Subsea news

UK-based oil and gas subsea equipment specialist Express Engineering has announced a six-figure investment in new precision welding equipment and capabilities as it expands its sector operations to support customers.

Based on preliminary estimates the size of the discovery is between 25-50 million bbl of recoverable oil equivalent.

Siemens Energy will supply both the power generation and compression packages for the Petrobras-operated P-78 FPSO.

Equinor and partner Cenovus Energy have not yet made a final investment decision on whether to build the Bay du Nord offshore project.

The offshore works saw the recovery of 135 concrete mattresses, more than 12 km of rigid pipelines, 15.5 km of flexibles, and around 1500 grout bags.

TGS has announced a new 3D seismic survey in partnership with Schlumberger.

The end user, a major operator, will deploy Oceanic Environmental Control Fluid in a field in the North Sea.

The campaign execution will involve the recovery of 18 Subsea XTrees, 18 Flowbases and associated spool sections, one wellhead severance and recovery of up to 18 Temporary Guide Bases at the Enfield Field, Australia.

McDermott's scope involved a tieback of a single in-field well to existing facilities, re-using existing flexible flowline, with a new umbilical and certain infrastructure.

MAATS Tech was named subsea company of the year and David Bruton, Director Subsea at Crondall Energy, was recognised for his outstanding contribution to the industry.