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  • Researchers Study Shipwreck near Cape Henlopen, USA

    15 August 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    University of Delaware researchers have discovered that a shipwreck near the coast of Cape Henlopen is a 215-footlong sailing vessel destroyed by a hurricane more than a century ago. Scientific surveys and historical records indicate that the wreck is the W.R. Grace, a three-masted ship that ran aground during a hurricane on Sept. 12, 1889. […]

  • Falkland Islands: Rockhopper Exploration plc Operational Update – Sea Lion 14/10

    13 October 2010
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Rockhopper Exploration plc , the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company is providing an update on a number of operational and strategic developments since its AGM on 30th September 2010. Exploration The recent successful flow test at Sea Lion has validated the potential for commercial oil in the North Falkland basin and has […]

  • ADX Energy Limited Spuds Lambouka-1 Exploration Well Offshore Tunisia

    12 July 2010

    ADX Energy Ltd  announces that on the 11th of July 2010 at 11.40 am GMT the Atwood Southern Cross semisubmersible drilling rig spudded the Lambouka-1 well in the ADX operated Kerkouane license in the Sicily Channel area offshore Tunisia. Current operations are drilling a 36 inch surface hole to casing depth, following which 30 inch […]

  • UK: GE Successfully Tests Superconducting Technology for Next Generation Power Generation

    4 April 2013
    Research & Development, Technology

    GE’s Power Conversion business has taken an important step in testing a viable way of producing large amounts of electricity from renewable resources using superconductors running at relatively high temperatures. The company has successfully completed trials of Hydrogenie, a power generator incorporating ground breaking technologies that enable highly efficient production of electricity in a small […]

  • Shelf Drilling’s backlog reaches $2.1 billion with 33 out of 36 rigs busy with work

    19 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Shelf Drilling has pushed its total contract backlog to $2.1 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2024.

  • Russia: Nevskiy Shipyard Launches Dry Cargo Vessel “Neva Leader 2”

    29 June 2012

    Nevskiy Shipyard launched on 26.06.2012 the second 7150 t deadweight multipurpose dry cargo vessel “Neva_Leader 2” of RSD49 prj. Customer is of OJSC “Western Shipping Company” (Albert Vygovskiy is an executive director). Vessel’s project (RSD49) was designed by the Marine Engineering Bureau (MEB). Vessels of RSD49 prj. belong to so-called “Volga-Don Max” type due to […]

  • UK: The Underwater Centre Announces Important New Appointment

    31 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Globally-recognised and highly respected commercial diver and ROV training facility, The Underwater Centre, has made a senior appointment to further strengthen links between the Centre and the offshore industry. James Ridgeway – formerly Subsea Training Manager at the National Hyperbaric Centre in Aberdeen – has been appointed Training Operations Manager at the Fort William facility. […]

  • Tunisia: ADX Energy Limited Lambouka-1 Well Operations Update

    27 July 2010
    Project & Tenders

    ADX Energy Limited  reports on Lambouka-1 Well operations update Activities during past week: Following the resolution of rig power supply issues reported in the previous update, a final wiper trip of 26″ hole was conducted, then 20″ casing was run and cemented to a depth of 922m. All rig anchors were successfully tested to full […]

  • Tunisia: Lambouka-1 Well – Operations Update #1

    13 July 2010
    Project & Tenders

    Since arrival at ADX Energy Limited Lambouka-1 well location on July 2, the Southern Cross Semi Submersible drilling rig was positioned and anchored. Equipment and materials were offloaded then readied in preparation for Spud. The well was spudded 11:40 GMT on July 11 and successfully drilled the 36″ hole section to a subsea depth of […]

  • Wärtsilä powers Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas

    27 October 2009

    At the heart of Oasis of the Seas, the world’s largest passenger vessel, beneath an original carousel, an array of restaurants, surfing simulators, rock-climbing walls, a tropical living park and guests and crew on board, are two sets of three Wärtsilä engines, powering everything on the ship. Today, STX Europe’s shipyard in Turku, Finland will […]

  • Tunisia: ADX Energy Limited Provides Lambouka Operations Update

    24 August 2010
    Project & Tenders

    ADX Energy Limited reports on Lambouka-1 Well operations update. Activities during the past week The 12 1/4″ hole section was successfully drilled to a total depth of 2,216m. The 9 5/8″ casing string has been run and cemented. The riser seal assembly and the BOP (blow out preventer) has been successfully pressure tested ahead of […]

  • Tunisia: ADX Energy Limited Lambouka-1 Well Operations Update

    10 August 2010
    Project & Tenders

    ADX Energy Limited  reports on Lambouka-1 Well operations update. Activities during past week The 16″ hole section was successfully drilled to a total depth of 1,476 meters MD. This section of the well was deepened from the originally planned 1341m in order to set casing in a competent shale formation thereby ensuring the integrity of […]

  • OceanGate Dives in GoM

    24 October 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    OceanGate Inc. (OGI), a global provider of deep-sea manned submersible solutions, has completed a series of dives in the Gulf of Mexico to observe the ecological impact of decommissioned oil platforms on ocean life using the 5-person manned submersible Antipodes. This expedition was part of an initial study related to the “Rigs to Reefs” program, […]

  • NaiKun Wind Releases First Quarter Financial Results (Canada)

    14 February 2011
    Business & Finance

    NaiKun Wind Energy Group Inc. (TSX-Venture: NKW) today announced its financial results for the three months ended December 31, 2010, a fiscal period during which the Company realized the full impact of its restructuring and continued to progress the new strategies it began during the last quarter of fiscal 2010, all in an effort to […]

  • Multi-Rotor Turbines

    11 May 2020
    Innovation

    The idea of large-scale multi-rotor turbines with two or more rotors atop a single support structure has inspired inventors since the 1920s. Current renewed interest in multi-rotor technology has a strong focus within large-scale offshore. Innovative product announcements and developments up until 2017 cover especially horizontal-axis turbines for bottom-fixed foundations as well as floating wind […]

  • Tunisia: ADX Energy Experiences Difficulties on Lambouka Well

    3 August 2010

    Progress during the week was delayed due to 53 hours of bad weather preventing the installation of the Blow Out Preventer (“BOP”) on the well head located on the sea floor. Further difficulties were experienced when trying to latch the BOP onto the wellhead. Modifications of the BOP to wellhead connection were necessary. The BOP […]

  • Students Construct Human-Powered Submarine

    16 July 2014

    For the fourth time a student team of the Delft University of Technology is building a human-powered submarine, to perform in an international race. This year the design of WASUB 4, as the submarine is called, was inspired by sharks and aerodynamics, in the hope this will bring them the grand prize in England. The […]

  • CMA CGM Implements Leading Edge Technology (France)

    13 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    To mark a week celebrating sustainable development initiatives in France, CMA CGM, the world’s third largest container shipping company and number one in France, reaffirms its long standing commitment to global environmental policy defined by Jacques R. Saadé, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CMA CGM Group. The battle against climate change, the preservation […]

  • Last Expedition to NOAA’s Undersea Laboratory Starts Next Week (USA)

    12 July 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      Professor Mark Patterson of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science will next week team with National Geographic’s Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Sylvia Earle on what could be the last expedition to NOAA’s Aquarius Undersea Laboratory, the world’s only underwater research station. Their weeklong mission is a celebration of 50 years of human habitation of the ocean […]

  • Together we Strengthen Safety

    11 April 2012

    Being a professional diver entails diverse work. A diver could work in an aquarium, within the offshore or inshore industries, within the military or as a customs, salvage or police diver. It is a dedicated profession that, without the correct training, cannot be done. A structured and high-quality professional diver training offer is demanded by […]

  • USA: MBARI Researchers Develop Device for Measuring Respiration of Deep-Sea Animals

    2 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Mountain climbers know that changes in temperature and pressure can affect their energy level and their ability to breathe. Animals that live in the deep sea face similar challenges when scientists bring them to the surface for study. To address this problem, MBARI researchers have developed a new instrument that allows them to study the […]

  • Royal Naval Reservists Join Diving Training Weekend

    4 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Six Royal Naval Reservists plunged into the waters of the diving training lake at the Navy’s Horsea Island training site, swimming across the lake, completing a timed set of circuits and leaping several times from the highest platform (over 30 feet) into the water, clutching their fins to their chests. The reservists were conducting pre-joining […]

  • Fiscal 2013 Budget for USACE’s Civil Works Presented (USA)

    14 February 2012

      The President’s Budget for fiscal year 2013 (FY13) includes $4.731 billion in discretionary funding for the Civil Works program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The Honorable Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, said, “The fiscal 2013 Civil Works budget for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reflects […]

  • Boskalis’ vessel hijack in E. Guinea an act of Nigerian pirates

    8 May 2019

    “It doesn’t matter if it’s a kidnapping from a fishing vessel off the Bakassi peninsula in Cameroon, or a tanker off Abidjan, Ivory Coast – it’s typically Nigerian pirate groups conducting these attacks.”

  • Fiscal 2014 Budget for Army Corps’ Civil Works Released (USA)

    11 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    The President’s Budget for fiscal 2014 (FY14) includes $4.826 billion in gross discretionary funding for the Civil Works program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), which is offset in part by a proposal to cancel $100 million in unobligated carryover of funding appropriated prior to fiscal year 2013. “The fiscal 2014 Civil Works […]