Boots & Coots Inc.,
Houston, and add energy group AS, Stavanger, have entered into a cooperation agreement to market and offer an integrated risk management solution covering blowout prevention, mitigation, response, and related services. The pact gives Boots & Coots exposure to the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Under the agreement, Boots & Coots and add energy will cooperate on well control response and blowout prevention-related risk and engineering services in Norway and on transient hydraulic simulations worldwide. Boots & Coots provides integrated pressure control services to onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration companies worldwide.
Add energy, through its subsidiary add wellflow AS, is a leading supplier of dynamic simulations and flow engineering for well control incidents and contingency planning.
SNF Group,
Andrezieux, France, has committed investments to expand global capacity of polyacrylamides to more than 450,000 tonnes/year from 350,000 tonnes/year over the next 2 years. The polyacrylamides are used mainly in enhanced oil recovery, water treatment, and other industries. SNF is shifting its focus more to the US with its EOR growth market. SNF is building a new plant at Plaquemine, La., with initial capacity of 50,000 tonnes/year during 2010-11, growing to more than 250,000 tonnes/year ultimately. Other new polyacrylamide capacity is planned for China, South Korea, and France.
SNF is one of the world's leading manufacturers of water-soluble polymers and specializes in serving the municipal, industrial, and wastewater treatment industries as well as a wide array of specialty applications.
Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine,
Charlottesville, Va., has won contracts to supply bridge navigation systems for four new offshore oil supply vessels to be built in Brazil. The four multipurpose platform supply vessels, designed by Rolls-Royce, will be built at the Estaleiro Alianca shipyard near Rio de Janeiro for Cia. Brasileira de Offshore. They will be placed on long-term charter with Brazil's state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA to provide support services for offshore oil platforms. The scope of supply includes radars, autopilot, speed and heading sensors, and other navigation systems. Last year, Sperry Marine received orders to supply the same navigation packages for four similar vessels at the same shipyard.
Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine, a unit of Northrop Grumman Corp., provides smart navigation and ship control solutions for the international marine industry.
CGGVeritas,
Paris, has announced that Ardiseis, its regional joint venture with TAQA in Oman and the greater Middle East, broke the world record for most vibrating points (VPs) in a single day at 17,011 VPs. The same Omani land acquisition crew at the same time also completed 5 years without a lost-time incident. Having delivered nearly 6 million man-hr, the crew is currently operating with 25,000 channels and moving over 32,000 receivers/day.
CGGVeritas is a leading international pure-play geophysical company delivering a wide range of technologies, services, and equipment (through Sercel) to the global oil and gas industry.
Noah Consulting,
Houston, has opened an office in Calgary, part of an effort to expand its presence in global markets.
Noah Consulting provides information management solutions to a diverse array of industries, including the oil and gas industry. It offers data management, data warehousing, data integration, business intelligence, information quality, and master data management solutions.
Subsea 7 Inc.,
Georgetown, Cayman Islands, has won through its i-Tech division a 5-year ROV contract in excess of $10 million from Mexico's Industrial Perforadora de Campeche SA de CV (IPC). I-Tech will supply an advanced newbuild 3,000 m-rated work-class ROV system and provide IPC with ROV operations, maintenance, and management services for the duration of the contract onboard the La Muralla III newbuild ultradeepwater semisubmersible. Offshore operations will commence upon arrival of the rig in Mexico, currently scheduled for fourth quarter 2010. It is i-Tech's third contract onboard newbuild deepwater drilling rigs in Mexico.
I-Tech is the world's second-largest supplier of ROV support services to the oil and gas exploration and production industry.
Subsea 7 is one of the world's leading subsea engineering and construction companies, offering all the expertise and assets that make SURF (subsea umbilical, riser, and flowline) field development possible. Subsea 7 has a fleet of dynamically positioned ships capable of reeled and flexible pipelay, subsea construction, and saturation diving and a portfolio of pipeline construction yards worldwide.
Iridium Holdings LLC,
Bethesda, Md., has closed on its acquisition by GHL Acquisition Corp., New York. GHL will become Iridium Communications Inc. The previously privately held Iridium also closed on its offering of 16 million newly issued shares of stock. The acquisition and stock issue will enable Iridium to secure funding required for development and launch of its next-generation satellite constellation.
GHL is a special-purpose acquisition company founded by Greenhill & Co. and launched in February 2008 in an initial public offering raising $400 million of gross proceeds.
Iridium is the only provider of mobile satellite communications services offering 100% global coverage, offering voice and data communications services to remote regions for the oil and gas, utilities, mining, and other industries.
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