Drilling in HoustonInternational oil services group Aker Solutions is about to open North America's most advanced drilling equipment simulator in Houston, Texas. The simulator will be available to rig operators with the objective of making offshore drilling operations safer and more cost effective. Full text |
McDermott and Trelleborg develop innovative new clamp to improve diver safety
Osiris Marine invest £380k in new technology
Jee completes carbon capture and storage conceptual design for major pipeline transporter
UK debut for Open Hole Roller Bogie technology
C-Tecnics introduce mini camera
Savante launch full service subsea laser scanning, measurement and inspection services
A physical parameter measurement cable for subsea application
New Product to Extend Life of Subsea Assets
Tentec takes the Complexity out of Bolt Tightening Calculations
Schlumberger Introduces New Multipole Sonic-While-Drilling Service
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Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies Inc. (KOGT) has been awarded a contract by Petrobras America Inc. (PAI), a subsidiary of Petrobras, to provide a Digital Oil Field Tool (DOFT) for its first deepwater production facility in the Gulf of Mexico. Full text
MCS and Aberdeen-headquartered Qserv have carried out an innovative pipeline integrity service on the Mutineer and Exeter fields, offshore Western Australia, for Australian oil and gas major, Santos. Following a study commissioned by UKOOA in 2001 on the causes of flexible pipe damage, MCS identified that annulus testing of flexible pipes was a valuable measure in monitoring integrity. Full text
General Robotics Limited (GRL), is introducing Version 4.0 of it ROVolution ROV pilot training and mission planning simulator that uses real-time dynamic and hydrodynamic modelling to give pilots a highly realistic experience of subsea operations. ROVolution now includes a comprehensive Pilot Training Metrics module to improve the measurability and consistency of pilot training and assessment. Full text
CSIP, part of the ECA Group, will launch the market’s first 5 Function Electric Underwater Manipulator Arm, ARM 5E, at Ocean Business stand H2. The all-electric arm has been designed to compete with hydraulic arms on the market but offers several advantages. Full text
TTS is taking anchor handling to the next level with the introduction of Active Heave Compensation (AHC) on their winches. The product is developed by TTS Offshore Handling Equipment which has a long experience developing winches for both anchor-handling and subsea winches with AHC. Full text
Teledyne RD Instruments (RDI) announced today the release of their new self-contained Explorer Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) for precision littoral underwater navigation applications. Now, in addition to Teledyne RDI’s remote head Explorer, the self-contained configuration offers users Teledyne RDI's proven Broadband technology packed into a single housing for your “power & go” applications. Full text
Hydro Group, a global solutions provider of optical and electrical products in the subsea technology industry, has launched three innovative products to the US market at the Underwater Intervention 2009 exhibition in New Orleans. Full text
AGR Field Operations, with partner Flexlife have successfully performed the world’s first diver less, subsea ultrasonic examination on a number of flexible risers. The combined efforts have resulted in a unique inspection achievement in the North Sea. Full text
NETmc Marine, designers and manufacturer’s of a range of digital video recorders and video overlays for the offshore market, has recently completed a development to interface the serial data string from the Perry Slingsby’s Triton XLS ROV surface computer to its VideoTXT video overlay, thus simplifying the setup of video overlay for that vehicle. Full text
Testing of technology for improved oil recovery (IOR) off Norway has hit a new peak, with projects approved by StatoilHydro last year representing almost 400 million barrels of oil equivalent. A number of the fields operated by the group on the Norwegian continental shelf are already world leaders in terms of their recovery factor. Full text