Van Oord has been awarded two pipe lay projects for its new shallow water pipe lay vessel Stingray. The total value of these contracts is approximately USD 80 million amount to more than EUR 60 million. In Ulsan, Korea, Van Oord has been awarded the new SPM (Single Point Mooring) construction project for the S-Oil [...]
Norway’s Ulstein is currently customizing their innovative Chain type Stinger Handling system concept for three different companies on three different continents. The compact system improves both the vessel design and pipe-lay operations, and as acknowledgment on April 16th 2013, the equipment has won the bi-annual IRO Innovation Prize. The participants casted their votes for the [...]
Schlumberger announced today the introduction of the CoilScan* real-time coiled tubing (CT) pipe inspection system. The system minimizes nonproductive time (NPT) by providing real-time pipe inspection during intervention operations to identify CT pipe defects prior to entry into the wellbore. “Most CT failures in the field can be traced back to some initial defects, such [...]
On Thursday, 8 November 2012, a rupture was discovered in a blow-down pipe for feed water in the cracker in the Mongstad facility. The PSA has decided to investigate the incident. The incident was discovered on Thursday, 8 November, at approx. 0545 hours, through an unusual amount of noise coming from the cracking facility. The [...]
Van Oord’s first shallow water pipe lay vessel Stingray was named at the COSCO shipyard in Nantong, China. The naming ceremony was performed by Mrs A. Athmer-Albersen, wife of Managing Director Offshore, Mr J.B.E.M. Athmer. Stingray is designed in accordance with the highest quality and safety standards in the oil and gas industry and equipped [...]
Experts from joint integrity and engineering services company Hydratight found an innovative solution to a tricky repair for Statoil, by using a MORGRIP connector to repair a 6in super duplex pipe located within the constrained space of a subsea manifold, 340m under the surface of the North Sea. Hydratight was called in to repair a [...]
Miclyn Express Offshore’s subsidiary, Express Offshore Solutions (“EOS”), has secured further project and pipe transportation contracts totalling US$14.1 m in revenue. These contracts involve both direct and transhipment transportation of pipes from fabrication yards to installation vessels using cargo vessels, tugs and barges. The projects are taking place in South East Asia as well as [...]
DeepFlex announced today it has entered into a contract with Petrobras to conduct a qualification testing program on DeepFlex’s patented composite flexible fiber reinforced pipe components. This multi-phase, multi-year contract will include over 5,000 individual tests. This contract award demonstrates Petrobras’ commitment to qualify DeepFlex’s products for offshore applications. Petrobras and DeepFlex have been working [...]
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions provider with main office in Finland, is to supply the design and propulsors/positioning system for a series of two new flexible pipe laying vessels (PLVs) for advanced operations. The vessels are to be built at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in the Republic of Korea. The [...]
TTS Group ASA’ subsidiary TTS Energy AS has signed a contract with EDC, Egyptian Drilling Company, for various pipe handling equipment. The contract has a value of USD 4,4 million. The equipment will be installed onboard one of EDC`s Jack Up drilling rig within June 2012. “In accordance with our strategy, upgrades and equipment sales [...]
