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Trelleborg supports worlds first full scale floating wind turbineStatoil’s innovative new offshore floating Hywind wind turbine, now successfully moored in the North Sea off the Norwegian coast, is demonstrating how Trelleborg Offshore’s syntactic foam buoyancy technology is contributing to the future of offshore power generation. Full text |
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During the weekend, Aker Spitsbergen left Norway's Klosterfjorden in Sunnhordland community, for field deployment in the Norwegian Sea. The advanced drilling rig arrived on site Monday morning, ready for drilling and well operations at the Halten Nordland region, where Statoil is the operator. Full text
The field has been shut down since 31 August 2009, after a routine inspection revealed cracks in a water buffer tank at the Siri platform. A temporary solution involving a metal frame that stabilizes the tank is now in place. With Siri back in production, the production from the satellite fields Nini and Cecilie can also be resumed. The recently completed Nini East development will also start production shortly. Full text
Aker Barents commenced drilling operations for Det norske oljeselskap ASA on well 25/1-11 Storklakken in PL 460 on 31.December. The aim of these operations is to discover oil that can be tied back to a future installation on the Frøy field, and thus improve Frøy project economics. The rig has now completed the top section of the well and will go to shore too assemble six hydraulic cylinders that during Christmas was dismantled and sent for repair. Full text
Subsea 7 , one of the world's leading subsea engineering and construction companies, announced today the successful completion of the Girassol Pipeline Repair Project for Total E&P Angola. Full text
Seismic acquisition has now been initiated on the Justice Wide Azimuth (WAZ) 3D project in the Gulf of Mexico. The Justice project is a northeast expansion of the existing and contiguous Freedom and Liberty WAZ projects. The survey adds more than 7,800 km2 of WAZ coverage to the TGS portfolio and covers portions of the hydrocarbon rich areas of Mississippi Canyon, Viosca Knoll, and De Soto Canyon. Full text
UK-based specialist measurement technology company Optical Metrology Services (OMS) Ltd has successfully completed a six-week pipe inspection study for BP Exploration (Angola) Ltd, Block 31 PSVM deepwater Development in Angola. Full text
BJ Services Company today announced that it has completed a major contract to provide a range of precommissioning services for Helix Energy Solutions Group. The services were carried out on an 18-well subsea production system on the KG-D6 field in the Krishna Godavari Basin in the Bay of Bengal, offshore the east coast of India. Full text
TDW Offshore Services AS (TDW) announced that it has completed a pipeline pressure isolation operation in Malaysia with Amserve Engineering on behalf of Malaysia LNG Sdn Bhd (MLNG), a subsidiary of PETRONAS, the national oil company of Malaysia. Full text
The UK's leading supplier of subsea connection systems, First Subsea Ltd is an innovator in subsea connection and mooring systems for deepwater platforms, FPSOs, subsea field buoy, pipeline and turret architectures and marine energy. It is also a member of the Subsea UK Trade Group and The Society for Underwater Technology. Full text
Deepwater mooring specialist, First Subsea, has been awarded a contract by SOFEC Inc to supply the mooring connectors for the PSVM (Plutao, Saturno, Venus and Marte) FPSO to be installed in the ultra deepwater development in Block 31 offshore Angola. The FPSO is an external turret-moored FPSO in 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) of water. The double-hulled PSVM FPSO will have production capacity of 157,000 barrels per day. Full text