Offshore & subsea

Technip Umbilicals Ltd has received a contract by Statoil ASA to supply the umbilical to the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 field offshore Norway.

Old and partly lost slots that were given up as providers of new production triggered new solutions for Snorre B.

Goltens Worldwide has received three contracts for the engineering and turnkey installation of sixteen optimarin ballast systems (OBS) on ten naval vessels.

Yamal oil has been shipped by sea for the first time in the history of Russia's oil and gas industry.

Under the contract Bibby Offshore is to provide subsea construction, ROV and diving services at the largest oilfield in the North Sea.

Tap Oil Ltd has provided an update on the Sri Trang-1 well in the Northern Gulf of Thailand (Tap 30% interest).

BP has started up a major water injection project at its Thunder Horse platform, extending the production life of one of the biggest deepwater fields in the US Gulf of Mexico.

The new ESAB WeldCloud™ online data management platform works with ESAB’s Aristo® Mig semi-automatic, Aristo Mig 5000iR robotic and LAF/TAF sub arc welding systems.

The project is the removal of multiple well Christmas trees on surface platforms in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt.

Ferguson has announced the hiring of Sonnie Groombridge to the new role of APAC Business Unit Manager.

The contract was awardd by GE Oil & Gas, on behalf of operator ONGC, for the Vashishta & S1 project.

The company will continue to provide marine warranty services to ONGC’s fleet of jack-up rigs and MOPUs in Indian waters.

DNO ASA has reported that the Hayah-1 exploration well in Oman's onshore Block 36 failed to encounter hydrocarbons.

In the 23rd licensing round, the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has offered DEA Norge two new licences in the Barents Sea.

The global offshore drilling rig industry is expected to grow from an estimated US$65.77 billion in 2014 to US$102.47 billion by 2019.