Subsea

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June 22, 2015
Offshore Installation Services (OIS), an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract by Antrim Energy to decommission four subsea wells in the central North Sea. The offshore scope of the campaign, which also includes six wells from Centrica Energy, will include complete offshore and onshore project management, vessel charter, equipment and personnel.
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June 19, 2015
Aker Solutions and Baker Hughes have agreed to cooperate on early-phase studies to help customers improve the overall economics and value of oil and gas field developments.
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June 16, 2015
Ceona, a SURF contractor with deepwater subsea construction capabilities, has announced that Mark Preece, the company’s executive V.P., commercial and business development, has been appointed as CEO.
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June 15, 2015
J2 Subsea, an Acteon company, has opened a new subsea tooling facility at sister Acteon company, Seatronics’, subsea electronics location in Houston.
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June 11, 2015
Aker Solutions has notified employees at its subsea services facility in Ågotnes, Norway, that it has become necessary to adjust the plant’s workforce capacity because of a decline in activity in the Norwegian market.
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June 11, 2015
Two-thirds of North Sea oil and gas industry operators (67%) have been forced to cancel projects because of the recent fall in oil price, according to an industry report published Thursday.
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June 10, 2015
An equipment failure that’s delayed Chevron Corp.’s $5.1 billion Big Foot deepwater oil project will reduce the company’s production target by less than 25,000 bopd in 2017, the company said.
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June 10, 2015
NorSea Group (UK) Limited has won northeast Scotland’s first major “small piece” decommissioning contract.
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June 09, 2015
The installation of the modules that collectively constitute Åsgard field's subsea gas compression system has commenced, Statoil announced Tuesday.
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June 09, 2015
EMAS AMC, the subsea division of EMAS, has announced that its flagship subsea construction vessel, Lewek Constellation, has established an industry record for pipelay in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GoM).
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June 08, 2015
Delmar Systems has created a new R&D team dedicated to developing innovative mooring and subsea technology.
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June 04, 2015
Xodus Subsea has appointed a General Manager and Business Development Manager to drive activity in the Americas, as the company aims to challenge the largest tier one subsea engineering companies for a share of the market in the region.
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June 01, 2015
Chevron is moving the Big Foot tension-leg platform (TLP) to sheltered waters from its location in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico following damage to subsea installation tendons.
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May 29, 2015
Jee Ltd, an independent multi-discipline subsea engineering and training firm, has completed a contract with Decom North Sea (DNS), the representative body for the decommissioning industry, to identify pioneering methods of salvage and re-use options for concrete subsea mattresses.
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May 29, 2015
Seatronics, an Acteon company, has signed a rental agreement with Neptune Oceanographics. Seatronics now has access to Neptune’s range of leak detection systems globally.
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May 28, 2015
OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger company, has been awarded a subsea production systems contract totaling more than $330 million for a gas project offshore North Africa.
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May 26, 2015
Bordelon Marine has taken delivery of the M/V Shelia Bordelon, a DP2 Ultra-Light Intervention Vessel (ULIV).
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May 13, 2015
Offshore Installation Services (OIS), an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract to decommission multiple wells in the North Sea by Centrica Energy.
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May 13, 2015
A group of ex-FMC employees have teamed up with subsea installation player DeepOcean to found Optime Subsea Services, whose multiCompletionSystem (mCS) can provide up to 80% time and cost savings on subsea tree installations as compared to traditional solutions.
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May 13, 2015
Subsea 7 announced Tuesday that in view of the difficult business and economic conditions in the oil and gas market and declining workload, a program of cost reduction measures will be implemented including a re-sizing of the fleet and workforce, and the restructuring of its corporate organization.
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May 11, 2015
Wood Group Kenny (WGK) has secured a five-year contract with Oil Spill Response (Capping) Ltd. (OSRCL) to provide the maintenance support for a key part of a containment toolkit that would be used to control hydrocarbon release in the event of a subsea well control incident.
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