Offshore news

VeristarAIM3D, the ‘software as a solution’ for asset integrity, will be deployed on three of MISC’s Floating Production Systems (FPS)

WFS Technologies, University of Aberdeen and the Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) have announced a joint technology project to design and build the world’s first ExtremeEdge OLM (On-line Monitoring) system for offshore subsea and platform structures.

Well-Safe Solutions has now set up five different P&A clubs to reduce the cost of well plug and abandonment, following significant interest in this innovative approach by operators in the North Sea.

The 6300 ft2 space includes the OTC Solutions operations office and a training centre for OTC course offerings.

Working for multi-client geoscience data company, TGS, Fugro continues the hunt for hydrocarbon seeps, this time offshore Brazil.

BP has ordered Nexans’ static and dynamic umbilicals and accessories that will be deployed in water depths from approximately 1280 m to 2160 m (4200 ft to 7100 ft) to connect the field to the Floating Production Unit (FPU).

The contracts are with Anglo-French independent operator Perenco and its Congolese subsidiary Perenco Congo SA, Maersk Drilling in Trinidad, and international EPC contactor CNGS Group.

Over 140 senior executives from the oil majors, operators, class societies, service companies, academic & research establishments and regulators, met in Cumbria this month for the 40th anniversary of the FPSO Forum, held for the first time in the UK.

The Aberdeen-based company will provide propelled and non-propelled accommodation jack up rigs to operators until the end of 2018.

Cabot Energy announces that the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), which was submitted to the Italian Ministry of the Environment for the drilling of an exploration well on the Vesta prospect, offshore Sicily, has been approved by the Italian regulatory authorities.