Veolia Water Technologies said its VWS Westgarth subsidiary has been awarded a multimillion dollar contract by SBM Offshore for the supply of a seawater treatment package for the Liza Unity floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO), to be deployed in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana. The award is for the design and procurement of... Continue Reading →
Prysmian Rolls Out Smart Cable Drums
Prysmian in collaboration with its innovation hub Corporate Hangar, is poised to launch Alesea, an IoT solution that provides virtual assistance for cable drum management. Alesea is the first start-up to enter the runway phase at Corporate Hangar, the innovation hub co-founded by Prysmian Group in 2017 to support and develop high value projects of... Continue Reading →
Production 4.0 – Weatherford
As the oil and gas industry increasingly automates functions, one service company has focused on changing the focus from dumb iron to the cloud. Weatherford’s vision is to take its range of production tools and technologies to the next level by bringing them together with the basics of Industry 4.0, which relies on automation and... Continue Reading →
Saipem signs pioneering contract to deliver Hydrone-based technology to Equinor
San Donato Milanese (MI), October 2, 2019 - Saipem has signed a subsea service contract with Equinor, worth approximately 40 million Euro, which entails the use of Saipem’s Underwater Intervention Drone (UID) Hydrone-R and the all-electric Work Class ROV Hydrone-W in the Njord Field development, offshore Norway. This agreement is the first ever worldwide service... Continue Reading →
Transocean deploys hybrid energy storage on floating rig
Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has deployed what is says is the world’s first hybrid energy storage system aboard a floating drilling unit. The system is now operational on the Transocean Spitsbergen rig, engaged in drilling operations at the Snorre field in Norway. Transocean said on Wednesday that its patented hybrid power technology, developed in partnership... Continue Reading →
Equinor awards ‘first ever service contract for subsea drones in oil & gas’
Norway’s Equinor has awarded Italy’s Saipem a subsea service contract which entails using a wireless underwater intervention drone and an ROV on the Njord field located offshore Norway. The contract will make Equinor the first user of technology expected to be completed in 2020, Equinor said on Wednesday. “This is a historic contract in the... Continue Reading →