Deepwater
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May 05, 2020
The Logan A-frame is a heavy weather, work class ROV launching system, designed to move some of the largest, work class ROVs in the market.
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May 04, 2020
The pipeline, one of the key export projects for Russia’s Gazprom PJSC, was just weeks away from completion when U.S. sanctions stopped work last year. There’s a small section in Denmark’s waters still to be completed.
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April 24, 2020
Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc., the rig contractor controlled by Loews Corp., filed for bankruptcy amid an unprecedented crash in crude prices that’s wrecking demand for oil exploration at sea.
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April 21, 2020
A digital twinning and smart data asset management tool from Bureau Veritas can save between 9% and 15% on total decommissioning project costs, research has revealed.
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April 15, 2020
Weatherford International saved an operator 27.5 hours of deepwater rig time with an Integrated Completion Solution it developed to install downhole equipment in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil.
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April 07, 2020
In response to the coronavirus outbreak, offshore operators have stepped up screening and cleaning, lengthened job assignments and subjected workers to isolation periods. Some officials have even gamed out hypothetical scenarios that include shutting down operations if the pandemic spreads.
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March 30, 2020
Scope of work covers maintenance and upgrades to maintain production levels for more than 200 offshore assets.
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March 25, 2020
Fugro and SEA-KIT International will accelerate the development and use of uncrewed vessels, remotely operated from Fugro’s ROCs, to improve safety, efficiency, and reduce the environmental impact on marine activities.
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March 24, 2020
Maersk Drilling has been notified by Tullow Ghana of early termination of its contract for the Maersk Venturer deepwater drillship.
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March 23, 2020
Aker Solutions has entered a master agreement to provide umbilicals for Chevron-operated oil and gas fields in the US Gulf of Mexico.
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March 23, 2020
The test laboratory project is the first of its kind in the world, and its unique approach will identify and open the prospects and possibilities for remote vessel pilotage.
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March 18, 2020
Weatherford announced a success in an ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico operation that saved a major international oil company 14 rig days valued at approximately $14 million.
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March 18, 2020
Tracerco has been awarded a deep-water subsea inspection project to assess the integrity of a new pipelay in the Gulf of Mexico.
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March 05, 2020
Aker BP and Framo have entered a long-term maintenance contract for seawater lift pumps where compensation is directly linked to facility uptime.
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February 28, 2020
Wood is delivering a multi-million-dollar engineering design project for Chevron’s Anchor deepwater development in the Gulf of Mexico.
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February 26, 2020
Shell is pushing ahead on its massive deep-water drilling plan in Mexico, even as it doesn’t foresee production starting under the current government.
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February 25, 2020
Equinor ASA has dropped plans for oil drilling deep in the ocean off Australia’s south coast following a sustained campaign from environmentalists who said the project posed too big a risk to the marine ecosystem.
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February 18, 2020
The agreement will help fast-track innovation and streamline the adoption of applied technologies in areas such as marine robotics, advanced sensing, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems to address the industry’s challenges to improve safety, cost-efficiency and sustainability.
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February 11, 2020
BP has awarded Oceaneering a contract to provide comprehensive riserless light well intervention services offshore Angola in Blocks 18 and 31.
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February 10, 2020
At Baker Hughes' 2020 Annual Meeting in Italy, we spoke with Chuck Chauviere, the company's Vice President of Subsea Drilling Systems, about how new technologies are driving predictivity into offshore drilling, and helping to build the baseline of reliability and certainty that operators demand.
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February 05, 2020
Guyana vigorously defended its oil contract with ExxonMobil after the deal was criticized by human-rights group Global Witness just a month before the country holds a general election.