News : subsea

Highly specialised welding and complementary services such as fabrication, machining, corrosion protection and NDT in the oil & gas sector are available to meet the diverse needs of equipment suppliers manufacturing a range of components from pipelines and flanges to risers and pigging systems.
However, finding all, or even a few, of these disciplines from a single-source supplier is rare as the need for an...

Weld overlay cladding and fabrication specialist Arc Energy Resources has recently completed the coating of three large Quench Valves for a major offshore oil & gas installation.
The directional quench valves, which weigh approximately three tonnes, were delivered to Arc Energy’s Gloucestershire facility, as pre-machined body castings. In order to combat the combined erosion and corrosion attack from an...

Weld overlay cladding and fabrication specialist Arc Energy Resources has appointed Cliff Hall as Sales Engineer. Cliff, who has more than ten years’ engineering experience in the machine tool and laser profiling industries, will initially focus on developing Arc Energy’s close relationships with existing customers in the oil & gas, nuclear, marine and process industries.

After six years as Finance Manager with (Gloucestershire/Eastington-based) weld overlay cladding and fabrication specialist Arc Energy Resources, Rachel Chatterton has moved from the office to the factory floor to take on the important role of Production Manager.
Rachel says she was inspired to apply for the position by the prospect of developing the potential of the young people in the Arc Energy workshop...

Arc Energy Resources has successfully completed a contract to carry out its highly specialised welding and fabrication services on a pig launcher and retrieval system (PLR) destined for a time-critical application in the Cascade Chinook oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico, where operator Petrobras is laying an additional subsea pipeline to increase production.
The contract, for the subsea division of Vector...

Norwegian subsea entrepreneur Ocean Installer and leading offshore engineering and construction company McDermott have established an exclusive alliance to jointly meet customers’ increasing rigid pipelay needs in the North Sea subsea market.
The alliance marks McDermott’s re-entry into the North Sea and establishes Ocean Installer as a tier one North Sea contractor by adding rigid pipelay to the company’s...

Arc Energy Resources, a leading supplier of weld overlay cladding and high quality fabrications, has expanded its client support team with the appointment of Mark Farrell as a Project Manager.
Mark, who has a degree in mechanical engineering, brings ten years project management experience in the offshore oil and gas industry, having worked for a manufacturer of pipeline components for subsea installations; and...