RTS Acquires Scottish ROV Robotics and Tooling Specialist
part of RTS’s ongoing expansion plans and further strengthens the company’s position as a provider of subsea equipment and services.With the acquisition, RTS continues to invest in innovation and the development of a new tooling workshops with a significant increase in its fleet of subsea rental tools and robotic arms.As part of the integration, J1W will formally relocate to the new RTS’ facilities in Aberdeen, where they will continue to serve clients with the same commitment to quality and innovation.“J1W is excited to be joining RTS and moving forward together as one team. RTS
Subsea Robots in the Splash Zone
of aging platforms and subsea structures require IMR that’s too costly, complex or hazardous for divers or remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs.As he walks us through Dora II, the original name of the U-boat pen, OceanTech CEO, Berndt Schjetne, points to corners of the building stashed with rental tools custom-built for a range of past clients: a lift palette for the serpentine ROV, Eelume; a large splash-zone tool with its own crane for immersing probes into a platform jacket’s wave-lashed splashzone. “We use it as a kind of subsea workshop,” Schjetne says among the mostly
Aquaterra Energy Opens Australia Office
in time zone and reduce delivery time for future orders.The office will open at end of May 2019 and provide the full Aquaterra Energy product and service offering, which includes the company’s modular platform, Sea Swift, Subsea and Surface Riser Systems, Riser and Conductor Analysis and its rental tools and equipment service, Aquaterra Express
Interventek Secures $1.3m Order from PRT Offshore
Interventek Subsea Engineering has secured recent orders in excess of £1 million ($1.3 million) for itsRevolution in-riser shear and seal safety valve.The orders represent repeat business, from Louisiana based Professional Rental Tools LLC (PRT Offshore) to support well completion and intervention operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Interventek will supply its 6.375” 15,000psi working pressure valves to be included in PRT Offshore’s Subsea Safety System.PRT Offshore’s president, Patrick Placer, said, “We have serious ambitions to develop our capability in the subsea
Gulfstream Services: Billy Marcel Promoted
. (GSI) names Billy Marcel as Manager of Global Operations – Decommissioning Services Division. US-based Gulfstream Services, Inc. is a global corporation focused on developing high pressure equipment solutions for the international oil and gas industry. GSI has four divisions – rental tools, wireline, cementing assembly and decommissioning – in four strategic oil and gas hubs. Gulfstream Services President Mike Mir said that, based in Houma, La., Marcel will be responsible for the daily supervision of personnel and products as well as the long term growth strategy for
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