DNV GL Wins with American Petroleum Institute

The American Petroleum Institute has awarded a contract to DNV GL for the full-scale fatigue testing of large diameter bolts. The objective of the program is to improve fatigue assessments of critical bolted connections particularly in subsea applications by generating new test data. This testing will take place within DNV GL’s global laboratory network involving […]

Decom North Sea Gets Decommissioning Challenge Fund Grant

Decom North Sea has secured a Decommissioning Challenge Fund (DCF) grant award from the Scottish Government. The £5 million fund aims to provide opportunities for the supply chain in Scotland supporting the acceleration of projects to develop investment grade business cases, and to fund new structures and infrastructure, allowing recipients to compete within the decommissioning […]

Export Cable Completion for Hornsea One

Export cable installation at Hornsea One offshore wind farm has been completed months ahead of schedule, Ørsted said on Tuesday. With offshore export cables totaling 467 kilometers, around the same distance as London to Newcastle, plus an onshore cable route of 38 kilometers connecting each of the three strings to the national grid, it is said […]

UTEC Gets McDermott Contract for Work Off India

UTEC, a part of Acteon, has been awarded a subcontract by McDermott International for a series of survey work scopes offshore eastern India. UTEC will provide surface and subsea positioning services during the installation of subsea flowlines, pipeline end manifolds and terminations, jumpers, risers and umbilicals that form part of the development […]

DeltaTek Adds New Team Member

DeltaTek Global has appointed Chris Johnstone as operations supervisor. Chris will be focusing on managing wellsite operations offshore and helping to design and develop new technologies. He will also be responsible for implementing an equipment maintenance system and subsequent procedures. Prior to his appointment, Chris was a wellsite drilling engineer/performance coach at […]

Archer Knight Adds Scrimgeour to Its Board

Aberdeen-based market intelligence and subsea consultancy, Archer Knight, has said that John Scrimgeour will join its board as non-executive chairman. Scrimgeour has held numerous senior leadership positions throughout his career, including regional manager North West Europe for Suncor and general manager of overseas subsidiaries for Perenco and CMS in Tunisia, Congo, Gabon and Colombia. He […]

Eni Starts Vandumbu Field in Angola

Eni has started production from the Vandumbu field through West Hub N’Goma FPSO in Block 15/06, approximately 350 km North West of Luanda and 130 km West of Soyo, Angola. First oil from the Vandumbu field was achieved in late November 2018. This, along with the start-up of a Subsea Multiphase Boosting […]

ADVA Trial Achieves 300G Over Trans-Atlantic Fiber Link

ADVA said that its FSP 3000 CloudConnect TeraFlex has succeeded in transporting 300Gbit/s of data per wavelength over a 6,800-kilometer fiber link. Conducted alongside ADVA’s partner Acacia Communications, the trial was the first in the industry to cover the trans-Atlantic distance with a fiber link typical of a cost-optimized submarine cable using […]

Spectrum Begins Potiguar Basin Seismic Off Brazil

Spectrum has started a 3D seismic survey in the Potiguar basin offshore the Equatorial Margins of Brazil. The survey comprises 10,700 square km covering blocks that were recently awarded in the 15th license round and open acreage blocks scheduled for the 17th Round in 2020. The survey is being acquired with a […]

Shearwater in New Contract Wins

Shearwater GeoServices has secured several projects equivalent to eight vessel months in the Arabian Sea. The first seismic survey is awarded by Eni Oman in partnership with Oman Oil Company Exploration and Production in Block 52, offshore Oman. The survey, due to start later this year, will be conducted by the Polar […]