German steel piping procurement group Kürvers has opened a Johannesburg office, led by regional director Tim Booth, to service the burgeoning Sub-Saharan EPC market.
The integrated energy services and production management divisions of Petrofac and Schlumberger, respectively, have signed a co-operation agreement under which they will establish a working relationship to deliver integrated and high-value production鈥
The Society of Petroleum Engineers and Getenergy are working together to bring providers of education, training and national workforce development to their respective global oil and gas industry events under a three-year agreement commencing in June 2012.
Mooring Systems鈥 150t spooler for the BP Valhall flowline.Aberdeen-based Moorings Systems has completed the installation of a flexible export flowline to transfer water to a DP tanker at the BP Valhall platform complex in the Norwegian North Sea鈥
Aker Solutions plans to establish a large engineering office in Tromsø as part of the company鈥檚 strategy to increase its footprint in the northern regions of Norway. The company is already building up a subsea service base in Hammerfest to support the Goliat subsea field development鈥
Mustang has acquired a majority stake in Latin American automation and control engineering and consulting firm ISI Solutions for an initial consideration of $5.2 million. The company will be rebranded ISI Mustang and will continue to be led by Pedro Santamaria and the existing management team.
Oceaneering is acquiring IRM, subsea engineering and field operations services provider AGR Field Operations from Norway鈥檚 AGR Group in a $240 million transaction.
Classification society RINA expects its recent move to take control of Italian engineering consultancy D鈥橝ppolonia to boost group turnover by almost 50% and significantly strengthen its expertise and range of services in the offshore and port development fields鈥
ALL RHODES LEAD TO . . .: Susan Cunningham (pictured), SVP worldwide exploration at Noble Energy, received the Rhodes Petroleum Industry Leadership Award in Houston last month. It was one of six awards presented by the Petroleum Division鈥
With 22 active heave compensated (AHC) cranes ranging from 10t to 250t currently operational on its vessels and another 17 on order, French offshore service provider Bourbon Subsea Services considers itself something of an authority on AHC crane capabilities鈥
云顶赌场老虎机 rig and vessel repair continues to produce attractive returns for yards that are well placed strategically and geographically. OE checks out the latest developments at two players 鈥 one in Bahrain, the other in Gibraltar 鈥 still relatively鈥
A deployment system for the installation of large-diameter, reinforced, bonded rubber hose offloading lines for catenary anchor leg mooring buoys has been developed by floating production and mooring systems company SBM 云顶赌场老虎机 and handling systems specialist Caley Ocean Systems鈥
With a number of new vessels in the works and others just starting to make their presence felt in the market, Jumbo 云顶赌场老虎机's recent announcement that it will build a new-generation K-Class heavylift vessel suggests there's still plenty of competitive juice in the offshore installation鈥
An innovative installation approach was adopted this summer for a Dutch riser access tower constructed under Shell's SWEEP gas accumulation development programme. David Morgan reports.The 800t riser access tower (RAT) was fabricated by Mercon鈥
The offshore yard of Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea will start cutting steel for Dockwise's new marine transportation super vessel in September. David Morgan reports.Previously referred to as 鈥楾ype 0' but officially named as Dockwise Vanguard on 19 August鈥
