Top News of the Week of Feb 04 – Feb 10, 2013

1. Two Petrobras’ FPSOs Collide in Brazilian Shipyard

The P-58 and P-63 oil and gas platforms under construction at Brazilian Honorio Bicalho shipyard collided on Saturday after high winds disentangled their moorings.

2. New Subsea Oil and Gas Group Unveiled at Subsea UK 2013

A new subsea oil and gas group, Harkand, chaired by oil and gas industry veteran Tom Ehret, is launching today with an ambition to grow to a turnover of $1 billion in the next five years.

3. SMD Delivers HD3 Inter Array Cable Plough to Reef Subsea (UK)

Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (SMD) announced the early delivery of an HD3 inter array cable plough to Reef Subsea Power & Umbilical Ltd. (RSPU). RSPU has named the vehicle HDIA (Heavy Duty Inter Array) Plough and is to be mobilised onto the Polar Prince subsea construction vessel.

4. South Korea: DSME Starts Float Joining of Allseas Pieter Schelte Project

DSME announced that the Hull No. 3401 Allseas Pieter Schelte Project’s float joining process started on 26th November. This is the biggest project ever constructed at the Okpo shipyard. It will be 328m long, 117m wide, and 30m high so it will completely fill the No.1 dock after the float joining.

5. Technip Wins Contract from Shell for Gannet Field Off UK

Technip was awarded by Shell U.K. Limited an engineering, procurement, installation and construction contract for the Gannet F Reinstatement project, located in the North Sea, 180 kilometers east of Aberdeen, at a water depth of 95 meters.

Subsea World News Staff , February 10, 2013