Navantia UK Secures Subsea Structures Manufacturing Order from McDermott
Navantia UK, a subsidiary of Spanish shipbuilder Navantia, has secured a contract from McDermott Trinidad for the manufacture of subsea structures for a project in Trinidad and Tobago.The year-long contract will see the company deliver critical subsea components from its Arnish facility, located on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.This new agreement builds upon the facility's growing reputation in the subsea sector and will support continued workforce expansion at the site."We are delighted to partner with McDermott Trinidad on this important project. By securing international
Trinidad and Venezuela Set to Launch Seismic Survey at Joint Gas Fields
Seismic work at offshore gas fields shared by Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago is expected to start in the coming days, the Caribbean country's energy minister Stuart Young said on Friday on social media.Venezuela in July issued a 20-year license allowing the development of its side of the reservoir, the Cocuina field. The U.S. earlier this year also authorized the project, to be developed by Britain's BP and Trinidad's National Gas Company.The Cocuina and Manakin fields, whose Venezuelan portion belongs to the idled offshore gas project Plataforma Deltana, has 1 trillion cubic feet of
Argeo Lands Woodside Energy’s Calypso Survey
Norwegian offshore services company Argeo has signed a contract with Woodside Energy to conduct a geophysical survey for the deepwater Calypso field in Trinidad and Tobago.The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) survey work will be carried out by Argeo Searcher vessel, starting in the third quarter of 2024.The project will occupy the vessel for approximately 60 days, not including any additional work.The Argeo Searcher is a DP II vessel, equipped with modern diesel electric propulsion. The vessel has significant capacities with 200 days endurance, accommodation of 65 persons and fully certified
CGG Pens Multi-Client Reimaging Deal with Trinidad and Tobago
France-based marine seismic data firm CGG has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries of Trinidad and Tobago to reimage vintage 3D seismic data from four deepwater offshore blocks.CGG’s work scope will cover blocks 25a, 25b, 26, and 27 offshore Trinidad.Located in the country’s deep waters, the project has received firm industry commitments and will deliver early products in late February 2024.BP, Shell Reach Agreement with Trinidad to Explore Deepwater BlocksThe agreement also includes the generation of well and geological products that will be delivered
First North Brazil Current Ring of 2022 Forms Offshore Suriname and French Guiana
February) when the NBC transport is at its strongest and deepest. In contrast, the rings shed in the spring and summer months (March to September) tend to be weaker and shallower and disintegrate quickly, diminishing to a moderately elevated west-northwestward flow that gradually migrates toward Trinidad and Tobago. In the absence of a ring, a weak northwestward flow is typically observed.Figure 3: Data collected from a rig-mounted current meter as an NBC ring overran an oil and gas site offshore Guyana. Image courtesy Woods Hole Grou
UN Deep-sea Mining Rules Unlikely to be Completed by 2023 Deadline, Latam Countries Say
able to finalize and adopt the required regulations within the two-year period, adding that delegations are far from reaching agreement on key issues.The Latin American and Caribbean Group includes Argentina, the Bahamas, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago.The African Group in July also criticized the fast-tracking of negotiations, saying the task of agreeing on regulations by mid-2023 is “seemingly insurmountable”.Deep-sea mining involves sucking up potato-sized rocks rich in cobalt, nickel and other battery metals from the Pacific
Fugro's Positioning Services for Petronas' Suriname Drilling Program
;s semi-submersible rig and support vessels."Work on the contract has already begun and executing these services in a restrictive Covid-19 environment has so far posed multiple operational challenges for Fugro," Fugro said.As an example, the Dutch company explained, both Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago’s international borders were closed ahead of the program’s first rig move in October 2020 but Fugro’s local staff worked with regulators to overcome these hurdles and deliver the surface and subsurface positioning services that PSEPBV needed to safely and accurately position
Ashtead Technology Enters Trinidad & Tobago Partnership
Subsea equipment solutions specialist Ashtead Technology has entered into a partnership with Trinidad and Tobago-based Reliance Subsea Services Limited.The US-arm of Aberdeen-based Ashtead will provide subsea survey and ROV equipment through Reliance across the CARICOM region to support offshore drilling, field development, IRM, and decommissioning projects. Ashtead Technology dispatched the first of several equipment shipments to Reliance earlier this month.Steven Thrasher, Regional Vice President at Ashtead Technology, said: “The appointment of Reliance Subsea as our business partner is an
Acteon Firms Take Part in Platform Installation Off Trinidad
Acteon Group subsidiaries MENCK and LM Handling have won a contract to support piling operations for a platform installation off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago. Subsea services firm Acteon said that the Trinidad and Tobago project would draw on equipment and services provided out of MENCK’s US-based rental fleet."MENCK’s MHU 550S and an MHU 800S hammers are joined by LM Handling’s internal lifting tools.Eskild Foeh, MENCK Sales Manager, commented “This is another fantastic opportunity for both MENCK and LMH to showcase our joint capabilities and the first-class
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