Offshore & subsea

The agreement aims to deliver fewer interruptions to operations, which will result in benefits for both parties.

Global integrated subsea services business, Kreuz Subsea, has announced the appointment of Thomas Liew as the group’s chief financial officer.

Maersk Drilling has been awarded contract extensions for the high-efficiency jack-up rigs Maersk Resolute and Maersk Resolve by Petrogas E&P Netherlands B.V. and Wintershall Noordzee B.V., respectively.

Equinor has awarded Kvaerner an additional scope at Njord A to enable the platform to receive oil from the Fenja field. The additional scope has an estimated value of approximately NOK 500 million.

Centre is the only provider in the world with a self-propelled hyperbaric lifeboat.

The survey, located in water depths ranging from 2500 to 7250 ft., will employ two seismic source vessels and Fairfield Geotechnologies’ newest ocean bottom node technology, ZXPLR™.

The EM&I NoMan® remote camera technology has now been used to complete all the annual cargo tank inspections on an FPSO in the North Sea.

Will Scargill, Senior Analyst at GlobalData, offers his view on the impact of these new tax measures.

A total of 1766 blocks of open acreage is now available across the West of Scotland, the East Shetland Platform, the Mid North Sea High, South West Britain and parts of the English Channel.

Aker BP and Aker Solutions are forming an alliance to deliver modification projects on three of Aker BP’s fields.

The enthusiasm for newbuild orders across most shipping markets has started to wane after over US$10 billion were committed in Q1 2018. The total committed to new deliveries is now the lowest since the start of 2016.

The company, which has bases in Aberdeen, UK and Houston, Texas, has successfully conducted more than ten projects across the oil and gas and renewable markets.

Lerwick Harbour's latest involvement in the offshore industry has been completed with the departure of a turret buoy mooring system for Hurricane Energy's pioneering Lancaster development, west of Shetland.

Prosafe has signed a contract with Aker BP ASA for the Safe Scandinavia to provide accommodation support at the Ula platform in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

The global provider has supplied both projects with its state-of-the-art CALM Buoy Swivels; a sealing and bearing system, fully certified by DNV GL.