Offshore & subsea

The launch of Armada will initially add fifteen bespoke designed marine robots to Ocean Infinity’s current fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles.

The company has also appointed Chris Forde as its regional vice-president for Asia-Pacific.

The Thailand-based company intends to utilise the subsidiary as a vehicle to expand the provision of its subsea and related services into the UK North Sea.

Following the agreement, Shell will assume the operation of the Fuerte Sur, Purple Angel and COL-5 blocks.

In the second part of this two-part article, Andrew Morris, Gareth Innes, Adrian Clark and Pierre-Marie Hinden, TWMA, and Laurie Phillips, AGR Well Management, discuss the advantages of adopting thermal processing technology for managing offshore drilling waste.

The company recorded underlying EBITDA of £8.8 million in 2019 (FY18 £8.7 million) after £1.1 million OPEX investment in global operations.

Grupo R is to lease the La Muralla IV platform for Shell to operate in the deepwaters of the Gulf of Mexico.

The company has been awarded contracts by Saudi Aramco, Eni and Noble Energy.

In the first part of this two-part article, Andrew Morris, Gareth Innes, Adrian Clark and Pierre-Marie Hinden, TWMA, and Laurie Phillips, AGR Well Management, explore an alternative method for to collect, contain and transfer waste generated from offshore drilling operations.

Equinor has said the target is expected to be met primarily through significant growth in renewables and changes in the scale and composition of the oil and gas portfolio.

The company's second subsea tree injection manifold has completed all testing and is now ready for deployment for hydraulic intervention operations.

The company will provide subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines, transportation and installation, pre-commissioning of one jacket and topsides for the Ruby Project offshore Trinidad and Tobago.

The company secured contracts in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea during the second half of 2019.

The alliance will provide clients with an integrated service across a wide range of complex projects in the UK North Sea and internationally.

Norway may restrict oil firms’ access to offshore resources in the Arctic by moving the so-called ice edge, a line that sets a legal limit on the extent to which companies can go north in search of oil.