Offshore & subsea

Statoil is the operator for production licence 532 in the Barents Sea and has received consent to drill exploration well 7219/9-2 in a prospect named Kayak.

Trendsetter Engineering and Add Energy have combined expertise to provide market leading engineering and hardware support services to the industry’s most challenging problems in a nimble and responsive environment.

Integrity monitoring solutions specialist North East Corrosion Engineers (NECE), part of the ICR group, has secured a significant contract for the provision of corrosion and microbial monitoring services on four North Sea assets.

TechnipFMC and DOF Subsea (DOF) announce that the Skandi Búzios, a pipelay support vessel (PLSV) owned by the joint venture formed between TechnipFMC (50%) and DOF (50%), has begun its 8-year charter contract with Petrobras.

Decom North Sea, the membership organisation for the oil and gas late life and decommissioning sector, has published the programme for its flagship conference and exhibition, Decom Offshore 2017.

Trelleborg’s applied technologies operation has engineered and manufactured a custom syntactic foam buoyancy package for the Schmidt Ocean Institute for use on its new Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), SuBastian.

New guidance provides methodology for safer jackup foundation design and installation.

Total’s Moho Nord project is a deepwater exploration and production development, located 46 miles off the city of Pointe-Noire in the Republic of the Congo.

Jim Menard, The Weather Company, explains how on-platform weather radar is critical to offshore safety and efficiency.

NSRI to examine the technological needs for condition monitoring, predictive failure and maintenance.

Chief Executive Officer, Tony O'reilly, comments on the company's progress in 2016 and drilling plans for 2017.

Black Sea Oil & Gas SRL has announced the awarding of a contract for the drilling of two offshore exploration wells located in the XV Midia Shallow Block, Romanian Black Sea continental shelf, to GSP Offshore SRL.

Aker BP ASA is the operator of production licence 442 in the North Sea. Aker BP has made a discovery in a prospect named Frigg Gamma Delta, around 20 km east of the Frigg field.

Independent geoscience and engineering service provider, Next Geosolutions, has announced the acquisition of UK-based marine resource solutions company, RMS Submarine Ltd.

Despite the low cycle that the market is facing, a total of 30 crude and natural gas projects are expected to start operations in the North Sea by 2020.