Offshore & subsea

The company has closed the previously announced strategic deepwater Gulf of Mexico joint venture with Petrobras America Inc., a subsidiary of Petrobras.

The conference was for their senior technical managers and major ship owners and took place in their state-of-the-art Global Ships Systems Centre (GSSC) in Athens, Greece.

Serica Energy plc has announced the completion of the acquisition of interests in the Bruce, Keith and Rhum fields and associated infrastructure in the UK North Sea from BP by Serica Energy (UK) Limited.

Under the terms of the three-year agreement, Petrofac’s Condition Monitoring team will provide onshore and offshore vibration analyses, and support TAQA in equipment troubleshooting and monitoring for its North Sea assets.

Global integrated subsea services business, Kreuz Subsea, has announced the appointment of Knut Eriksen as the board’s first independent non-executive director.

The company has announced that it has completed the acquisition of the remaining 75% interest in the Magnus oil field, an additional 9% interest in the Sullom Voe Oil terminal and supply facility and additional interests in associated infrastructure from BP as planned.

The Petroleum Safety Authority has granted the company consent to drill on the Bøyla field.

Aetna International looks at the challenge of employee health in the energy industry.

The high-end Nexans cable laying vessel has been designed by Skipsteknisk in Ålesund and will be constructed by Norwegian yard Ulstein Verft.

The company has been providing services on the Chevron-operated Gorgon and Wheatstone Projects and other assets since February 2015.

This is the first contract win for Texo Group’s MODU business unit, having won the contract through a competitive tendering process.

Subsea Connect, the Aptara™ TOTEX-lite subsea system and BHGE’s SPS Catalogue were unveiled to E&P customers at a launch event in Houston, USA.

As part of the transaction, Tullow will become the operator, and will partly carry Discover for a 3D seismic survey and the first exploration well.

The Iguana field remained undeveloped for over 34 years until DeNovo became the operator in 2016, and is the first gas development campaign in the Gulf of Paria.

The broad work scope for the 30 day campaign ranges from the provision of general visual inspection (GVI) services through to changing out subsea hardware in water depths of 1400 m, using the vessel’s 150 t crane.