To accommodate the future needs of the rapidly growing Angola offshore oil and gas industry, Fugro has opened its new facility in the SONILS Oil Service Centre in Luanda.

Front-end engineering design continues for Persephone, the next major offshore development in Australia’s North West Shelf.

A new liner comprised of thermoplastic fuoropolymers, polyurethanes, and Kevlar is available to the offshore pipeline market, and has been successfully deployed by Petronas Carigali on subsea pipelines in the South China Sea. Adapted from a liner originally developed for the onshore utility pipeline market, the new infeld liner product is being developed for the offshore pipeline market.

BP has awarded Trelleborg an order for foam buoyancy systems for the second-phase development of the Shah Deniz field offshore Azerbaijan. Trelleborg will supply a buoyancy package filled with its high-temperature syntactic foam.

Modus Seabed Intervention has taken delivery of a new 150 hp HD ROV complete with launch and recovery system (LARS) from Schilling Robotics.

Cameron has introduced its Mark IV control system, featuring a redundant, three-point of distribution (POD) design as an option for its subsea BOPs.

FES International has won a contract to supply 12 diverless bend stiffener connectors to GE Wellstream.

James Fisher and Sons plc, a UK marine services provider, has formed a new venture with Aberdeen-based KDM Marine – James Fisher Mass Flow Excavation – to jointly offer their subsea excavation capabilities and resources to the offshore industry in a single entity.

Petroiran Development Co. has completed its development program of the offshore Forouzan oil field which Iran shares with Saudi Arabia