Offshore & subsea

Having the best equipment for the task in hand is essential, but maintaining it to ensure it always delivers is arguably even more important, as John Curno of Bosch Rexroth discusses.

The vessel and crew will support Neptune Energy B.V. with its IRM campaigns on the Dutch Continental Shelf from March 2019 until 2021.

The company, which is the operator of production licence 248 C, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 35/11-22 S.

The company has exercised an option for the purchase of a second newbuild Gusto MSC CJ46 design jackup rig from the PaxOcean Group for US$83.75 million.

James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS), a leading provider of integrated marine services, has completed an important diving activity for an international oil and gas exploration and production company, Premier Oil UK.

The TSC U41™ is a diver- or ROV-deployable ACFM® inspection system for the detection and sizing of surface-breaking cracks.

Trendsetter’s scope of work included multiple clamp connection systems, subsea distribution equipment, MEG filter modules, 2 in. connection systems and subsea manifolds.

This follows sanction by BP, as the Operator, of the Atlantis Phase 3 project, announced in January 2019.

The Rowan Renaissance, an R-Class ultra-deepwater drillship, has been awarded a one-well contract in Mexico.

The company has completed the design and build of subsea production equipment for Noble Energy’s Leviathan Project.

Saint-Gobain Seals has been selected by a major US oil and gas corporation to qualify its Fluoroloy® sealing solutions and polymer materials to enhance oil recovery for an ultra-high pressure field in the Gulf of Mexico.

The three new patents cover certain aspects of Upwing’s high-speed motor drives and seal-less downhole system with a magnetically supported rotor, which underpin key elements of the SCS downhole artificial lift system.

The PSA has given Aker BP consent to use the Deepsea Stavanger mobile drilling facility for production drilling on the Volund field in the North Sea.

The company has begun operations on a 4-month geotechnical campaign in the BM-C-33 and BM-S-8 blocks located off the coast of Brazil.

The company has released a report that provides the current status of, and contract information for, the company’s fleet of offshore drilling rigs.