Projects

Engineered Software, Inc., a software developer for piping systems worldwide and business partner with Crane, announced the joint release of Flow of Fluids v14.0. Flow of Fluids is widely used in the three phases of piping projects: Engineering, Commissioning and Operations.

Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by the Hess Corporation for installation work in support of the Stampede Project in deepwater US Gulf of Mexico (GoM).The scope of work involves installation of flowlines, steel catenary risers, umbilicals, jumpers and associated subsea architecture that tie back two drill centres to a tension leg platform hosting drill centres, water injection and gas lifts.

Super Nova Petroleum Corp., (SNP) appointed Ben Chu as its new president, COO and director effective immediately.Chu has been in the oil industry for over 15 years with experience in engineering, project finance, procurement and supply chain management, management of well service suppliers, analysis of energy commodity markets, and in private placements.

Wild Well Control announced that BEARCO International’s personnel would be joining with Wild Well’s well control engineering group, bringing the relief well expertise of John Wright, Jim Woodruff and Bill McElduff on board to enhance Wild Well’s expertise and capabilities in the engineering, planning and execution of relief wells further.

The valve manufacturer Heap & Partners has developed its own range of ‘Phase’ trunnion-mounted ball valves for the UK energy sector, and the use of the Hardide-T coating has significantly improved the valves’ performance.

TGS announced two multi-client geochemical seafloor sampling and seep studies offshore Canada and in the Barents Sea. Sampling locations for both programs were identified using recently acquired multi-client seismic data.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners will invest approximately $54 million to build an interconnect and other facilities for its Kinder Morgan Crude and Condensate (KMCC) pipeline after entering into a long-term transportation agreement with Republic Midstream Marketing, LLC. Republic will build a gathering pipeline from Lavaca County, Texas to the new Interconnection at KMP’s DeWitt Station, near Cuero, Texas.

EPIC is providing project management services for the treatment of 200,000bbls of water and oil emulsion stored in multiple storage tanks on the Polvo FPSO and for converting external ballast tanks back to oil storage tanks.

It has been announced that SunVit Pipeline LLC, Sunoco Pipeline L.P. and ExxonMobil Pipeline Company are starting a bidding open season for a project located in the Permian Longview and Louisiana Extension.

Pipeline services specialist T.D. Williamson (TDW) executed a gas valve upgrade project on a deepwater gas export pipeline offshore New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) for a major operator. Working in a strategic partnership with the operator, TDW provides pipeline pressure isolation services under the terms of a global pipeline isolation and intervention services contract entered into in 2012.