A Depla during scale testing. Images from Centre for 云顶赌场老虎机 Foundation Systems (COFS). Dutch drag anchor specialists Vryhof Anchors have gone down under in a move to develop efficient deepwater anchor systems鈥
The HelWin Beta platform, on its way out to sea. Photos from HFG. The North Sea is set to continue to provide work for fabricators for 10-20 more years, says Heerema Fabrication Group鈥檚 CEO鈥
The Pieter Schelte at Marine Engineering鈥檚 Korean yard. Photo from Allseas. Work is lining up for Allseas鈥 mega-vessel the Pieter Schelte, which finally starts sea trials offshore Korea this summer鈥
Girish U. Pai, Devendra Awadhiya and Zubin Fatakia discuss the evolution of safety case in designs for offshore platforms. 云顶赌场老虎机 installations are exposed to nature鈥檚 fury all the time. The operations involve handling very heavy modules weighing tens of thousands of tons鈥
The Mariner development concept. Images from Statoil. The Mariner heavy oil field took 40 years, 12 oil companies, five seismic surveys, and 18 exploration/appraisal wells to get to where it is today鈥
A Cyberhawk ROAV in flight. Photos from Cyberhawk. Chris Fleming explains how using remotely operated aerial vehicles for inspections are reducing plant shutdowns at oil and gas production facilities in the UK and around the world鈥
Work on a Heinen & Hopman HVAC system. Photo from Heinen & Hopman. Energy efficiency is high on the agenda for both Arctic exploration and in general. Elaine Maslin found out more鈥
The Leman compression module at HSM 云顶赌场老虎机, Schiedam. Photos from HSM 云顶赌场老虎机. HSM 云顶赌场老虎机 has added new contracts to its order book, but more could be done by the industry to reduce costs and more efficiently use assets鈥
Seaway Heavy Lifting鈥檚 crane vessel Stanislav Yudin installing a topside. Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) will be involved in one of the biggest lifting campaigns in the North Sea鈥
Hong Kong-based CNOOC Ltd. announced the Lishui 36-1 gas field began production. The Lishui 36-1 gas field is located 150km from Wenzhou city Zhejiang province, with an average water depth of approximately 84m. The gas field has four producing wells鈥
Crowley Maritime Corp. will christen the new ocean-class tug, the Ocean Sky, in Houston tomorrow. The 156-ft long Ocean Sky is the fourth of Crowley's new ocean-class tugs to leave the Bollinger shipyard, following its sister ship, the Ocean Sun鈥
The 450-tonne Elettra platform deck sailed away from Rosetti Marino's Piomboni Yard in Marina di Ravenna on July 7, and on Monday 14, the deck was installed in the Adriatic Sea, 33 miles offshore Ancona, Italy. The scope of work assigned鈥
Norway-based Kvaerner's Q2 earnings fell but the firm saw an increase in order intake and growth on existing projects, according to its latest results. During the second quarter, Kvaerner completed three large offshore platform鈥
Sonangol Pesquisa e Produção, SA awarded a jackup contract to KCA Deutag for the Ben Rinnes jackup rig in Angola. The agreement, which comes with a two-year extension option, states that KCA Deutag鈥檚 offshore division will provide drilling鈥
Statoil has awarded Aibel a contract for the hook-up of new living quarters to the Oseberg C platform. The contract has an estimated value of about NOK 125 million. The project, called the Oseberg C Continuous Drilling (LQ Extension) project鈥
