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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 |
BP: Static Kill Injectivity Testing Commences on MC252 Well
Success for Wilton as SAIPEM J Lay Tower sets sail
CTC Marine Projects Commences Cable Load out for the Wave Hub Project
Marathon Announces First Oil From Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Droshky Development
Marine Subsea praised for Repsol prep work
ORE Offshore ships long-life acoustic release transponders
Seadrill's ninth consecutive ultra-deepwater newbuild commences operations
PSA has granted Shell consent to use Ormen Lange subsea template D with appurtenant lines
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Subsea 7's new state-of-the-art remotely operated vehicle support vessel (ROVSV), the ‘Normand Subsea', has commenced her first project for Shell in the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Full text
BISSO MARINE, a premier provider of energy and maritime support services, successfully buried a pipeline 16 feet below the hardened seabed of the Gulf of Mexico. Working in 54 feet of water, the crew of the DLB BIG CHIEF installed a hot tap and used one of the company’s three 2,700 gpm@1,150 psi Super Jet Pump Systems to bury 13,893 feet of pipeline 10 miles off Galveston Island. Full text
The fire on Seadrill's West Atlas mobile offshore drilling unit and PTTEPA's Montara wellhead platform in the Timor Sea was extinguished on 3 November 2009, following a successful operation by Seadrill's West Triton mobile drilling unit to intercept and kill a leaking well. Full text
BJ Services Company recently completed a major subsea pipeline precommissioning operation for Saipem S.A. in Nigeria on the Akpo development, one of the largest deepwater developments ever undertaken. The Akpo field lies in the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 130 Block approximately 124 miles (200 km) south of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, with water depths of 3,936 ft to 4,593 ft (1200 m to 1400 m.) Full text
Eni has started production from its Longhorn gas field located in the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi Canyon Blocks 502/546, 60 miles off the Louisiana coast. The Longhorn project achieved its first production in just over 3 years from the initial exploration discovery made in July 2006, and was completed in less than 2 years from the sanction. Full text
Work on a development solution for the Luva find, which lies in 1,300 metres of water in the Norwegian Sea and 300 kilometres from land, is to be continued by operator StatoilHydro. Following the completion of a feasibility study, the licensees have resolved to spend almost two years considering possible approaches to bringing the discovery on stream. Full text
Today TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company (TGS) confirmed the start up of its next phase of regional multi-client 3D seismic acquisition in offshore Liberia. The new two-thousand square kilometer 3D program expands the existing 9,000 square kilometers of 3D coverage that TGS initiated in late 2008. The latest Liberia phase will be recorded with long offset acquisition and will incorporate state of the art Prestack Time and PreStack Depth data processing. Full text
BJ Services Company announced that it has successfully installed the first InjectSafe™ chemical injection system with DynaCoil™ capillary injection strings offshore in two wells in Europe. Installation of the InjectSafe and DynaCoil systems allowed BJ to inject foaming agent directly downhole through the capillary string, without compromising the integrity of the surface-controlled subsurface safety valve (SCSSV). Full text
InterMoor Inc., an Acteon company, has completed its sixth job in the Gulf of Mexico using its recently enhanced Scimitar Abrasive Cutting Tool. InterMoor’s Scimitar Abrasive Cutting Tool is the only tool of its kind where the abrasive is introduced at the cutting head versus a slurry mix (abrasive mixed at the high pressure pump). It has had a 100 percent success rate. Full text
Deep Down, Inc., a leading offshore service and technology company providing innovative subsea solutions for the world's energy and offshore industry, today announced an approximate $1million order for the manufacture of 70 metric tons of buoyancy products for a major project in the Gulf of Mexico, with delivery slated for early 4th quarter 2009. Full text