Subsea news

The UK subsea sector will have the opportunity to strengthen its international presence at the largest oil and gas exhibition in Australasia next month.

Wood has secured a new US$13 million contract with Equinor to deliver engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) services to the Vigdis boosting station increased oil recovery (IOR) project.

Under the TechnipFMC/DOF joint venture agreement, TechnipFMC will manage flexible pipelay, and DOF will be responsible for marine operations.

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

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

Saint-Gobain Seals has been selected by a major US oil and gas corporation to qualify its Fluoroloy® sealing solutions and polymer materials to enhance oil recovery for an ultra-high pressure field in the Gulf of Mexico.

The three new patents cover certain aspects of Upwing’s high-speed motor drives and seal-less downhole system with a magnetically supported rotor, which underpin key elements of the SCS downhole artificial lift system.

More than 6500 visitors made their way to Europe’s largest subsea event, Subsea Expo, in Aberdeen this week.