Subsea news

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.

The opportunities which exist for Scottish companies to collaborate on R&D projects with Japan will be highlighted at a workshop at this year’s Subsea Expo.

The ‘Revitalising the UKCS’ conference session has been added to the Subsea Expo event.

Specialist subsea project delivery firms James Fisher Offshore (JFO) and First Subsea have joined forces to launch a revolutionary cut and lift product that promises to streamline decommissioning projects worldwide, simplifying operations whilst reducing costs and risk.