Offshore news

Over the past year, the Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) has seen a growing appetite from companies looking to invest in the development of emerging technologies, as North Sea operators continue to demonstrate the benefits of technology-led solutions in response to the economic downturn.

The rationale behind Dubai Petroleum’s use of UAVs was to quickly complete detailed inspections of all their risers.

The Multiple Screw Pumps are designed to handle difficult media, including low to high lubricant fluids, and low to high viscosity, shear sensitive, or chemically aggressive media.

ProSep, an industry-leading technology and service provider for integrated process solutions, announced today it will supply three ProSalt™ units to Statoil Petroleum (Statoil) for the Johan Castberg field development project, located on the Norwegian continental shelf in the Barents Sea.

The agreement will see the two companies focus sharing of technical expertise in relation to spill preparedness and response.

Shallow water projects will be responsible for over 92% of upstream CAPEX.

The project represents the first offshore application for the SGT-750 gas turbine. Equipment delivery is anticipated mid-2019 with first oil planned for 2022.

The contract covers four cranes utilised on two Floating Production Offloading and Storage (FPSO) vessels, the Greater Plutonio and the PSVM, located in Blocks 18 and 31 respectively, which are situated 160 km north-west of Angola’s capital Luanda.

Heerema Fabrication Group awarded DGI Doedijns, specialist in engineered hydraulic solutions, to design and deliver the Flooding System Upend Control System for the ‘Peregrino II Jacket’.

Royal IHC has signed up TMC Compressors of the seas (TMC) to deliver a complete marine compressed air system to the integrated reel lay vessel the Dutch shipbuilder is constructing for Subsea 7.