Saab Seaeye Falcon ROV spent three days gathering vital benthic data for an impact assessment of a proposed tidal array installation at Torr Head on Northern Ireland’s coast. Undertaking the assessment project was Marine Ecological Surveys Limited for their client, Tidal Ventures Ltd, who intend dev
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway PSA has carried out an audit of the integrity management of flexible risers and associated safety-related equipment at Gjøa. GDF SUEZ is the operator on the Gjøa field, which is an oil and gas field in the North Sea, around 45 km north-west of the Sognefjord. Gj
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has sold its stake in Petroleum Geo-Services worth in excess of $50 million, the Oslo-listed seismic player said today. The transaction happened yesterday, October 7, 2015 while PGS stock was trading between NOK37 and NOK38.8. According to PGS, at the day of transaction
Saipem has been awarded two new E&C offshore contracts cumulatively valued at more than EUR 600 million (USD 680 million). The first EPCI contract, awarded by Saudi Aramco, involves the engineering, procurement, transportation and installation of offshore structures including observation platform, w
Norwegian multi-client seismic data specialist, Spectrum, said it expects to report net revenues of approximately USD 18 million for the quarter, compared to USD 53 million same time last year. Based on preliminary figures for Q3 2015, Spectrum expects a positive net cash-flow of USD 13 million in Q
McDermott has been awarded a sizeable brownfield project by Qatar Petroleum for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of four wellhead jackets. Installation of two jackets in the Bul-Hanine field offshore east of Doha has been scheduled to be completed by December 2016 w
Norway’s Statoil informed that this morning (October 8) there was a report that oil had been observed in the sea close to the OLS B loading buoy at the Statfjord field. The oil spill was discovered during the loading of oil from the Statfjord A platform to the tanker “Hilda Knutsen” via the OLS B [&
A 16-foot long radar piece of a new VTS (vessel traffic system) was transferred by helicopter from EMEC’s Billia Croo wave test site to the Black Craig, Orkney. The Black Craig, which the European Marine Energy Center (EMEC) uses as an environmental observation point for its wave test site, stands a
French seismic contractor, CGG, has seen its vessel availability rate at 84 per cent, compared to a 74 per cent availability rate in the first quarter of 2015 and a 92 per cent rate in the second quarter of 2014. The vessel production rate was 92 per cent, compared to a historic high 94 per [&hellip
Claxton has developed an extension module for its Suspended Well Abandonment Tool (SWAT), which should enable its sister company, Offshore Installation Services (OIS), to set deeper environmental and intermediate barriers. Neil Watson, SWAT product leader, Claxton, said: “SWAT holds the Queen’s Awar
Navy personnel from Australia, Great Britain, the United States, New Zealand and Canada and observers from India and Sweden, began Exercise DUGONG 15, in the waters off Hobart, on October 05. The two week exercise involves the Huon class Mine Hunter, HMAS Yarra, personnel from the Mine Warfare Team
Following broad industry consensus, Standards Norway (SN) has published the fourth revision of subsea standard NORSOK – U001. According to SN, the NORSOK U-001 will be the most updated international available standard for subsea oil industry. It provides a method for design of subsea equipment to wi
The Delta Flume hydraulics research facility has been opened in Delft, the Netherlands. The Delta Flume will be the location for full-scale studies of the effects of extreme waves on dikes, breakwaters and offshore structures. It is 300 m long, 5 m wide and 9.5 m deep. According to Deltares, an inde
The following article, which discusses the growing use of drones in the wind energy industry, is published on Offshore WIND with permission from the author, Pieter Jan Jordaens, Business Development & Innovation manager at OWI-Lab, an offshore wind R&D initiative coordinated by Sirris, a collective
