BMT and Sonardyne Team Up on Subsea Monitoring
Engineering consultancy BMT and subsea technology company Sonardyne have signed an agreement to provide marine integrity monitoring solutions to the oil and gas industry. The official teaming agreement between BMT and Sonardyne, announced today at the Rio Oil & Gas exhibition and conference in Brazil, should allow the two companies to collaboratively provide smarter and […]
Infinera Ups Spectral Efficiency Over MAREA Cable System
Infinera, provider of intelligent transport networks, said it has successfully completed a series of record-breaking submarine field trials over MAREA, a 6,600-kilometer submarine cable between Virginia Beach, Virginia and Bilbao, Spain. The trials used Infinera’s fourth-generation Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE4) advanced coherent technology to achieve new records for trans-Atlantic real-time spectral efficiency: 6.21 bits per […]
BP Gets Nod for Vorlich Development in North Sea
BP has received UK government approval to proceed with the Vorlich development in the central North Sea, targeting 30 million barrels of oil equivalent and expected to produce 20,000 barrels gross a day at peak. The £200 million project is part of a programme of North Sea subsea tie-backs that will deliver […]
Okeanus Winch for MBARI | Subsea World News
Okeanus Science & Technology (Okeanus) has delivered the Okeanus model ECO 2000 all-electric winch to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). The ECO 2000 winch is designed for a wide variety of oceanographic applications such as water sample profiling, CTD, towing, bottom grab sampling or other similar operations. The winch assembly […]
Delmar to Provide Drilling Rig Mooring in Equatorial Guinea
Delmar Systems has received a mooring contract for the Development Driller III semi-submersible ultra-deepwater drilling rig for ExxonMobil’s drilling campaign offshore Equatorial Guinea. Under the contract Delmar will provide engineering design services, project management, mooring equipment, and mooring installation services for the Transocean-owned Development Driller III. The Development Driller III is planned to be on 8-point […]
Noble, Delek, East Gas Co Strike $518M EMG Pipeline Deal
Noble Energy said it has executed multiple agreements to support delivery of natural gas from the Leviathan and Tamar fields, offshore Israel, into Egypt. J. Keith Elliott, Noble Energy’s senior vice president, Offshore, stated: “Today’s announcements mark significant steps forward in supplying natural gas from the world-class Tamar and Leviathan fields to regional customers through […]
Oceanteam Nets McDermott Gig for CSV Southern Ocean
Oceanteam has secured a contract from McDermott for the utilization of its construction support vessel Southern Ocean on a subsea installation project off the East Coast of India. Mobilization of the CSV Southern Ocean will start at the end of the year and the works are expected to be completed in the second quarter of […]
FMGC Trials Ballast System for Subsea Cables at SEM-REV Site
FMGC has recently installed the cast iron shells (IBOCS) – developed to ballast subsea electrical cables – at a depth of 30 meters on the Centrale Nantes SEM-REV offshore test site. These tests are part of the FORESEA project, which aims to help bring marine renewable energy (MRE) technologies to market by […]