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Norwegian oil and gas operator Aker BP and software company Cognite have entered into a strategic initiative to explore how robotic systems can be used to make offshore operations safer, more efficient, and more sustainable. Cognite and Aker BP will do several tests using robots and drones on the Aker BP-operated Skarv installation in the... Continue Reading →
Ocean Infinity, a seabed survey and ocean exploration company, has launched of a new pioneering marine technology and data company named Armada. Ocean Infinity said that Armada, with a focus on combining technology and sustainability, would initially add fifteen bespoke designed marine robots to Ocean Infinity’s current fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). According to... Continue Reading →
Mexican operator Grupo R has signed a contract with Shell for the lease of the La Muralla IV drilling rig to operate in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Grupo R said on Tueday that the integrated contract model signed with Shell would provide Shell with the drilling rig, as well as the... Continue Reading →
Dutch FPSO provider SBM Offshore has launched a video of its first completed Fast4Ward FPSO hull arriving in Singapore. As previosuly reported, the hull reached Singapore in mid-January 2019. SBM Offshore said that the Fast4Ward MPF hull had arrived at Keppel in Singapore following its journey of 2,300 nautical miles from the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding and Offshore... Continue Reading →
Increasing activity, led by scaled down, accelerated projects and subsea tiebacks is helping drive an increasing business in the subsea industry. But there’s slim chance of revisiting the boom days of 2013, the Society of Underwater Technology’s annual Global Subsea Market Outlook Business Breakfast heard this morning. Henning Bjørvik, an analyst in the Oilfield Service... Continue Reading →
The swollen number of orders felt in 2019 for floating production, storage and offloading vessels (FPSO) was, it turns out, well above the average number of yearly go-aheads seen in over the past 10 years, a new floater report says. Oil prices and a rush to kickstart industry and national wealth in developing countries appears... Continue Reading →
Jan 30, 2020 With the possibility of postponing to 2021 the auctions under the sharing regime and the surplus Transfer of Rights of the Sépia and Atapu areas, the market's attention is focused on the next auction in the concession model, the 17th Bidding Round of the National Agency Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP),... Continue Reading →
Japan’s MODEC has signed a sales and purchase agreement (SPA) with Equinor to supply a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Bacalhau (formerly Carcará) field offshore Brazil. MODEC was awarded a Pre-Front End Engineering Design (Pre-FEED) contract for the FPSO in December 2018 and has now been selected as the turnkey contractor... Continue Reading →
Dutch shipbuilding company Damen has developed a new concept vessel – the Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) 9020. The vessel has been designed to perform a variety of offshore tasks both at surface level and subsea, Damen said in a statement on Monday. “We were approached by several different operators at the same time, all looking... Continue Reading →
JAN 24, , 2020 The FPSO P-70, which began its journey to Brazil on December 9 last year, is anchored in Guanabara Bay. The FPSO will carry out its activities in the Atapu field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. The unit left the COOEC shipyard in Qingdao, China, where the integration works for the platform... Continue Reading →
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