Offshore & subsea

New technology improves asset inspection efficiency and reduces costs.

The vessel will be deployed at the deepwater Karish-Tanin development, offshore Israel.

The two-year agreement will see Bibby Offshore carry out inspection repair and maintenance (IRM) works, ROV inspection and subsea survey operations across a number of North Sea structures and pipelines.

McDermott International, Inc. has announced a contract award from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for subsea umbilical and flowline installation in support of a tieback to Anadarko-operated Lucius field located 275 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

Italian energy company Eni and US based Stone Ridge Technology announced that they have entered into a cooperative agreement designed to advance and accelerate the development of ECHELON®, SRT’s pioneering high-performance reservoir simulator.

Polarcus Limited has announced that the Company has received a Letter of Award for an XArray 3D marine seismic acquisition project in Asia Pacific.

PetroMarker announces that it has obtained industry support to acquire a 3D vertical multi-client EM project in the Northern North Sea.

Up to 2400 Statoil workers are starting to mobilise for the hook-up and completion of the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea.

In this opinion piece, Azeez Mohammed, President and CEO of GE's Power Conversion business, discusses the vision of a digitalised offshore future.

TMC Compressors of the Seas (TMC) has signed two contracts to supply a total of five marine compressors to a FSRU that Hyundai Heavy Industries is building for Swan Energy Ltd.

Combi Lift has been contracted by the Linde Group as a logistics partner for oversized and heavy cargo for the Gazprom Amur Gas Processing Plant project.

Aker BP ASA, operator of production licence 790, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 34/2-5 S. The well is dry.

Total operates five blocks in the Foz do Amazonas basin (referenced as FZA-M-57, FZA-M-86, FZA-M-88, FZA-M-125 and FZA-M-127) located around 120 km offshore Brazil. 

EM&I's ODIN access ports for valve inspections and repairs have rapidly become the preferred method of carrying out this activity, as divers are not required, and all the work can be carried out while the vessel is on station, on hire, and in operation.

A subsea technology specialist that has deployed revolutionary products for the global oil and gas industry says the sector needs to address the growing urgency for high-pressure connectors – as deepwater field developments are on the rise once again.