Technip Umbilical Systems provide subsea umbilical solutions to the oil and gas industry and are currently expanding their plant in Newcastle, UK to house the largest steel tube umbilical machinery in the world. Technip Umbilical Systems, comprises of DUCO Ltd in the UK, DUCO Inc in Houston, Angoflex in Angola and Asiaflex in Malaysia. Subsea [...]
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has received a subsea equipment order from ExxonMobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) for its Julia development. The Julia field is located in the Gulf of Mexico Walker Ridge area in approximately 7,000 feet (2,100 meter) water depth. FMC Technologies’ scope of supply includes six subsea trees, a manifold and associated tie-in [...]
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Rolls-Royce Plc has signed a contract to deliver drillship propulsion systems to the world’s largest drilling company Transocean. This latest contract marks the 100th drillship to feature Rolls-Royce propulsion equipment. In recent months Rolls-Royce has won orders to supply propulsion systems for seven new drillships totaling close to £100 million, including options, from a variety [...]
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Measurement and Control business today announced two innovative condition monitoring and sensing solutions for the subsea sector: the Acoustic Leak Detection System and the Subsea Multi-Domain Condition Monitoring System. Representing the first products resulting from GE’s acquisition of Naxys in 2012, these solutions allow oil and gas operators to monitor the integrity of their subsea [...]
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Kongsberg Evotec AS, a Kongsberg Maritime company, will provide the complete back deck solution for handling of up to 20 streamers simultaneously aboard a GC Rieber owned new-build seismic exploration vessel, awarded by builder Kleven. The ST324XT designed by Skipsteknisk in Ålesund, will be built at Kleven’s shipyard Myklebust Verft in Sande, Norway, and will [...]
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has awarded KONGSBERG (KOG) owned company Kongsberg Maritime contracts of more than 50 MUSD for technical systems delivery to two new Seismic survey vessels ordered by Petroleum Geo Services (PGS). The scope of supply covers integrated navigation systems, Dynamic Positioning (DP) and thruster systems, and extensive back-deck handling systems for PGS [...]
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Xtera Communications, Inc., a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, today announced the launch of a next-generation optical repeater for subsea cable systems. This enhances Xtera’s well-established portfolio of solutions for subsea cable systems, putting Xtera in a position to offer a range of elements on a full turnkey basis that will allow service [...]
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Forum Subsea Rentals, the Aberdeen based equipment rental specialist have made a further significant investment in inertial navigation technology from supplier iXBlue. This latest investment makes Forum Subsea Rentals one of the world’s largest stockists of iXBlue products. The equipment is due to be utilised for ROV positioning in survey and construction support applications on [...]
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A working meeting between Alexey Miller Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Alexander Khoroshavin, Governor of the Sakhalin Region took place in Saint Petersburg. It was noted that Gazprom was going to start natural gas production in 2013 from the Kirinskoye gas and condensate field under the Sakhalin III project. For the first time [...]
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In the last 12 months GE has won contracts valued at more than $600 million to provide propulsion systems with customers leading the pre-salt oilfield expansion off Brazil’s east coast. GE’s systems will power, propel, navigate, position and control drillships, and also power and control the drilling process itself. Today GE is in the process [...]
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