More Subsea Oil & Gas News in North Sea & Europe

DNV has initiated a joint industry project to establish a unified safety approach for deepwater lifting.

Statoil has awarded MMT a worldwide frame for survey services.

The diving support vessel Seven Havila has set what owners Subsea 7 and Havila Shipping say is a world first for number of divers on the seabed at one time.

Total has started development of the $4.2-billion Hild field in the Norwegian North Sea, although approval has yet to be issued by the Norwegian authorities.

Statoil has contracted Bergen Group Rosenberg to fabricate subsea structures for the Åsgard subsea compression project in the Norwegian Sea.

BP has awarded Subsea 7 a $100-million pipelay contract for the Clair Ridge project, west of Shetland in the UK sector.

Statoil has awarded DeepOcean a four-year frame agreement for offshore survey services.

Shell Projects and Technology has awarded FMC Technologies a five-year framework agreement for A/S Norske Shell’s deepwater subsea production systems.

Antrim Energy and Valiant Petroleum have agreed on early installation of subsea facilities for the Fionn field development in the UK northern North Sea.

Statoil has decided to replace the control systems in some of its older subsea wells offshore Norway, starting with the Vigdis and Tordis oilfields in the North Sea.

Statoil has awarded Technip two contracts for subsea installations in the North Sea with a total value of around $70 million.

Maersk Oil North Sea UK has granted Plexus Holdings $400,000 in funding for development of a 20,000-psi (1,379-bar) high-pressure/high-temperature mudline tieback wellhead system. 

Technip has won its largest ever subsea installation contract on the UK continental shelf for Nexen’s Golden Eagle development in the central North Sea.

Claxton Engineering Services is supplying a Norwegian contractor with a subsea drilling riser package.

EMAS AMC has won two contracts from Statoil, for mooring chain and riser replacements in the Norwegian North Sea.

Tullow Oil has signed up as an additional consulting partner to a Joint Industry Project (JIP) to develop a new and safer subsea wellhead, using Plexus’ patented POS-GRIP technology.

Statoil has taken up its last option with Technip for a frame contract covering diving, pipeline repair, contingency and modification services offshore Norway.

Marathon Oil Norge has contracted Aker Subsea for a subsea production system for the Bøyla field development in the Norwegian North Sea.

Statoil has taken up a further two-year option on a diving services contract with Technip Norge.

Total oil and gas investments on the Norwegian shelf this year could reach a record NOK 184.6 billion ($31.7 billion) according to Oslo-based Statistics Norway, which has been reporting on the sector to the government since 1985.

Schneider Electric has won an order from Aker Solution to design and implement a seabed controls power distribution unit for the Asgard subsea compression station.

Statoil has awarded Aker Solutions the job of engineering, procurement, and construction of a subsea production system for Svalin.

Total E&P UK has signed a long-term frame agreement with Expro concerning subsea well intervention services.

A record for distance, voltage, and frequency will be set when ABB provides to Aker Solutions drives and transformers for the subsea power distribution system at Statoil's Åsgard oil and gas field.