Subsea news

Companies are invited to highlight the advances in underwater robotic technology at Subsea UK’s Underwater Robotics conference in Aberdeen later this year.

The initial deployment is expected in 2021 on a 20 000-psi well in the Gulf of Mexico.

A fully equipped laboratory in Houston, Texas, will provide calibration services for pressure, temperature, conductivity and sound velocity sensors.

The agreement between Güralp and Sonardyne was announced at the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers conference in London, UK, yesterday.

The Subsea Supply Chain Capability Showcase, an industry showcase designed to highlight the subsea capabilities in North East England to operators, will take place in Newcastle, in June.

Over the past six months, the company has been awarded contracts for the Total Tyra redevelopment project, an inspection, repair and maintenance campaign for Repsol Sinopec, a decommissioning contract with Spirit Energy, and a scale squeeze scope for Premier Oil’s Huntington field.

Ismael Ripoll will be responsible for leading the team which specialises in finite element analysis, covering a variety of areas including steel and flexible pipelines, pressure vessels and structures.

S-Cube says that its XWI algorithm has the predictive power to match rock measurements pre-drilling with up to 90% accuracy.

Effective immediately, the one-year contract will be delivered by Wood’s team based in Perth, Australia.

The company presented examples of how operators have realised the commercial and schedule benefits of open subsea architecture.