NorthConnect is a proposed 650-kilometre 1,400 MW HVDC interconnector over the floor of the North Sea. Joint ven
InterMoor, an Acteon company and part of its foundations and moorings business, has completed its involvement in the Shell Malikai Tension Leg Platform (TLP) float-off operations. The TLP was loaded onto the Dockwise heavy-lift vessel White Marlin at Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMHE) ship
Fugro has secured three contracts for its Q1400 trenching systems to be deployed in the North Sea over the next 12 months for oil and gas clients. At the Wintershall-owned Maria development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, Fugro will deploy the Q1400 trenching system under a contract with S
