Op/Ed: Connecting to the Future of Offshore
120 miles out at sea, 6,000-horsepower devices lift drilling equipment weighing up to 3 million pounds out of holes lying 10,000 feet beneath the water. Keeping such sea monsters in good working order, often for years at a time, is no mean feat. Oil companies spend between $300,000 and $800,000 per day on each vessel drilling offshore. Any failures can result in losses that run into hundreds of thousands of dollars per day.With such high costs and massive market pressures, including volatile oil prices, increasing competition and operations in complex environments, offshore companies are seeking new
GE Interested in German Offshore Wind, Eastern Europe
and operate power from wind and solar energy and integrate it with thermal energy, where GE's wide portfolio will come into play, he said. GE completed its purchase in November of Alstom's energy business, announced 18 months earlier, and merged it with its power and water unit and renamed it GE Power. Renewable energy accounted for $6.3 billion, or 5 percent, of GE's sales in 2015, down from $6.4 billion a year earlier. The company derives 14 percent of its total revenues in Europe, but does not break them out on a country-by-country basis. "Energy is central
SapuraKencana GE Oil & Gas Services Bags PETRONAS FLNG Contract
SapuraKencana GE Oil & Gas Services Sdn Bhd (SKGE), a joint venture between SapuraKencana Services Sdn Bhd and GE Power Systems (M) Sdn Bhd, has been awarded a Long Term Service Agreement by Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) Floating LNG1 (L) Ltd. (PFLNG) to provide maintenance services for PETRONAS’ two forthcoming floating LNG vessels. A Contract Exchange ceremony for the award was held in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 24 March 2016 between PFLNG and SKGE. Under the agreement, SKGE will provide PETRONAS with complete maintenance services for their fleet of twelve gas turbines
GE to Power, Propel Indian Diesel-Electric Research Ship
research platform vessel to be built by Bharati Shipyard, based in Mumbai. The Class XII merchant vessel will host scientists from various Indian government scientific laboratories. It will be used to carry out multipurpose research along the coastal sea belt of India. Bharati has chosen GE Power Conversion, with its extensive experience and understanding of the global marine industry, to supply the power and propulsion system for the ship. This will be the first diesel-electric ship built in India to incorporate medium-voltage equipment, an area in which GE already has a strong position
HOS Orders MPSVs
. It will feature a 250-ton crane provided by Cargotech, and will be powered by four Caterpillar Model 3516C Tier 3 IMO II Marine variable speed diesel propulsion generator sets rated at 2250 kW each. The propulsion drives and thrusters are being provided by Schottel. GE Power Conversion is the vendor for the integrated electrical system, power management, vessel control, DP-2 systems, machinery alarms, power and propulsion systems. Marine Interior Systems has been selected for the joiner work and Marine Aluminum will be providing the helideck system rated for a Sikorsky
Leevac Wins HOS Shipbuilding Contract
vessels will be outfitted with a 250 ton crane provided by Cargotech, and will be powered by four Caterpillar Model 3516C Tier 3 IMO II Marine variable speed diesel propulsion generator sets rated at 2250 kW each. The propulsion drives and thrusters are being provided by Schottel. GE Power Conversion is the vendor for the integrated electrical system, power management, vessel control, DP-2 systems, machinery alarms, power and propulsion systems. Marine Interior Systems has been selected for the joiner work and Marine Aluminum will be providing the helideck system rated for a Sikorsky
GE Spotlights Hi-tech Portfolio at OTC 2013
to control a deepwater blowout preventer, which is used to rapidly seal an oil well in an emergency. The technology incorporates for the first time GE’s Mark™ Vle hardware and Proficy™ software tools—the same proven control systems that have been deployed in a wide range of GE power generation applications worldwide, such as on GE’s advanced fleet of wind and gas turbines. GE Oil & Gas also announced the first application of its latest SeaSmart Offshore Package turbine solution with Statoil. It’s designed to power offshore oil rigs but with a substantially
GE to Supply Turbomachinery to Statoil
up to 10 years and the services agreement includes extension options for up to 25 years. GE’s manufacturing facilities in Florence and Massa, Italy, will manufacture the compressor equipment and also handle the packaging of the LM6000 and LM2500 family aeroderivative gas turbines supplied by GE Power & Water’s plant in Cincinnati, Ohio. Statoil and GE Oil & Gas' cooperation dates back to the 1970s with the supply of compressors for the Statfjord platform in the North Sea. In addition to signing their latest frame agreements, GE and Statoil recently signed a technology cooperation
New Dynamic Positioning System from GE
;As the sophistication and complexity of DP systems has evolved, it has led to the risk that DP operators may have become preoccupied with managing the computer rather than on managing the primary task of controlling the ship, its position, heading and course,” said Paul English, marine leader of GE Power Conversion. With GE’s new system, we are giving DP back to the operator. We are now taking DP control out of the engineering world and putting it back into the marine world. We are turning it back into a nautical instrument. In the future, the DP operator will be able to focus on his real
February 2024
