Milestones

The Dales Voe decommissioning facility in Shetland is one step closer to becoming a center of excellence for recycling offshore structures from the North Sea with the arrival of two new installations for decommissioning by strategic partners Veolia and Peterson. The structures from Spirit Energy’s ST-1 arrived in the dedicated port facility on 15 July.

The world’s leading manufacturer of Thermoplastic Composite Pipelines (TCP), Airborne Oil & Gas (AOG), has announced a new operations director has joined its management team.

TDI-Brooks has hired Mrs. Jayme Mc Bee as Geochemical Service Director. Jayme will be leading the Surface Geochemical Seep-Hunting service line at TDI-Brooks. Mrs. McBee holds a Master’s degree in Geology from Texas A&M University and brings over seven years’ experience serving the onshore and offshore energy industries.

At the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission’s (IOC-UNESCO) 30th Assembly in Paris the UK, represented by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), was elected onto the IOC Executive Council.

A recent week-long operation included accurate remote configuration of the positioning systems onboard the FPSO, the assisting anchor handling vessel and the dive support vessel, with no Fugro survey crew offshore. This is the first fully remote FPSO heading control operation in the North Sea, enabling significant operational cost savings and de-risking through a reduction of offshore personnel.

In what is believed to be a first for Australia, the unique Safeway motion compensated offshore access system of the Dutch Van Aalst Group recently completed more than 1200 safe personnel transfers and 40 gangway operations in only 24 days. For client Woodside Energy the campaign experienced no downtime whatsoever and created significant risk elimination and cost savings, resulting in maximum efficiency of operations.

WFS Technologies, a global leader in Subsea Internet of Things (SIOT®) devices for Asset Integrity Management, announces their expansion into Houston and Brazil as they continue to meet their growth objectives for 2019.

A far-reaching Memorandum of Intent covering future collaboration has been signed by the organization orchestrating space programs for 22 European countries and the coordinators of One Sea, the industry alliance bringing together leading exponents of autonomous ship technology.

International oilfield services company Expro has acquired 100% of the equity of technology company Quality Intervention AS (QI).

Norwegian based oil and gas solids solutions firm, FourPhase, has secured a six-figure trial including the option of 12-month extension with one of the major operators in North America.

The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) confirms the appointment of Andy Seymour, to its Governing Board.

First Draft of the U.N. Law of the Sea “BBNJ” Agreement on Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction Has Been Released for Review