An oilfield services company, Expro, has secured a $45 million 4-year contract offshore Canada with Statoil in the Flemish Pass Basin, with options for two 1-year extensions. According to the company, the contract will include the provision of surface well testing and subsea safety systems, drill st
Benthic, a global geosciences company, has been awarded a contract by Statoil Canada Ltd for an offshore geotechnical investigation in the Flemish Pass region off the coast of Newfoundland. The contract includes the provision of geotechnical services required by Statoil to determine the slope stabil
Spain’s SENER is developing a new Multipurpose Subsea Support Vessel specially designed for subsea ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) light construction duties. According to the developer, the ship will have a length overall of more than 112 m, a length between perpendiculars longer than 100 m and a br
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (April 27 – May 03). Aberdeen-based subsea dredging and excavation specialist, X-Subsea UK Holding and its subsidiaries, have entered into Administration on April 27, 2015 following the collapse of wid
An expedition to survey the historic World War II shipwrecks of HMAS Sydney (II) and the German raider HSK Kormoran has produced new photographic evidence which appears to confirm why Sydney was so quickly disabled, leading to catastrophic damage and the devastating loss of everyone on board. New hi
Huisman, the specialist in lifting, drilling, and subsea solutions, has completed the setup of 550mt Pipelay Tower onboard the Subsea 7’s Seven Rio at its facility in Schiedam. In November last year, IHC successfully launched the 550t pipelaying vessel at its shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The
Subsea Services Alliance, the collaboration between OneSubsea and Helix, has announced the first joint technology project between the two companies to engineer and manufacture a 15,000-psi intervention riser system. According the Subsea Services Alliance, the IRS system is being engineered and built
The Board of Directors of Italian contractor Saipem has appointed Stefano Cao as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Stefano Cao will replace Saipem’s previous CEO Umberto Vergine, who was appointed back in December 2012. The appointment comes expected, after Italy’s oil & gas major Eni, whic
ION Geophysical Corporation has completed the company’s Barbados Reprocessing project, in coordination with the recent announcement of Barbados’ 2015 offshore licensing campaign. ION’s Barbados Reprocessing is a multi-client two-dimensional (2D) seismic program encompassing more than 9,000 km of new
On the west coast of central Norway the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) is carrying out a core drilling operation for a 15,5 km long subsea tunnel. Seismic surveys that have previously been carried out shows weakness zones in the rock that the tunnel must be drilled through. There may a
Chariot and its partners Cairn Energy and the SociétéMauritanienne des Hydrocarbures et de Patrimoine Miner (SMHPM), have secured a one year extension on the current exploration phase of the C-19 licence offshore Mauritania. As part of the extension, the Partnership has committed to undertake seabed
Statoil and the Malaysian oil and gas company PETRONAS completed their transaction, announced previously on October 13, 2014. The sale involved the transfer of Statoil’s 15.5% participating interest in the Shah Deniz production sharing agreement, 15.5% share in the South Caucasus Pipeline Company (S
A new robot has been introduced at the Port of Gothenburg. Its task will be to deploy booms in the event of an oil spill. This new technology should result a more rapid and safer oil spill clearance at the Port of Gothenburg. The Port of Gothenburg has invested SEK 3.5 million in an automatic [&hell
BP confirmed today the start of oil production from the Kizomba Satellites phase 2 development in Block 15, offshore Angola. Operated by ExxonMobil, the deepwater project is expected to produce around 70,000 barrels of oil per day at peak. “This is the first of BP’s planned start-ups for 2015 and is
