In early December 2012, Dutch subsea service provider, DCN Diving, required the assistance and service of MacArtney Benelux, to co-design, build and deliver an extensive range of underwater technology equipment, for use on a major project.

 Tritech, the underwater technology specialist, has developed its 360° real-time anchor-chain and riser integrity system for Floating Production Storage and Offloading Units (FPSOs) to include a full design service that ensures optimum deployment.

 The one day “Offshore Operator Training” course will cover the following software applications which are developed by WGIM:

• IC-Inspection (previously known as Inspection Manager)

On-line data acquisition of inspection data during diving and ROV inspection operations of subsea structures, equipment and pipelines

• NEXUS IC (previously known as AIM)

Offline inspection data and video review

Track repositioning

Daily Reporting

Subsea 7’s Allen Leatt, Senior Vice President Engineering, has recently been elected a Fellow of the UK’s prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering. The Academy brings together the country’s most eminent engineers from all disciplines to promote excellence in the science, art and practice of engineering.

Plastic pipes have many advantages over pipes made from metals or concrete, such as good chemical resistance, low weight, low cost, and longer predicted service life, and are already used extensively for the transport of gas, water and chemicals. However, their use in more safety critical applications is limited by the fact that there is currently no validated inspection system available to evaluate the joints.

Savante launch full service subsea laser scanning, measurement and inspection services on their stunning new web site at www.savante.co.uk
Savante are the leading subsea laser inspection, laser measurement and laser scanning specialists in the offshore oil and gas sector, with applications in positioning, measurement, corrosion management, damage assessment and communications. 

Forum Energy Technologies (UK) Ltd (FET) has announced that its Subsea Services business VisualSoft has launched VisualWorks 9.0, a major upgrade to their existing Pipeline and Structural Inspection Survey Suite.
 
VisualWorks 9.0 introduces unique workscope support tools and a new integrated 3D Structural Viewer across the entire range of online and offline products:

•    Visual3D-Inspector adds inspection workscope planning and progress tracking seamlessly integrated with digital video acquisition controls and anomaly logging;
•    3D Structural Viewer loads electronic drawings and provides two-way linking of components in asset models with the real video and all associated survey and inspection data for better visualisation during analysis and reporting.

Pro-ROV Services of San Diego, California was contracted by Exxon/Mobil Pipeline to conduct video inspections on two risers of the GA-A244. The platform is located 130 kilometers (80 miles) off the coast of Galveston, Texas in the Gulf of Mexico. Situated in 110 meters (360 feet) of water and acting as a pumping platform for five other drilling platforms in the area.

Aker Solutions is pleased to announce that EnQuest and Petrofac Facilities Management are using Coabis to manage the 2010 subsea inspection of EnQuest's Heather and Thistle platforms.

VisualSoft Ltd, a member of the Triton Group, has recently launched version 8 of its software suite VisualWorks. VisualWorks is a modular suite of applications to record, archive, review and report digital video inspection data.

Aker Solutions is pleased to announce that Pertamina Hulu Energi ONWJ Limited in Indonesia has chosen Coabis to manage the subsea integrity management of their underwater assets.

They are delighted to welcome Pertamina to the Coabis User Group, and look forward to a constructive working relationship with them.

In November 2007 the residents of a Mississippi mobile home park were unaware that a buried pipeline that passed close to their homes had ruptured and began to leak its contents of liquid propane, forming a deadly gas cloud.

Before all the residents could be evacuated the gas exploded killing 63 year old Maddie Mitchell, and her 20 year old granddaughter, Naquandra.