Drilling risers extend from the BOP to the drilling vessel with their primary function being the provision of fluid transfer between the well and the drilling vessel while supporting the choke, kill and auxiliary lines. The riser is also used to guide tools into the well...
Flexible pipe and umbilicals require the use of distributed buoyancy modules to reduce topside or tension loads or to help achieve particular configurations such as ‘Lazy wave’, ‘Steep wave’ or ‘W wave’...
Reports circulating in the industry predict that in excess of 650 new work class ROVs will be required to meet industry demands over the next five years...
To protect an object lying on the seabed – such as a flowline – any impact energy must be deflected, reflected, absorbed or spread over a large area...
Water depths, seabed conditions, high pressures and high temperatures are all factors that need to be considered when designing systems for deep and ultra-deepwater fields...
The test centre at Balmoral Park is fully equipped to provide a comprehensive range of laboratory, hydrostatic and mechanical test services on surface and subsurface products...
As part of the Block 17 Angola project, a requirement arose to secure a number of small bore hydraulic lines and control cables to a series of spool pipes...
Subsea UK commissioned a large-scale portable aquarium to highlight subsea technologies and has used it at a number of events since its ‘Energise your Future’ debut in June 2008...
Graham Adair has been appointed to the position of business development manager with BOE and Bob Haley has joined the company as business development manager for the US and Gulf of Mexico...
Three postgraduate students at The Robert Gordon University's Aberdeen Business School (ABS) are the first to benefit from an annual Balmoral Offshore Engineering MSc Project Management sponsorship prize...
