Aker Solutions Awarded Troll Extension

Aker Solutions wins a Statoil contract to deliver three subsea trees, tubing hangers & a tool package to the Troll field, Norwegian continental shelf. The extension, estimated contract value NOK 250 million, is a call-off from a contract signed with Statoil in February 2012. The spare tubing hangers will be utilized on several parts of the Troll field. The Troll field is the world's biggest subsea development with regards to the number of subsea wells.

Island Offshore Debuts Open Water Coil Tubing

Press release - Island Offshore recently made history when they successfully drilled a pilot hole for Centrica Energy by means of open water coil tubing. This technology has never been utilized in the offshore industry before and proves to be a safer and cheaper alternative to traditional drilling using a rig. MOU Island Constructor was given the assignment to drill a shallow gas pilot hole down to 360 meters below mud line at the BUTCH PL 405-field…

OI 2014 Technology Preview

This month the global subsea community gathers in London for Oceanology International 2014. MTR examines new technology set to debut. 2G Engineering offers a full range of electric subsea rotary and linear actuator systems. These units are unique in that they are fully self contained requiring nothing more than power and a digital or analog control signal to operate. 2G is excited to introduce two new products, it’s Mini Rotary Actuator with an output rotational force of 1000 ft. lbs.

EIVA Launches Dredging Software

This week sees the launch of the EIVA NaviSuite Uca software bundle, a plug and play solution for integration with the Trimble GCS900 Grade Control System for excavators. EIVA NaviSuite Uca is the result of collaboration between EIVA and Trimble, established to enable Trimble customers to choose EIVA software for use with the Trimble GCS900 Grade Control System for excavators. Using EIVA software with…

Bathymetric Solutions on Display at OI China

Teledyne Optech announced that Senior Scientist Dr. Viktor Feygels will present on performing lidar bathymetry in difficult water conditions with the Optech CZMIL Nova at the Oceanology International China (OI China) 2015 Conference and Exhibition, which takes place November 3-5 in Shanghai. The presentation, titled “Airborne Lidar Surveys in the China Region: Society Requests and Prospective Results”…

Aker Wins Statoil Subsea Trees Contract

Aker Solutions to supply Statoil with subsea trees & control modules for the Visund Field on the Norwegian continental shelf. The contract is for the supply of five subsea trees and eleven control modules, and is valued at aproximately NOK 300-million. Visund is an oil and gas field located 22 kilometres north-east of the Gullfaks field in the Tampen area of the Norwegian North Sea. The field came on stream in the spring of 1999.

GOM Mission for New Research Ship

Schmidt Ocean Institute's 'R/V Falkor' to advance studies of artificial reefs, red tides & uncharted regions of the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists with the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies (HRI) and the College of Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will study the oceanography of the South Texas coast, including influences on the distribution of red tide while aboard the R/V Falkor later this month.

iXBlue Launches New GAPS USBL

iXBlue, a provider of navigation, positioning and mapping solutions, has launched the fourth-generation GAPS, which constitutes a significant enhancement to its USBL acoustic positioning product family. From its first generation introduced in 2004, GAPS has established an excellent record in a variety of critical applications and has won over users who value performance combined with high reliability. GAPS has increasingly provided the industry benchmark for USBLs.

Teledyne RD Instruments Extends DVL Line

Teledyne RD Instruments, a manufacturer of acoustic doppler products, announced the launch of two new doppler velocity Log (DVL) product lines to round-out the company’s expanding underwater navigation capabilities. Building on the company’s industry standard Workhorse Navigator and Explorer line of DVLs, the Pathfinder and Pioneer products represent the latest in its next generation technology. The Pathfinder DVL utilizes a piston head transducer…

iXBlue Announces RAMSES Launch at OI

iXBlue launched the next-generation medium-frequency RAMSES, a long synthetic baseline positioning system for ROV/AUV navigation, offshore oil and gas support, metrology and other demanding subsea applications. The system can be tightly coupled with iXBlue inertial navigation systems (INS) and delivers extreme precision and robustness in challenging acoustic operational environments. Available in MF…

Sercel Sells High-res Streamer System to AWI Research Institute

CGG announced that Sercel has sold one of its new Sentinel HR high-resolution solid streamers to the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), a German research foundation specializing in polar and marine research in the Arctic and Antarctic. AWI will use the Sentinel HR on research projects it is conducting to record critical data about the relationship between geological activity and ecosystems in order to gain a better understanding of the Earth’s system.

Kraken Awarded $1.5 Mln Defense Deal

Kraken Sonar Inc. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Kraken Sonar Systems Inc. has received a $1.5 million contract from an undisclosed major international defense contractor for a KATFISH sonar system. Along with spare parts and support, the initial order could exceed $2 million. The agreement includes multiple stages, starting with a first phase for the manufacture and supply of Kraken's KATFISH system. The customer will make an advance payment on the contract in 2015.

FRV for Bangladesh

IMC’s latest fisheries research and survey vessel design was built in Malaysia for the Bangladesh Department of Fisheries. RV Meen Shandhani arrived in Bangladesh in June after completing extensive sea and fishing trials and its delivery voyage. The Australian consultancy’s naval architects and engineers drew on a wealth of relevant experience, data and expertise when developing the vessel’s design.

Kongsberg Delivers Simulator Upgrades

The Simsea AS maritime training center in Haugesund, Norway, has chosen Kongsberg Maritime to support the extension of its offshore simulation facilities with new simulators and significant upgrades to existing simulators. Kongsberg Maritime has also recently delivered a new rig simulator model at Simsea, based on the Floatel Superior accommodation unit, which is currently in operation in the North Sea.

SPE Aberdeen: Tackling the Offshore Design Challenge

An engineering expert is set to talk at a Society of Petroleum Engineers’ (SPE) Aberdeen Section presentation this month, discussing the challenges associated with the analysis and design of offshore engineering equipment. Offshore marine equipment can be physically complex, expensive, safety critical and required to operate in harsh environments. This means that regulations for design and manufacturing processes can differ based on a number of factors…

UKHO Conducts Seabed Mapping in Tonga to Support Blue Economy

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has chartered a motor launch to survey the waters in the Kingdom of Tonga as part of the Commonwealth Marine Economies Program. State-of-the-art multibeam sonar equipment will be used to map key areas of the seabed in the approaches to the harbor of the capital, Nuku'alofa, on the main island of Tongatapu. This information will be used to update nautical charts and publications…

Ezra Wins $110m Deepwater Brazilian Contract

Ezra Holdings Limited today announced that the Group’s wholly owned subsidiary London Marine Consultants (LMC), Ezra’s Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Turret Design outfit has been awarded a contract by Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard of Singapore, to supply an external turret mooring system for the Libra field’s Extended Well Test (EWT) FPSO vessel. The Libra oil field is a large…

Schlumberger, Ikon in Software Development Deal

Schlumberger and Ikon Science announced today an agreement to further develop the existing quantitative seismic interpretation capability in the Petrel* E&P software platform. The collaboration will make high-value seismic workflows fully available to customers and allow easy access to advanced reservoir characterization tools. Bringing key capabilities of the RokDoc software platform, developed by Ikon Science…

FOG Technology for High Latitude Navigation

Fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) technology occupies a unique place in the navigation history, according to navigation, positioning and imaging solutions provider iXBlue, who says FOG continues to break performance boundaries where other gyroscope technologies have reached their limits. FOG and inertial navigation systems (INS) technologies perform even in extreme applications such as mission critical space operation, nuclear submarine stealth operation and high latitude (North) navigation.

Plough Clears 33 Routes on DONG Energy Wind Farm

Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has completed a major boulder clearance and seabed preparation campaign on behalf of DONG Energy. The subsea engineering specialist ESS said it has cleared almost 50,000 boulders and other obstructions from 33 routes spread over a distance of 40 kilometers at the Westermost Rough wind farm, located eight kilometers off the Yorkshire coast. ESS deployed its multifunctional SCAR seabed plough and…