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Vol. 226 No. 1 |
UWG Group, a global group of subsea engineering companies, has relaunched its business as Acteon, and has announced the first acquisition under its new corporate identity. Acteon acquired the business and assets of Technip Offshore Moorings, Inc. The new company, called InterMoor Inc., is a marine and mooring services provider for the offshore oil and gas sector. Headquartered in Amelia, Louisiana., InterMoor has significant experience in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, the Caspian Sea and Asia Pacific.
Halliburton has opened a new facility in Rock Springs, Wyoming. The 35-acre, 250,000-sq-ft facility, will consolidate the company’s local operations and allow for future growth as the energy services business continues to increase in southwest Wyoming. Halliburton’s original Rock Springs facility opened in 1948. Approximately 525 employees and all of Halliburton Energy Services’ product service lines will be operating out of the new facility.
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C & C Technologies, Inc., ordered critical components from Kongsberg Maritime to construct its second Surveyor Class autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The C-Surveyor II is expected to be available for hydrographic surveys in April 2005. The design, modeled after the C-Surveyor I, will include a multibeam echosounder, chirp side scan sonar, chirp sub-bottom profiler and a CTD system. The AUV will be positioned using ultra-short-baseline acoustics integrated with inertial measuring unit and a Doppler velocity log. A fuel cell will provide 45 kWh of energy with an endurance of 50 hours at 3.8 knots with all sensors operating. An acoustic data link will allow sub-sampled sonar data to be viewed in real time. Initial depth rating is 3000 m, with a planned upgrade to 4500 m. Over the last four years, C & C Technologies has completed 68 AUV projects in four continents for 33 different clients.
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Norsk Hydro signed an agreement with Enventure Global Technology, L.L.C., that incorporates solid expandable tubular (SET) technology into their Tekno2005 program to develop new reserves and reduce development costs in their Norwegian offshore fields. The cooperative effort consists of the first field application of Enventure’s MonoDiameter system in combination with Hydro’s multi-well, extended-reach field development scenario. These installations will be fit-for-purpose applications to maximize recovery of reserves at distances exceeding 10 km from the drilling structures. One potential candidate is the Ormen Lange field, which is expected to supply the UK with 20% of its total gas demand by 2007.
Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) announced that Offshore Minerals Management (OMM), a division of the US Minerals Management Service, has selected SIS applications as the foundation components of the OCS Connect Project. The project is a phased, multi-year, electronic government (e-Government) transformation of the OMM program, which aims to improve core operational processes, including replacement of legacy information management tools with state-of-the-art commercial products. Key benefits will include faster processing, improved sharing capabilities and secure Web access.
As part of a $55-million contract to expand the Woodside Energy Ltd.’s Northwest Shelf project, a 50-mile string of 900 subsea pipeline anchors were positioned by Technip and Subsea 7. An Enerpac high-pressure (10,000-psi) hydraulic system was built to lift and position the 32-ton anchors so they could be lowered by shipboard crane to the ocean floor. Correct anchor positioning ensured stability of the new 42-in. second trunkline from the Woodside-operated gas condensate fields. Four RR308 double-acting cylinders were used to provide a total of 120 tons of lift capacity for each of two anchor feed beds (each cylinder having a 30-ton capacity on push function, 5-ton on retraction, and with a stroke of 8-1/2 in.).
Halliburton, Pipeline Engineering, Westport Technology, Subsea 7, Granherne and KBR have joined forces in an integrated service alliance, named SureStream Flow Assurance Service, to provide integrated support and services throughout all stages of a project, from inception, feasibility, front-end engineering design and engineering through to remediation, intervention and operational support. Operators can benefit from having one source to address almost any flow assurance issue. The service includes analytical, engineering assessment, remediation, chemical cleaning, mechanical cleaning, thermal cleaning and intrusive intervention. Capabilities extend from design assistance for developments, troubleshooting, economic and serviceable life evaluation of pipelines and integrity assessment through to operational advice and support. The service evaluates options for production optimization, identifies possible remedial actions and provides guidance on safe operational procedures. In addition, a suite of programs and software from Subsea 7 and Granherne enhances the understanding of pipeline thermal and hydraulic performance.
Paradigm donated a VoxelGeo XV Visionarium to the Calgary Centre for Innovative Technology (CCIT) iCentre. The visualization center is a collaboration between the University of Calgary’s Departments of Engineering, Science and Medicine. VoxelGeo is a 3D volume visualization and interpretation package that allows users at the CCIT to work in a 3D stereo environment. VoxelGeo provides full immersion, and improves interpretation efficiency and accuracy.
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