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  • Maritime Developments to Exhibit at Subsea Expo

    2 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    A back-deck equipment provider, Maritime Developments will showcase its fully operational 40-tonne winch and 50-tonne, 4-track tensioner at this year’s Subsea Expo an international exhibition in Aberdeen. The winch will be on the company’s stand, while the tensioner will be at the entrance to the event, which is being staged at the city’s exhibition and conference […]

  • New Members to Strengthen NSRI Board

    21 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Melfort Campbell and Martin Jones have been appointed to strengthen the board of the National Subsea Research Initiative (NSRI). These new board members will help NSRI deliver its aim of bringing new technology to market that will reduce costs and deliver efficiencies. Gordon Drummond, NSRI project director said: “NSRI meets the genuine need for meaningful […]

  • Highlights of the Week

    20 September 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (September 14 – September 20). SURF contractor Ceona has fallen into administration, Ernst & Young (EY) informed Thursday, September 17. Stuart Gardner and Alan Hudson of EY were appointed Joint Administrators of Ceona Holding Limited and Ceona Crewing […]

  • Scientists Conduct Expedition of Atlantis Massif in North Atlantic Ocean

    21 March 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      Scientists recently concluded an expedition aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution to learn more about Atlantis Massif, an undersea mountain, or seamount, that formed in a very different way than the majority of the seafloor in the oceans. Unlike volcanic seamounts, which are made of the basalt that’s typical of most of the seafloor, […]

  • Subsea in September

    7 October 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Subsea World News has gathered all the highlights to bring you a summarized version of the most popular articles from the previous month. The month of September was underlined by the news that SURF contractor Ceona has gone into administration, making over 100 people redundant. We saw companies further adjusting to challenging market, implementing staff cuts and pulling out vessels from operations. Nevertheless, some major contracts have […]

  • Boskalis Subsea Services wraps up Perenco UK contract in North Sea

    31 August 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Boskalis Subsea Services has completed a multi-million-pound contract awarded by Perenco UK to support a pipeline project in the UK’s Southern North Sea basin. One of the firm’s dive support vessels (DSV) the Boka Da Vinci, was mobilised to replace a 29-metre section of pipeline, which delivers hydrocarbons from the NW Bell field to the […]

  • Maritime Developments: Subsea Sector Ready for Tough Challenges

    17 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Derek Smith, CEO at Maritime Developments, has offered his impressions of this year’s Subsea Expo. Europe’s largest annual subsea exhibition and conference broke all records this year with a 23% increase in attendees and 200 exhibitors. “The figures for Subsea Expo 2015 make for impressive reading. Around 6,500 people – up 23% on last year […]

  • Subsea UK gathering subsea businesses to debate challenges

    28 October 2015

    Subsea UK is looking to establish a regional hub in the south of England that will bring together businesses across the subsea supply chain to identify opportunities and debate the challenges. The UK’s subsea industry body explained in the press release on Wednesday that the subsea sector supports around 55,000 jobs and generates £9 billion […]

  • TechnipFMC Back in Black with Q1 EPS of $0.20

    10 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    TechnipFMC has reported first-quarter 2018 profit of $95 million or 20 cents per diluted share. The services major has bounced back in black compared to net loss of close to $19 million same time last year. Adjusted earnings per share for the quarter were 28 cents, excluding charges and credits. Revenues for the quarter were […]

  • ‘Phantom’ volcanoes could hide more North Sea oil and gas

    20 February 2019

    A study by the University of Aberdeen has raised the prospect of new oil and gas finds in the North Sea.

  • Subsea UK: Seminars focusing on the Brazilian and Mexican markets

    28 September 2015

    Industry body Subsea UK will host seminars in Bristol and Plymouth on October 14 & 15 respectively focusing on the Brazilian and Mexican markets. Subsea UK said that expert speakers from UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and UK Export Finance would attend the seminars. In addition, the gathering will include one-to-one clinics and a networking […]

  • Ecology Versus Technology

    19 February 2012

    “I am actually quite worried”, states marine ecologist Marc Lavaleye of the Deep Sea Science & Technology Center in Texel, the Netherlands. He is referring to the consequences to the environment when regarding the deep sea mining developments. Technology is one half of the equation, how do we get to and extract the manganese nodules […]

  • Seabed Mining Needs Monitoring, Says Dr. Charles at STAR Meeting in Fiji

    15 November 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Careful monitoring before, during and after the impending deep seabed mineral mining off the shores of Papua New Guinea will provide the hard data that will guide the responsible deep seabed mining practices of the future. This is the view of Dr Charles (Chuck) Fisher, Professor of Biology, Penn State University USA, who made a […]

  • NPD Wraps Up Seabed Minerals Campaign

    10 September 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has completed data acquisition expedition on the Mohns Ridge in the north-western Norwegian Sea, using the Seabed Constructor vessel. During the four-week expedition, the NPD has made several discoveries of previously unknown sulphide deposits, and collected data covering large areas. These deposits include metals and minerals that are important in […]

  • Possible Eruption of Underwater Volcano Observed

    1 May 2015
    Research & Development

    What appears to be an eruption of Axial Volcano was observed in real time by scientists on April 23, thanks to a set of the instruments installed last summer by the University of Washington to bring the deep sea online. “It was an astonishing experience to see the changes taking place 300 miles away with no one […]

  • Scientists Discover New Class of Hydrothermal System

    24 December 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Southampton have made the first discovery of a new type of hydrothermal vent system in a decade, which should help explain the long observed disconnect between the theoretical rate at which the Earth’s crust is cooling at seafloor spreading ridge flanks, and actual observations. […]

  • USA: Chesapeake Energy Corporation Announces Louis A. Simpson to Join Board of Directors

    24 January 2011

    Chesapeake Energy Corporation today announced that its board of directors has extended an invitation to Louis A. Simpson to join the Chesapeake Board of Directors. Mr. Simpson has accepted Chesapeake’s invitation and will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Mr. Frederick B. Whittemore, the final nonexecutive member of Chesapeake’s 1992 founding board of […]

  • USA: NOAA Names New Assistant Administrator of Research Office

    19 January 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Robert Detrick, Ph.D, a marine geophysicist, was named the new head of NOAA’s research office. Detrick will start as the assistant administrator of the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) on Feb. 13. “The person who heads this office guides the innovative and integral research that is the foundation of all we do […]

  • 3sun Gets GBP 10 Mln to Advance Its Offshore Energy Business

    3 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    BGF (Business Growth Fund), the independent company established to help Britain’s growing businesses, has announced that it has made a £10m investment in energy-focused firm – 3sun Group, a specialist provider of products and services to the global energy industry.   Founded in 2007 by Graham Hacon, 3sun Group operates in the oil and gas onshore […]

  • BGF Invests in 3sun Group (UK)

    3 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    BGF (Business Growth Fund) has made a £10m investment in energy-focused firm 3sun Group, a specialist provider of products and services to the global energy industry. Founded in 2007 by Graham Hacon, 3sun Group operates in the oil and gas onshore and offshore wind sectors. It is an established supplier of control panels for offshore […]

  • GEOMAR Researchers Study ‘Black Smokers’

    24 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    Researchers at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have used computer simulations to understand how hydrothermal vents, the so-called “black smokers”, extract energy from the volcanic rock. About ten years after the first moon landing, scientists on earth made a discovery that proved that our home planet still holds a lot of surprises in store for […]

  • Fiji: Different Seabed Minerals Operations Require Different Responses

    16 January 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Concerns about protecting the environment during exploration and mining for deep seabed minerals will not be addressed by a ‘one size fits all’ solution. Dr Malcolm Clark, Principal Scientist (Deepwater Fisheries) at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Wellington, New Zealand, expressed this opinion during the international workshop on Environmental Management Needs […]

  • BW names third FSRU BW Magna

    11 February 2019
    Vessels

    Singapore-based gas shipping giant BW Group on Monday informed it has named its newbuild FSRU at the South Korean Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME).

  • BW LNG: BW Magna FSRU modification complete

    30 December 2019
    Vessels

    BW LNG, a unit of the Singapore-based gas shipping giant BW Group, said it has completed modification works in Sembcorp Marine Admiralty yard on the FSRU BW Magna. 

  • Highlights of the Week

    31 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (March 26 – April 01). https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/03/26/technipfmc-to-deliver-subsea-systems-for-gumusut-kakap-project/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/03/27/mpsv-ievoli-ivory-marks-jfms-next-ukcs-partnership/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/03/28/gardline-shuts-down-metocean-division/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/03/26/supply-chain-directory-for-uk-decommissioning-sector-released/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/03/27/nord-stream-2-secures-all-construction-permits-in-germany/