ROVworld.com News - ROVworld Subsea Information http://www.rovworld.com/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:00:21 -0500 FeedCreator 1.8.0-nukeFEED (http://nukeSEO.com) Technip Awarded a Contract for the Norne Field in Norway http://www.rovworld.com/article6591.html Technip Technip was awarded by Statoil an engineering, procurement, construction and installation lump-sum contract for the Norne field development, located in the Norwegian Sea at a water depth of approximately 380 meters.

]]> no_email@example.com (ginamc) http://www.rovworld.com/article6591.html Cortez Subsea announce exclusive contract with Inspection Software Company MCS http://www.rovworld.com/article6590.html Cortez Subsea announce an exclusive contract with Egyptian information solutions firm, MCS.

MCS has been developing and providing data acquisition and management software services for underwater inspection to meet the needs of oil and gas companies for 14 years.  The agreement means the Aberdeen-based business is the only licensee to distribute and operate MCS software in the European Union and Africa.
 

]]> no_email@example.com (jamesmc) http://www.rovworld.com/article6590.html Pemex signs Deal with GE Over Mexican Gulf Projects http://www.rovworld.com/article6589.html GE US energy business GE Oil & Gas has signed a £54million deal with Pemex to support the operator’s Gulf of Mexico projects.

]]> no_email@example.com (ginamc) http://www.rovworld.com/article6589.html Noble to Begin Cyprus Gas Appraisals http://www.rovworld.com/article6588.html Noble Energy Noble Energy will begin drilling for natural gas at a new appraisal well off Cyprus.

 

The US firm, which reported a natural gas find of up to 8 trillion cubic feet southeast of the island two years ago, is conducting the appraisal to quantify and confirm the earlier find.

]]> no_email@example.com (ginamc) http://www.rovworld.com/article6588.html Technip Awarded Contract for a Polyethylene Expansion Project in Canada http://www.rovworld.com/article6587.html Technip Technip was awarded by NOVA Chemicals Corporation the detail engineering, and procurement services contract for the Polyethylene 1 expansion project located at their Joffre site* near Red Deer in Alberta, Canada.

]]> no_email@example.com (ginamc) http://www.rovworld.com/article6587.html Fugro Prepares for a Busy 2013 http://www.rovworld.com/article6586.html Fugro Subsea Services Ltd Fugro Subsea Services Ltd, based in Aberdeen, has successfully completed the mobilisation of five FCV 3000C work-class ROV systems.

 

These brand new ROV systems were installed onboard four support vessels; two existing ships in the Fugro Subsea Services fleet had their ROV capability upgraded, whilst two new ROV support vessels have been added for 2013.

]]> no_email@example.com (ginamc) http://www.rovworld.com/article6586.html BP Plans $1B in New Investment, Adding Two Drilling Rigs and 200 Jobs in Alaska http://www.rovworld.com/article6585.html BP BP announced it is planning to add $1 billion in new investment and two drilling rigs to its Alaska North Slope fields over the next five years due to changes in the state’s oil tax policy signed into law this month by Gov. Sean Parnell. 

]]> no_email@example.com (ginamc) http://www.rovworld.com/article6585.html Technip, in Consortium with Samsung and Huanqiu, Awarded Contract for LNG Projec http://www.rovworld.com/article6584.html Technip Technip, leader of a consortium with Samsung Engineering Co Ltd and China Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering Corporation, was awarded by Pacific NorthWest LNG Limited Partnership a contract for the front end engineering design and the early detailed engineering services of a grassroot liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. This project is proposed to be located on Lelu Island, British Columbia, Canada.

]]> no_email@example.com (ginamc) http://www.rovworld.com/article6584.html Jeremy Cresswell: Piper Alpha and the Generation Gap http://www.rovworld.com/article6583.html  It might seem odd choosing this issue of Energy to mark the 25th year since the Piper Alpha disaster of July 6, 1988, but we have taken our cue from the North Sea industry’s three-day Piper25 conference on June 18-20.

 

A quarter of a century is a long time . . . nearly a generation in the classic sense and long enough for direct memory of Piper to be eliminated from corporate minds. By that I mean the “Great Crew Change” that characterises this industry in a very particular way. I’ll come back to this.

]]> no_email@example.com (ginamc) http://www.rovworld.com/article6583.html FMC Technologies Receives Subsea Equipment Orders for Anadarko's Heidelberg Fiel http://www.rovworld.com/article6582.html  FMC Technologies Receives Subsea Equipment Orders for Anadarko's Heidelberg Field FMC Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FTI) announced that it has received orders from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) for subsea equipment for its Heidelberg field.

 
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