SeaBird’s Northern Explorer has signed a letter of intent (LOI) for a 2D seismic survey in West Africa. M/V Northern Explorer, a 76 meters-long 2D/Source vessel, joined SeaBird, a global provider of marine acquisition for 2D/3D and 4D seismic data in 2005. According to Seabird, the survey size is ap
Det norske oljeselskap ASA (Det norske) and partners of the PL 340 license announce start-up of production from the Bøyla field. Bøyla is the fourth field in production in the Alvheim area. Total investments in the development of the Bøyla field amount to approximately NOK 5 billion. Recoverable res
Rem Offshore ASA has entered into a charter agreement with DeepOcean AS for the OCV vessel “Rem Forza”. According to Rem Offshore, the charter agreement is for a duration of three years with another three yearly options. Rem Forza is a subsea construction vessel built by Kleven in 2008 that came int
Maersk Oil and Heerema Fabrication Group have cut the first steel plate for the Culzean WHP jacket at the official ceremony held at Heerema Vlissingen yard. The jacket for the WHP is the first to be constructed and installed in range of the Culzean field and will be approximately 114 m tall with a f
Tata Communications and Seaborn Networks have announced Tata Communications’ investment for purchase of significant capacity in Seaborn Networks’ cable system between Brazil and US. Genius Wong, Senior Vice President, Global Network Services, Tata Communications says: “Latin America is a key emergin
Inpex has announced first production on January 16, 2015 at the Lucius Oil Field, which includes portions of Keathley Canyon blocks 874, 875, 918 and 919 in the US Gulf of Mexico. INPEX is involved in the project through subsidiary Teikoku Oil (North America) Co., Ltd. The Lucius Oil Field is locate
Uptime International has entered into contract with ESVAGT AS for the delivery of an active motion compensated gangway including an adjustable pedestal. The walk-to-work system will be mounted during early 2016 on their wind turbine service operation vessel (SOV). This is the first dedicated wind fa
Motive Offshore, headquartered in Boyndie, Aberdeenshire, has implemented a new safety and lean production scheme called 6S, to improve efficiency and safety in the work environment. The firm, which was established in 2010 by James Gregg, Dave Acton and Bob Smit, will utilise the Japanese developed
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (January 12 – January 18). GE Oil & Gas and McDermott International have launched io oil & gas consulting, a new independent venture to transform the development of front-end solutions for offshore fie
Det norske has decided to develop Viper-Kobra. The project comprises two small discoveries in the Alvheim area. According to plan, approximately 7 500 barrels will be flowing into the Alvheim FPSO every day around Christmastime 2016. Viper-Kobra is located in the Alvheim area and consists of two sep
Alcatel-Lucent and the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) consortium have successfully completed a field trial on the existing ACE system, which connects France to the west coast of Africa, based on 300 gigabit-per-second (Gbit/s) and 400 Gbit/s technology. They achieved a breakthrough transmission of 12.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled on the issues raised in the Phase 2 trial of the Deepwater Horizon case: the quantification of oil spilled and BP’s source control efforts following the accident. The Court found that 3.19 million barrels of oil were discha
Oilfield services major, Schlumberger, has decided to reduce its overall headcount, in response to lower commodity pricing and anticipated lower exploration and production spending in 2015. The company, which employs approximately 120,000 people in more than 85 countries, recorded a $296 million cha
Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, has signed an agreement to invest in the construction of the first direct subsea fiber optic cable between New York, USA, and Sấo Paulo, Brazil, on behalf of its clients. Partners Group is providing all of the equity financing for the pr
