NOV Names New Chief Technology Officer
Oil and gas equipment and technology provider National Oilwell Varco, has appointed David Reid as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, effective April 17, 2020. Reid has been appointed a successor of Hege Kverneland who will retire after more than two decades with National Oilwell VarcoKverneland joined NOV through the acquisition of Hitec in 1999. Starting in 2001, Kverneland worked as the Company’s Corporate R&D manager until she was promoted to Chief Technology Officer in 2009.Clay Williams, Chairman, President and CEO of National Oilwell Varco, remarked, “I am grateful
M² Subsea Taps Imrie to Lead Sales and Marketing
director. With a career spanning more than 20 years in the global oil and gas industry, Imrie joins M² Subsea from Ampelmann where he was commercial director, based in the Netherlands. Prior to this, he held a number of senior roles with Proserv, Amec, GE Oil & Gas and National Oilwell Varco. His broad industry experience, coupled with his strong commercial track record has seen him develop new and profitable business opportunities throughout his career. As global sales and marketing director, Imrie will spearhead M² Subsea’s drive to expand its international
Partners Aim to Revolutionize Subsea Boosting Pumps
for the JIP, will tell you otherwise. “We think we’ve cracked the code,” said CEO Alexander Fuglesang. “This project has the potential to deliver improvements in all three areas: cost, weight and reliability.” Statoil joins Aker BP, Lundin and National Oilwell Varco in the DEMO2000 JIP. The project aims to bring the Fuglesangs Subsea Omnirise single-phase booster to market by early 2019. “Once we eliminated the single biggest problem with subsea pumps, all the other pieces fell into place,” Fuglesang said. That problem was the mechanical
NOV, GE to Provide Integrated Solutions for FPSOs
to the offshore production market; new FPSO industrial platform enables repeatability and provides greater value to customers through economies of scale; enhanced designs, technology and industrialized supply chain expected to improve the life-cycle economics of offshore development National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NOV) and GE Oil & Gas has agreed to collaborate on delivering integrated solutions for Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels. The agreement brings together the product offerings and engineering capabilities from the two companies to optimize engineering design
Slater joins WFS Technologies as Sales Manager
customers in its use of Seatooth-enabled products to increase production and reduce costs. Prior to joining WFS Slater spent 13 years at Schlumberger in domestic and international managerial positions as the main point of contact. Before Schlumberger, he worked in engineering roles for National Oilwell Varco and Wood Group Engineering. Slater was educated Robert Gordon University where he holds a BSc in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, specializing in Power and Transmission systems, Electronic Drives and Controls
NOV Awards Contract to Pulse for Mooring Line Monitoring
Pulse Structural Monitoring, an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract with National Oilwell Varco (NOV) Arendal in Norway to provide an acoustic mooring line subsea monitoring system to measure mooring line inclination and tension. The contract is for 12 mooring line subsea monitoring sensors and ancillary topside equipment, which have been enhanced to meet specific client requirements. The equipment will be installed in the North Sea. The Pulse system consists of 12 ROV deployable INTEGRIpod acoustic data loggers on the mooring line’s upper section to measure actual
Construction of Mermaid Ausana Begins
performance class tender assist drilling rigs incorporating the latest modern design features, and will be the most advanced tender rigs in the market when they are delivered in 2016. The rigs will each be equipped with a modern drilling package supplied by leading drilling equipment specialist National Oilwell Varco and will feature a larger deck space, bigger cranes, faster rig moves, larger and more living quarter capacity, larger tank storage and offline activity systems. In addition, both rigs will be able to operate in water depths of up to 243 meters with conventional mooring and 914 meters
DNV Helps Take the Strain on Subsea Lifting SWRs
related to system integration, monitoring, condition assessment, inspection, maintenance, lubrication, production, etc. Partners are: Bridon, DMT GmbH & Co. KG, DOF Management, Farstad Shipping AS, GC Rieber Shipping ASA, Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland SE, Huisman Equipment BV, National Oilwell Varco (NOV), Redaelli, Rolls Royce Marine AS, Saipem, Technip UK Limited, TEUFELBERGER Seil Ges.m.b.H. and W. Giertsen Services AS.
MacArtney Completes 40 FPSO Swivel Projects
has gained a track record as a Focal FPSO swivel supplier and provider of specialist engineering support to FPSO operators and FPSO swivel stack, mooring and turret manufacturers across the entire offshore industry. Notable MacArtney FPSO projects include the delivery of swivel solutions to APL/National Oilwell Varco, Framo Engineering and Bluewater. Beyond Focal swivels, the MacArtney scope of FPSO supply includes junction boxes, cables and connectors. According MacArtney Business Development Manager Anders Andersen, "One of the next exciting steps within FPSO swivel development and supply will
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