Deepwater drilling and performance improvement specialist Exceed is exhibiting for the first time at Offshore Europe’s Deepwater Zone (Stand 6C27) following a record year for the business. The Aberdeen-based company surpassed targets to turn over £5.2million ($8.5million) in 2010/11 and has taken on a further 25 staff in the last six months to reach a [...]
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Leading international classification society Bureau Veritas has slashed the reporting time for a Condition Assessment Programme report from three months to one month, and at the same time improved the accessibility and usability of the report. The dramatic shortening of time for the CAP programme reduces costs for tanker owners and makes the Bureau Veritas [...]
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) is on track to deliver its third KFELS N-Class jack-up rig to Rowan Companies, Inc. on time and within budget. The KFELS N-Class combines state-of-the-art design with the dual capabilities of performing drilling and production activities efficiently and safely. Equipped to operate in some of the harshest offshore environments in [...]
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) is on track to deliver ENSCO 8504, the fifth of seven ENSCO 8500 Series® ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rigs being built exclusively for Ensco plc . Keppel FELS expects to deliver the rig on time, within budget and with no lost time incidents. ENSCO 8504 has been contracted to TOTAL [...]
RBG, the leading provider of inspect, assess and repair (IAR) services to the global energy industry that was recently acquired by Stork Technical Services, has achieved more than 1,000,000 manhours without a lost time incident (LTI) across its base facility operations. RBG’s base facility team, which has more than 70 employees and operates from Aberdeen, [...]
RBG has achieved 11 years, and more than 500,000 man hours, without a lost time incident (LTI) on theTriton FPSO in the North Sea. Contracted by Wood Group, RBG has delivered its expert fabric maintenance support including access solutions and specialist cleaning mechanical services since 2000. The achievement marks the latest milestone in the [...]
M-I SWACO announced the release of its DEEPCLEAN* additive, a single-stage well-displacement chemical. Designed primarily for downhole use in oil and gas wells, the additive is used for cleanup during the displacement of oil- or synthetic-base drilling fluids prior to the start of the completion operations. In Nigeria, one operator used the DEEPCLEAN additive to [...]
When oil was leaking from the stern tube seals of a general cargo vessel, Hydrex mobilized a certified diver-technician team to the vessel’s location in Mobile, Alabama, to perform underwater stern tube seal repairs before the ship was transferred to a new chartering party. Hydrex had already performed a similar operation on one of the [...]
LS Cable (Chairman & CEO Christopher Koo) announced that the company has succeeded in the development and commercialization of an umbilical cable, a composite cable for offshore engineering, for the first time in Korea. The umbilical cable will be used for power supply and signal transmission/reception for controlling ROVs (remotely operated vehicle) which are used [...]
