Subsea
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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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May 08, 2015
Experts from the offshore energy industry around the world came together 4–7 May for the 2015 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) at NRG Park in Houston. More than 94,700 attendees from 130 countries gathered at the annual conference, representing the sixth-largest attendance in the OTC’s 47-year history.
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May 08, 2015
Mooring installation works have commenced at Ichthys field in the Browse basin, about 220 km offshore Western Australia, as part of the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project’s ongoing offshore installation campaign.
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May 08, 2015
Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract with a value of approximately $300 million for Wintershall Norge's Maria field development. The field is located in the Norwegian Sea at a water depth of approximately 300 m.
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May 07, 2015
Tracerco has launched a new product that enables oil companies to quickly scan many kilometers of pipeline to detect the location of deposits causing flow assurance issues.
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May 07, 2015
Applus RTD is celebrating the successful completion of the latest advanced non-destructive testing (ANDT) project with its RTD INCOTEST technology, which provides a unique solution for unpiggable subsea pipelines.
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May 06, 2015
The Lower Tertiary Wilcox trend is at the leading edge of the deepwater frontier in the Gulf of Mexico. Following the successes of Shell’s Perdido (120 Mbopd) and Petrobras’ Cascade (40 Mbopd) is Chevron’s Jack-St Malo (JSM) field, which produced first oil on December 1, 2014.
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May 06, 2015
Proserv has completed the first phase of one of its largest contracts yet, to provide subsea control systems for deepwater projects in Brazil.
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May 05, 2015
UNITED KINGDOM -- A new innovative precision engineering company for the marine industry has launched as Ocean Marine Systems Limited.
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May 05, 2015
HOUSTON -- Emerson Process Management has launched its next generation Roxar subsea Wetgas Meter for accurate production measurement, reduced risk, and improved flow assurance in gas and gas condensate fields.
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May 05, 2015
HOUSTON -- A new subsea company has been launched at OTC in Houston, Texas. Underwater Integrity Solutions (UIS), based in Houston, is an independent company focused on underwater integrity, production assurance and life extension for subsea fields.
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May 04, 2015
At a time when crude oil prices have declined drastically and rig counts are dropping, the chief upstream strategist for IHS offered a hopeful vision for deepwater exploration to OTC delegates.
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May 04, 2015
HOUSTON -- The management of data will emerge as a key component in the future as offshore drilling moves ahead, and must find solutions to the vast amount of it being processed, an industry leader said at an opening session of the 2015 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas.
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May 04, 2015
FMC has chosen DNV GL to perform independent third-party verification of a high pressure, high temperature (HPHT) subsea completion, production and work-over system. FMC is running this project as a joint industry program (JIP) with Anadarko, BP, Conoco Phillips, and Shell, to aim at product standardization and cost efficiency.
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May 04, 2015
Baker Hughes announced the introduction of its Hammerhead system—the industry’s first fully integrated wellhead-to-reservoir ultradeepwater completion and production system— at OTC 2015 on Monday.
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May 04, 2015
Expro has secured a key contract offshore Canada with Statoil in the Flemish Pass basin. The initial four-year contract is valued at $45 million with options for two one-year extensions.
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April 30, 2015
Subsea Services Alliance has announced the first joint technology project between OneSubsea and Helix to engineer and manufacture a 15,000-psi intervention riser system.
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April 30, 2015
BP has confirmed the start of oil production from the Kizomba Satellites phase 2 development in Block 15, offshore Angola. Operated by Exxon Mobil, the deepwater project is expected to produce around 70,000 bopd at peak.
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April 24, 2015
Fugro has set a new seafloor drill water depth record of 2,923 m while completing a combined sampling and piezocone penetration testing (PCPT) borehole to 62 m below the seafloor.
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April 23, 2015
HOUSTON -- OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger company, has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract to supply subsea systems for the BP West Nile Delta Taurus Libra development, offshore Egypt.
