Category archives for: Equipment & Technology

Xtera Tests 100G Interface Cards on Transatlantic Subsea Cable System (VIDEO)

Xtera Tests 100G Interface Cards on Transatlantic Subsea Cable System (VIDEO)

Xtera pioneered the upgrade market in 2001 and is constantly testing new technologies on subsea cable systems of different types. This video is about the successful testing of 100G coherent interface cards on a transatlantic subsea cable system. Xtera Communications, Inc. (Xtera) specializes in network infrastructure that delivers maximum capacity, reach and value. Providing solutions [...]

Dolphin Geophysical Increases Loan Facility to Finance Seismic Equipment

Dolphin Geophysical Increases Loan Facility to Finance Seismic Equipment

Dolphin Geophysical AS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dolphin Group ASA, has today entered into a term sheet with DNB Bank ASA and Sparebank 1 SR Bank ASA, which contemplates an increase of Dolphin’s existing loan facility with the lenders. The increased amount under the facility will be employed for financing seismic equipment for the vessels [...]

RenewableUK Hails World’s Largest Wave Farm and Funding Boost

RenewableUK Hails World’s Largest Wave Farm and Funding Boost

RenewableUK has welcomed two key announcements in the wave energy sector which will help to spur growth and maintain the UK’s global lead in this innovative and dynamic field. The Edinburgh-based company Aquamarine Power has secured full consent to build the largest commercial wave energy array in the world. The 40-megawatt wave farm, off the [...]

USA: FMC Technologies Secures Subsea Equipment Order for Shell’s Stones Field

USA: FMC Technologies Secures Subsea Equipment Order for Shell’s Stones Field

FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has received an order from Shell for the supply of subsea equipment to support the Stones field development. Stones is an ultra deepwater project located in the Walker Ridge area of the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 200 miles (322 kilometers) off the Louisiana coast in approximately 9,600 feet (2,926 [...]

Carbon Trust Ensures Development of New 66kV Cables (UK)

Carbon Trust Ensures Development of New 66kV Cables (UK)

The Carbon Trust, as part of its Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), has launched a new competition to fast track the development of new 66kV cables to be used by the offshore wind industry. The goal is to ensure that new 66kV cables are developed in time to be used on Round 3 projects in the [...]

VIDEO: Nautronix Enhances NASNet for Subsea Positioning Requirements

VIDEO: Nautronix Enhances NASNet for Subsea Positioning Requirements

Since the initial launch of NASNet®, Nautronix has continued to invest in enhancing the system with a further £2M spend in completing the MKII Developments, with additional features added. Enhanced Buoy tracking functionINS IntegrationNASNet® DPR / FPR – for dynamically positioned vessels and FPSO riser monitoringUpgraded USER interface – ICISVTrx (NASNet® ROV Transceiver) – Simple [...]

SME to Build and Test New Generation Tidal Platform (UK)

SME to Build and Test New Generation Tidal Platform (UK)

Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) announced that it is to build and test a new generation systems integration platform aimed at enabling tidal energy to become a cost effective green source of energy. The technology development company will be using its unique PLAT-O platform, together with STG 50 tidal turbines it is purchasing from propulsion experts [...]

Wärtsilä to Supply DEH System for Chevron’s Lianzi Field Off Africa

Wärtsilä to Supply DEH System for Chevron’s Lianzi Field Off Africa

Wärtsilä is the market leader in topside direct electrical heating systems being involved in 85 per cent of all contracted systems to date. This latest valuable order for Wärtsilä DEH technology provides further evidence of the benefits of the proven technology for West African installations. On the Norwegian continental shelf it has been used already [...]

Superior Energy Gets Certificate of Acceptance for Arctic Containment System

Superior Energy Gets Certificate of Acceptance for Arctic Containment System

Superior Energy-Marine Technical Services (MTS), a division of Superior Energy Services, Inc., received its first Certificate of Acceptance from a client for the use of their Arctic Containment System (ACS). Designed, built, owned and operated by MTS, the ACS was developed to act as a containment system for collection and control of potential environmental hazards [...]

Plexus Receives Purchase Order from GDF Suez E&P UK

Plexus Receives Purchase Order from GDF Suez E&P UK

Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, announces that it has received a purchase order worth circa £1 million from Gaz de France Suez E&P UK Ltd (‘GDF’), a leading oil and gas company, to supply its POS-GRIP High [...]







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