Endeavor Management has released a proposal for a Joint Industry Project (JIP) to support the industry’s need for global best practice development in subsea decommissioning. The genesis of this JIP is the work completed for Petrobras by Endeavor Management to research global best practices for subse
InterOil Corporation and the PRL 15 joint venture participants have unanimously endorsed recommendations from Total SA for key project infrastructure sites for development of the Elk-Antelope gas field in Papua New Guinea. The central processing facility for the Elk-Antelope gas field, on which the
The results from the world’s first experiment into the realistic simulation of the potential environmental impact of a submarine CO2 leakage, which featured several studies by scientists from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and University of Southampton, have been published in a special issue
Shell has made the final investment decision (FID) to advance the Appomattox deep-water development in the Gulf of Mexico. This decision authorises the construction and installation of Shell’s eighth and largest floating platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The Appomattox development will initially produ
Subsea World News has gathered all the highlights to bring you a summarized version of the most popular articles from the previous month. The month of June has seen many companies announcing job cuts and business restructuring. Red7Marine has gone into administration with 47 jobs lost, Aker Solution
Global Maritime Deep Sea Mooring has been awarded a contract for the provision of mooring and rig positioning services to the Australian oil and gas company Quadrant Energy. Under the contract with Quadrant Energy, Global Maritime Deep Sea Mooring will perform mooring and rig positioning services fo
Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay Plc will today begin the tendering process for three main operations and maintenance (O&M) contract packages to support the £1billion Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon. Having previously named General Electric and Andritz Hydro as preferred bidders to manage the operations and mainte
Nord Stream has completed an external inspection of the two pipelines. The job was executed using an ROV, equipped with digital cameras, specific sensors and operated from a dedicated support vessel. The visual and instrumental (geophysical) inspection was performed on the whole length of the pipeli
Overseas Drilling and Texas A&M Research Foundation (TAMRF) have agreed the extension of TAMRF’s charter of the scientific research vessel ‘JOIDES Resolution’. According to Overseas Drilling’s parent company Siem Offshore, the extension is until September 30,2016 and TAMRF has further options to ext
Royal Navy divers have taken part in a multi-national bomb disposal exercise off the West coast of Canada. Exercise Ardent Defender saw bomb disposal teams from six nations converge on Victoria to teach military and civilian technicians the latest methods in disarming explosive devices. Eleven diver
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a cooperation agreement with Spectrum and Schlumberger in Mexico. The collaboration will acquire 80,000 – 100,000 kilometers of modern, long-offset 2D data encompassing all the major hydrocarbon provinces offshore Mex
Conductor Installation Services (CIS), an Acteon company that provides hammer services to install conductors and drive piles, has successfully completed a subsea piling operation for Subsea 7 in the UK North Sea. The operation was executed as part of the Cladhan field development, located approximat
Reach Subsea and MMT have established a Joint Venture agreement primarily for survey services. Consequently, the two parties have performed a charter restructuring arrangement, which should, according to Reach, add more flexibility to the business model and strengthen the companies’ combined market
Island Offshore has today lifted the remaining subjects in the shipbuilding contract with Kawasaki Heavy Industries for delivery of the Island Navigator. The vessel is a combined well intervention and tophole drilling vessel with equipment and capacity to perform a series of subsea and well operatio
