Last Friday “Vestland Mira”, owned by the shipping company Vestland Offshore, was named in Balestrand in the Norwegian county of Sogn and Fjordane. Only seven minutes after the naming ceremony, the Havyard-designed vessel “Vestland Mira”, went straight into work on a contract in The North Sea. “We have started on a contract with SGS, a [...]
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DNO International ASA (“DNO International”), the Norwegian oil and gas company, announced today that it has restarted production from the West Bukha field in Block 8, offshore Sultanate of Oman, at an estimated daily rate of 10,000 barrels of oil and 25 million cubic feet of gas following a five month shutdown required to locate [...]
A First World War British submarine that executed one of the most daring raids during the war was found 94 years after it was abandoned, The Telegraph reports. HMS E14 was located on the ocean bed in the Dardanelles after a search that began in January. This submarine sailed beneath a minefield and evaded the [...]
Nord Stream completed the process of adapting the control system to integrate the two lines into a single automated twin-pipeline gas transport system. Following the two-week process that included adapting and testing the integrated control system for the twin pipelines, the required certifications were received and valves were re-opened on April 28, resuming the gas [...]
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CNOOC stopped the production at the PY30-1 and HZ21-1 platforms after finding the leak at the Zhuhai terminal in southern China. Outages at two gas platforms may last for weeks following a leak in a subsea pipeline earlier this week, media official from CNOOC stated. An official said: “It shouldn’t take too long to [...]
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The dredger boat, ‘Blue In’, which had anchored in the sea off Sasihitlu coast for conducting dredging activity to facilitate laying… (daijiworld) Source: daijiworld, November 16, 2011
A £42m system designed to carry electricity from wave energy machines off Cornwall to the mainland has yet to be used, a year after installation. The wave hub, 10 miles off Hayle, is designed to allow companies to test their wave energy devices. Only one of the five wave energy companies originally involved still plans [...]
Oil and gas production from Forouzan field is due to witness a remarkable rise once the construction of a pipeline connecting the field to… (zawya) Source: zawya, August 16, 2011;
Since 1989, offshore installations in the English sector of the North Sea have been required by law to install Emergency Shutdown (ESD) valves to isolate the installations from oil and gas pipelines. A Bettis™ valve actuator − specially designed by Emerson Process Management − installed at that time has just been decommissioned after 20 [...]
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Production on the Njord platform was shut down on April 24 as a result of operational problems with gaskets in a gas export compressor. Later the same day, during work to resume production, a gas leak was discovered in one of the risers. All production on Njord was immediately shut down and will remain shut [...]
