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Baker Hughes Wins Subsea Deal from Apache

Baker Hughes said, “We are pleased to continue our long-standing partnership with Apache in the North Sea, to support their ongoing and future development campaigns, and remain a strategic partner to optimize their efficiency and production results.”The equipment and service will support Apache North Sea’s exploration and development activities in the North Sea for the next three years. Project management and engineering will take place in Aberdeen, Scotland while all manufacturing will be conducted in Montrose, Scotland, at Baker Hughes’s Global Center of Excellence, which opened

Wood Group Secures Apache's Subsea MSA Deal Extention

Wood Group has been awarded an extension to its master service agreement (MSA) contract with Apache Corporation in the North Sea. Wood Group will continue to deliver subsea engineering and consultancy services, in support of Apache's routine operation and maintenance works, as well as detailed engineering for future subsea developments across its entire North Sea portfolio; the Forties and Beryl areas, Scottish Area Gas Evacuation (SAGE) pipeline and the onshore SAGE facility at St Fergus. Effective immediately, the contract includes two one-year extension options. Wood Group has held this service

TWMA Bags £1.5 mln North Sea Contract with Apache

Global integrated drilling waste management and environmental services firm, TWMA, has recently secured a £1.5 million contract with Apache on the WilPhoenix platform in the North Sea Beryl field.   As part of TWMA’s fully integrated waste management solution, the one year (with one year option) contract will utilise the company’s award-winning TCC RotoMill® for offshore processing and EfficientC® for cuttings transfer and distribution.   Chief operating officer, Neil Potter, said: “We have built a strong relationship with Apache over the last five years

Bibby Wins Apache North Sea Contract

Bibby Offshore, a subsea services provider to the oil and gas industry, has announced a contract win with Apache North Sea Ltd to provide subsea construction, ROV and diving services at the largest oil field in the North Sea. The contract, due to begin this month, will utilise Bibby Offshore’s multi-role diving support vessel the Bibby Topaz, equipped with an inspection class ROV. The project, which involves well tie-ins and spool change-out at the Aviat and Bacchus locations, along with the associated pre-commissioning works, will be conducted to tie back the subsea wells to the Forties

Subsea 7 Bags Apache Contract Off UK

Subsea 7 S.A. (Oslo Børs: SUBC, ADR: SUBCY) was yesterday awarded a sizeable engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning (EPIC) contract by Apache North Sea, as part of the Callater field development, located 335km north east of Aberdeen. The contract work scope covers the project management, engineering, procurement, construction and installation of a 4 km, 45” Pipeline Bundle system consisting of production lines, and power and supply services. It also includes the installation of a 13km electro-control umbilical, associated structures, field testing and pre-commissioning

New Appointments for Subsea UK Board

body’s Annual General Meeting.   Following an unprecedented number of member nominations, two new Board members were appointed and seven members reelected. Cameron Mitchell, technical disciplines assurance manager for Shell UK, and Mark Richardson, projects group manager for Apache North Sea, join the board of Subsea UK Bill Edgar, chairman of Subsea UK, said: “Our members’ willingness to engage with each other to ensure the sector’s future expansion is vital if we are to respond to the market challenges and add real value going forward. “Cameron and

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DNV GL Approves Pipeline Isolation Tools

adaptation by the end-user. To date, UK-headquartered STATS have completed more than 200 Tecno Plug deployments, including recent isolations in Oman, Malaysia, Canada and the UK Central North Sea – with high profile projects including the isolation of the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) for Apache North Sea Ltd. STATS patented BISEP provides high pressure intervention and isolation through a single hot tap penetration. Since its development less than 10 years ago, STATS has deployed over 60 hot tapped isolations, enabling maintenance work to be carried out safely and efficiently while meeting

N.Sea Forties Echo Accident Investigation Ongoing

An investigation into the extent of any damage caused to the Forties Echo platform in the North Sea is still underway, a spokesman for operator Apache North Sea said on Tuesday.   The platform, which is in the British section of the North Sea, was struck by a supply vessel on Monday morning, triggering emergency procedures including a shutdown of production.   The spokesman was unable to give a restart date for production, saying it would depend on the outcome of the investigation. "The team is trying to determine exactly what happened," he said.   The rest of the

CAN inspectors carry out close visual and ultrasonic inspections as part of a conductor survey.

CAN-DO Approach Leads to £200m of Contract Renewals

in business, will lead to the safe-guarding of 150 jobs. The Aberdeen headquartered business has been awarded a five year contract for the provision of asset integrity services to ConocoPhillips and a three year contract for the provision of topsides inspection and integrity support services with Apache in the North Sea. Both contracts have options to extend for up to a further four years. Following a competitive tender, ConocoPhillips has renewed its contract with CAN, held since 1995, for a full range of non-destructive testing and inspection services. An important addition to this renewal

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