Offshore engineering

Published:  12 June, 2024 Etienne Clauw, Associate Product Line Manager – RTUs at Ovarro, explains how remote telemetry solutions could help oil and gas operators greatly improve their sustainability measures. The oil and gas industry faces demands to adopt more sustainable practices. But, given that fossil fuels will remain essential to global growth for the…

Published:  12 June, 2024 Ocean services provider DeepOcean has announced it has been awarded a significant recycling project from an international operator, to be executed on the UK continental shelf. This contract award is a significant milestone for DeepOcean’s Aberdeen office, which will oversee project management and engineering operations, with offshore activities scheduled during 2024.…

Jun 10, 2024 © kittikunfoto / Adobe Stock U.S. oilfield services giant Baker Hughes has secured a contract from Brazil state-owned oil and gas major Petrobras for workover and plug and abandonment (P&A) services in pre-salt and post-salt fields offshore Brazil. The multi-year project, set to start in the first half of 2025, will be…

Jun 10, 2024 © Parradee / Adobe Stock Wood has completed the front-end engineering and design (FEED) scope for the first phase of Aramco’s Accelerated Carbon Capture and Sequestration (ACCS) project in Saudi Arabia, expected to be the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) hub, upon completion. With an ambition to further reduce carbon…

Jun 7, 2024 © BINGJHEN / Adobe Stock The Offshore Wind Innovation Hub, led by Equinor, has selected six companies that will receive support to further develop their ideas and advance offshore wind’s potential in New York. Six companies were selected from a pool of 78 applicants based on the novelty of their solutions that…

Jun 6, 2024 Petrojarl Knarr FPSO (Credit: Altera Infrastructure) Equinor has selected engineering services firm Emerson to provide advanced well completion monitoring systems for its Rosebank oil and gas field in the North Sea, the U.K.’s largest undeveloped offshore field. Emerson’s suite of Roxar downhole monitoring tools will empower Equinor to use advanced oil recovery…

Jun 5, 2024 (Credit: Shearwater) Shearwater GeoServices has ramped up its multi-client activity by starting the Pelotas Basin 3D survey, offshore Brazil. The survey represents the fifth multi-client 3D acquisition project so far for Shearwater, the company said. The Pelotas Basin 3D is adding to Shearwater’s existing library in the conjugate Orange Basin of Namibia…

COWI North America, a subsidiary of engineering company COWI, has achieved approval certification body DNV for its offshore wind turbine foundations design for Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 offshore New York. COWI developed optimized foundation designs for 54 15MW turbines, set to generate 810MW, which has now been approved by DNV. The design not only exceeds…

Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings (MHB), through its wholly owned and major subsidiary Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMHE), has secured a subcontract to build an HVDC offshore substation (OSS) platform from Petrofac in support of TenneT’s 2GW project in the Netherlands . This OSS platform comprises a topside, weighing approximately 30,000 tonnes (including…

May 31, 2024 (Credit: Bardex) U.S.-based engineering company Bardex has won the 39th Annual Woelfel Best Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award for its Off Vessel Tensioning (OVT) BarLatch mooring system. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) confers the prestigious award to recognize a product, device, or system that best reflects innovation in mechanical engineering to…