Tag: Offshore
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EDS and SPE host joint oil/gas desalination workshop
The European Desalination Society is joining the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) to present a joint workshop on Desalination in the Oil and Gas Industry.
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Vapour compression desalination plants for Indian oilfield
Texas-based MECO, which supplies desalination equipment to the offshore, pharmaceutical and military sectors, announced in December 2011 that it would be designing and constructing two vapour compression (VC) desalination plants for an oilfield off the Indian coast.
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Koreans devoting R&D cash to gas-hydrate desalination
Korea’s Minister of Land, Transport & Maritime Affairs, Kwon Do-youp, unveiled “a new paradigm” in desalination development when he announced on 4 October 2011 that Korea was pursuing gas-hydrate desalination.
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Israel planning offshore desalination plants – report
Israel’s Water Authority is planning a series of desalination plants on offshore islands because of difficulties in finding suitable onshore sites, says a report on Haaretz.com.
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Westgarth wins another offshore SWRO contract
VWS Westgarth has been awarded a contract by SBM Inc for the design, procurement and supply of equipment and provision of construction technical assistance for a single lift module seawater sulphate reduction package (SRP) system for SBM’s existing installation, FPSO (Floating Production, Storage & Offloading vessel) Xikomba off Angola.
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Ministry updates India’s low-temperature desalination plans
India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences (MES) released an update on 29 August 2011 about its program for development of Low Temperature Thermal Desalination (LTTD).
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Water Standard finds its shipbuilder in Samsung
Texas-based Water Standard and Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries announced an agreement on 28 June 2011 to collaborate on the design and development of vessels to deliver water treatment solutions to the offshore oil and gas sector.
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Adelaide first water at end of July, says minister
The intake and outfall tunnels for Adelaide’s Aus$ 1.83 billion (US$ 2 billion) seawater desalination plant in Australia have been completed and first water is expected at the end of July.
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VWS Westgarth bags Angolan offshore UF/SRP contract
A multimillion dollar contract for design, supply and delivery of an ultrafiltration (UF) system and a sulphate-removal package (SRP) for offshore oilfield exploration in Angola has been won by UK-based VWS Westgarth, a subsidiary of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies.
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Seafront lab for Indian desalination research
A desalination research laboratory is to be part of a seafront research facility to be set up in the Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh by India’s National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.