Kobelco Compressors America, Inc.
Kobelco Compressors America, Inc. (KCA), a supplier of rotary screw compressor packages in the oil and gas industry, announced the grand opening of our new state of the art service facility in the Houston area. The new 6,000 sq. ft. facility in La Porte opens for business in September 2016 and will be able to handle multiple compressor overhauls simultaneously.
The much needed service center will provide quicker turnaround time to address the needs of Kobelco's expanding customer base in Texas and the surrounding regions. With the building's completion, customers will have closer and easier access to Kobelco's knowhow, customer service and compressor overhauls, ensuring reliable operation and optimum performance for many years.
The site aligns with Kobelco's Mission Statement, "To be a leading global provider of quality and innovative engineered compressor systems that deliver superior value for our customers, employees and investors."
Proserv
Energy services company Proserv has won two significant contract wins in the Gulf of Mexico. The deals with Talos Energy and Hess Corporation will see Proserv carry out work at the operators' respective Phoenix and Conger field expansion developments.
The delivery of these contracts will be a truly collaborative effort involving Proserv's global team of subsea controls and communications experts in Great Yarmouth, UK; Trondheim, Norway and Houston, USA.
Proserv will provide subsea communications and controls solutions to support the brownfield upgrade of the Phoenix field for Talos Energy. Specifically, the company will design, manufacture and supply an Open Communications Hub (OCH) and Electrical Distribution Units to interface with the existing subsea infrastructure previously supplied by Proserv. The design, manufacture and supply of the OCH will be delivered by Proserv's dedicated controls team in Houston with support from the company's engineering and project teams in Trondheim.
The award with Hess Corporation calls for Proserv to provide a Subsea Control Module (SCM) and associlated tree mounted equipment for the expansion of the Conger field. The design and manufacture of the SCM will be carried out by Proserv's team of subsea experts in Great Yarmouth. The tree mounted equipment and the final testing, servicing and the integration of equipment will be performed at Proserv's controls facility in Houston.
Over the past three years, Proserv has provided Hess Corporation with controls solutions for Hess' Tubular Bells, Stampede and now, Conger projects in the Gulf of Mexico.
The workscopes for both projects will be delivered later this year, in line with key project milestones.
Proserv, which operates worldwide through 26 operating centers based in 11 countries, has a 40year track record in delivering worldclass solutions for the energy industry, particularly in the subsea, production and drilling market sectors.
Hunting
Hunting, the international energy services company, today announced that its Titan Division's select fire perforating system recently set a new Canadian ecoil perforating record with a 52 CFA gun string deployed by Titanium Tubing Technology Ltd. for Teine Energy Ltd. in Kindersley, Saskatchewan.
Titanium achieved the record, previously held by Tucker Energy Services in Canada, after deploying the guns' string in one run with 60.3mm ecoil. By using Hunting's Titan Division ControlFire® switch system, the company was able to perforate in a single trip rather than in the typical two to three runs.
Titan's ControlFire® switch system is the latest in perforating switch technology that uses unique switch identification logic to selectively perforate multiple intervals in one trip. Each
ControlFire® switch provides realtime confirmation and skipover capabilities through a surface perforating command and control panel.
Permasense
Permasense, a leading provider of remote corrosion and erosion monitoring solutions to the global energy industry, has completed the first installation of the ET210 Integrity Monitoring System in the UK North Sea, on Total's Alwyn platform.
Total has produced over one billion barrels of oil from the Alwyn area since 1987. Permasense has installed 12 sensors to deliver continuous wall thickness and temperature measurements from topside and surface equipment directly to desk.
The ET210 system delivers continuous measurements directly to desk, eliminating the costs and safety risks associated with manual inspection methods. The high quality and frequency of the data delivered offers users a realtime insight into the impact of operations-including flowrates, sand and acid levels on equipment integrity. This information provides operators with a platform for enhanced decisionmaking to maximize production rates, minimize downtime, and reduce the risk of corrosion or erosionrelated incidents.
Trendsetter Engineering
As a global provider of specialized subsea solutions to the oil and gas industry, Trendsetter Engineering has been supplying Subsea Accumulator Modules (SAM) throughout the world, including Arctic environments.
Trendsetter's SAM systems have been deployed in a variety of roles, including as a simple BOP stand‐by
unit and as a key component to augment subsea pig launch systems. Depending on the project, the SAM
can be utilized as a simple stand‐by source of hydraulic power or can be equipped with complex controls
and acoustic communications.
The recent Rig Specific Requirements prescribed in the Well Control Rule have placed additional
demands on a rig's BOP accumulation and flow requirements including the following:§ 250.734(b)(2) ‐ Have the accumulator capacity located subsea…; The accumulator capacity must operate each required shear ram, ram locks, one pipe ram, and disconnect the LMRP and have the capability of delivering fluid to each ROV function via flying leads
Trendsetter Engineering has responded to this requirement by making SAM equipment available for industry access. The systems have been used in the past to ensure compliance in the Alaskan arctic by remotely accessing a BOP Panel on a submerged BOP. The flexibility of compact design allows the ability to modify the SAMs to suit the application, making them ideal for any application.
Whether renting a SAM from Trendsetter's existing inventory, or purchasing one designed for a particular application, Trendsetter has the expertise and track record to provide you with a SAM unit that will ensure you maintain regulatory compliance.
Fugro
Fugro has been awarded a contract by Total E&P Uruguay B.V. to support its drilling campaign offshore Uruguay. The contract provides for ROV and tooling services in the Raya1 field in 3,400 meters' water depth.
Fugro is supplying two stateoftheart 200hp FCV 4000D workclass ROV systems and subsea tooling, which are installed on board the Maersk Venturer drilling ship, and a field support vessel.
In addition to specialist tooling tasks, Fugro is performing a range of activities typically required during drilling operations such as bullseye checks, seabed survey, and general cleaning on and around the subsea BOP. Realtime video provided by Fugro and Total telecom network enables Total to observe critical operations from its onshore office should it be needed.
GE Oil & Gas
GE Oil & Gas subsidiary, PT. VetcoGray Indonesia, has been awarded a field decommissioning contract with Premier Oil Indonesia (Premier Oil Natuna Sea B.V.), to support the shutdown of four subsea wells in the Anoa Field, offshore Indonesia. The trees were among the first to be installed by GE in the Asia Pacific region in the 1990's.
The deal will see GE Oil & Gas prepare the field's subsea production trees for removal, supporting the removal of flowlines and production umbilicals, installation of intervention hot stab assemblies and provision of annulus and flowline flanges. Once the wells have been made ready for decommissioning, the tree caps, subsea trees (XTs) and tubing hangers will be removed, cement plugs set and the seabed cleared to comply with local regulations.
Prior to commencing the first phase of work, GE Oil & Gas will conduct interface testing with customersupplied tooling and newlymanufactured tools, ensuring the trees are ROVenabled for the wider decommissioning campaign, anticipated to begin in Q2, 2017.
Idox
An intelligent search and navigation portal for engineering content, OnLink, an Idox solution, launched 15 August 2016. The OnLink portal has been designed with engineers in mind to deliver a 'single view of documents'. By linking content from the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and external systems, such as ERP and asset management systems, related information can be searched and viewed quickly and easily from one place.
In a market where costs are tightly controlled, it is more important than ever for companies to leverage the investments already made in software. OnLink complements an existing Engineering Content Management (ECM) system and is a simple addon with no requirement to change or upgrade systems - all content remains in the source repository. It instantly brings value and intelligence to drawings and documents by linking P&IDs to associated engineering content through tags, hotspots and hyperlinks. This increases the speed and efficiency with which engineers can search and access documents, cutting down on project delays and errors as well as improving decisionmaking and adherence to compliance and safety regulations.
Ashtead Technology
Ashtead Technology has successfully completed a subsea integrity management project to support BP's Quad 204 redevelopment of the Schiehallion and Loyal fields, West of Shetland.
Ashtead, a leading independent provider of subsea technology and equipment, deployed its new Deflection Monitoring System (DMS), to capture critical data required to safely deploy and install two subsea manifolds at water depths of 400m. The technology was launched to the market earlier this year.
The system monitors deflection, heading, pitch, roll, depth and other parameters of subsea structures in real time. This allows informed decisions to be made during critical operations, ensuring specified tolerances and safety requirements are taken into account.
The DMS was optimized to the exact pressures and water depths required for the scope of work at Ashtead's UKAS accredited calibration laboratory before it was launched from a vessel and lowered 400m onto the seafloor. The project was completed on time and allowed the subsea manifolds to be installed within 24 hours of the DMS being deployed. The entire project was controlled remotely via radio frequency and acoustic data links, removing the need for direct ROV or diver support intervention in order to gather attitude measurements.
Ashtead utilized a range of communication and positioning tools to enhance the accuracy of data collected and to ensure maximum performance of the subsea structure once in place.
This new approach to the installation and integrity management of subsea systems was developed by Ashtead Technology as part of its range of valueadded services to significantly reduce risk and cost in subsea operations.
Quad 204 is a major UKCS redevelopment incorporating a new FPSO and upgrade of the subsea infrastructure. It will enable the potential recovery of an additional 400 million barrels of resource from the existing Schiehallion and Loyal fields and extend production through to 2035.
