Offshore news

Senior representatives of a major Brazilian oil company and of a leading FPSO lease operator visited EM&I’s Technology Centre for demonstrations of state-of-the-art methods for inspection and maintenance of floating offshore installations.

Having the best equipment for the task in hand is essential, but maintaining it to ensure it always delivers is arguably even more important, as John Curno of Bosch Rexroth discusses.

The vessel and crew will support Neptune Energy B.V. with its IRM campaigns on the Dutch Continental Shelf from March 2019 until 2021.

The company, which is the operator of production licence 248 C, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 35/11-22 S.

The company has exercised an option for the purchase of a second newbuild Gusto MSC CJ46 design jackup rig from the PaxOcean Group for US$83.75 million.

The TSC U41™ is a diver- or ROV-deployable ACFM® inspection system for the detection and sizing of surface-breaking cracks.

Trendsetter’s scope of work included multiple clamp connection systems, subsea distribution equipment, MEG filter modules, 2 in. connection systems and subsea manifolds.

This follows sanction by BP, as the Operator, of the Atlantis Phase 3 project, announced in January 2019.

The Rowan Renaissance, an R-Class ultra-deepwater drillship, has been awarded a one-well contract in Mexico.

The company has completed the design and build of subsea production equipment for Noble Energy’s Leviathan Project.