More Subsea Oil & Gas News in Africa

Stork Technical Services has won a $15.8-million contract to provide subsea inspection services offshore West Africa.

Tullow Ghana has contracted Technip for subsea installations related to the Jubilee Phase 1A development offshore Ghana.

Tullow Ghana Ltd. has signed a frame agreement with Aker Solutions for well intervention at Jubilee and Tanto deepwater fields offshore Ghana.

A new high-pressure drill pipe riser for intervention system (DPRIS) was deployed recently on the Cameron/Total Usan project offshore West Africa, and appears to be a cost-efficient solution for subsea operations, workover applications, and well intervention.

BP has awarded Oceaneering International a three-year field support vessel services contract offshore Angola.

Anadarko has contracted Metocean Services International (MSI) for a two-year multiple location metocean measurement project offshore Mozambique.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and FMC Technologies Inc. have signed a global alliance agreement covering subsea systems and life-of-field services.

The Pazflor field offshore Angola boasts a number of firsts. Foremost among them is that it is the first-ever project anywhere to deploy a development plan based on gas/liquid separation at the mudline spanning several reservoirs.

Mermaid Maritime subsidiary Subtech has won a contract to provide subsea and diving services for an unnamed major offshore Congo.

MSI has installed a current mooring system and a metocean buoy in block 16 offshore Angola for Maersk Oil.

Forum Energy Technologies Inc. will supply a Sub-Atlantic Super Mohawk II ROV to Abyss International Benthic Exploration.

The future of floating production systems is solid, says Infield in its “Floating Production Systems Market Report to 2015”.

A number of new, big subsea projects were announced recently.

Ezra Holdings Ltd. has received three letters of awards/intent for subsea contracts valued at about $85 million.

BP has successfully tested a deepwater well emergency capping stack offshore Angola.

Tullow Oil has contracted DOF Subsea UK to provide jumper/spool installation services offshore Ghana.

Subsea 7 has awarded Hippo Marine, a Fendercare subsidiary, a contract for the supply of 80 pipelaying buoyancy modules, each with a net buoyancy of 2,100 kg and an operational depth rating of 40 m (131 ft).

BMT Scientific Marine Services is to provide riser monitoring systems for Total’s deepwater CLOV project offshore Angola.

Total has contracted FES International to supply diverless bend-stiffener connectors (DBSCs) for installation on the CLOV FPSO on block 17 offshore Angola.

BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT) has patented a strain measurement system and attachment scheme for use on ultra-deepwater steel catenary risers.

Production at the Olowi Field offshore Gabon has been suspended, according to operator Canadian Natural Resources (CNR).

Subsea technology is evolving quickly to cope with the growing needs of the oil and gas industry and oceanography. AUVs are going to play increasingly important roles ranging from needs such as the introduction of increasingly complex and automated subsea production systems to surveillance of protected marine areas and coastal zones.