788 results found for 'undersea cables'

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  • Noble Energy: Leviathan can’t wait

    3 September 2015

    Noble Energy, a U.S.-based oil and gas company, has called the government of Israel to act quickly and enable a quick development of Noble’s offshore gas fields, the Leviathan and Tamar. David L. Stover, Noble Energy’s Chairman, President and CEO, said: “Under the leadership of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Energy and Water […]

  • LR, Keppel team up to advance semi-sub designs

    13 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Maritime classification society Lloyd’s Register and Singaporean shipyard Keppel have joined forces in a bid to improve safety and performance of new semi-submersible designs. The undertaking, which will be co-funded by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, will make use of LR’s ‘NewWave’ simulation tool and Keppel’s in-house semi-submersible model test data to develop the ‘Numerical […]

  • SmartBay Subsea Observatory Sheds New Light on Marine Environment

    9 December 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Researchers from the INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University are currently using many years’ worth of video footage recorded at the SmartBay subsea observatory to enable better understanding of the marine environment. Utilizing a subsea observatory deployed and managed by SmartBay Ireland and the Marine Institute, the project investigates how modern computer […]

  • Northern Lights CCS project grabs a slice of EU funding

    8 December 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Storage, Transition, Vision

    The European Commission (EC) has awarded €131 million for the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) project under its Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) funding scheme. A total of eight cross-border energy infrastructure projects are getting a part of the EU funds. EU Member States have endorsed the EC’s proposal to invest €594 million of EU funds […]

  • PSA aims to improve well safety on NCS

    13 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Petroleum Safety Authority Norway reports that wells which are left temporarily abandoned year after year represent a safety challenge on the NCS. The regulations have now been tightened up. Exploration wells must be permanently plugged after no more than two years, according to new regulatory requirements which came into force this year. Furthermore, production wells […]

  • Oil Flows from Shell’s Gumusut-Kakap Project

    8 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Shell has started oil production from the Gumusut-Kakap floating platform off the coast of Malaysia, the latest in a series of Shell deep-water projects. The Gumusut-Kakap field is located in waters up to 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) deep. The platform is expected to reach an annual peak oil production of around 135,000 barrels a day, […]

  • 2M Damaging to World Trade, European Shippers Say

    24 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    The European Shippers Council (ESC) has pulled the alarm bell about the excesses that could be caused by the Vessel Sharing Agreement (VSA) between Maersk and MSC. In a letter sent to the US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) last week, ESC said that the “operators might set up an extremely damaging situation to world trade.” FMC has […]

  • BBC Chartering Introduces Euro-Asia Service

    20 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    Leading German multipurpose and heavy lift operator BBC Chartering announces the introduction of a new liner service connecting Europe and Asia. The line offers bi-weekly sailings to Asia and departs every three weeks to Europe. The new service is marketed under the name “BBC Euro-Asia Express Line” and calls loading ports Rauma (Finland), Kristiansand (Norway), […]

  • Wind Power — Even without the Wind (USA)

    28 April 2013
    Research & Development, Technology

    Innovative storage system could enable offshore wind farms to deliver power whenever it’s needed.    Written by David L. Chandler, MIT News Offshore wind could provide abundant electricity — but as with solar energy, this power supply can be intermittent and unpredictable. But a new approach from researchers at MIT could mitigate that problem, allowing the […]

  • Norway: Minister Opens New Research Park at Vestfold University College

    25 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    By using one of KONGSBERGS simulators Norwegian minister of Trade and Industry Trond Giske got to learn how to work on a PGS – Petroleum Geo-Services seismic vessel. Friday morning the minister opened the new research park at Vestfold University College in Norway. Sonja Gundersen from Kongsberg Maritime explained how PGS work deck crew use […]

  • Norwegian Trade Minister Opens Research Park at Vestfold University College

    24 September 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    By using one of KONGSBERGS simulators Norwegian minister of Trade and Industry Trond Giske got to learn how to work on a PGS – Petroleum Geo-Services seismic vessel. Friday morning the minister opened the new research park at Vestfold University College. Sonja Gundersen from Kongsberg Maritime explained how PGS work deck crew use the so-called […]

  • University of Michigan picks Beaver Island for wave energy study

    10 July 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Selecting the optimal site will be a step toward providing Beaver Island with clean, reliable energy and will enhance the team’s chances for future funding, said the University of Michigan.

  • MPS, Hunger Hydraulic in WaveSub Equipment Supply Deal

    14 July 2016
    Equipment

    Marine Power Systems (MPS), a Swansea-based company, has signed a contract with Hunger Hydraulic UK for the supply of hydraulic cylinders and seals for its WaveSub device. Hunger Hydraulic is providing MPS with hydraulic cylinders for the WaveSub’ power take off system. In addition, Hunger Hydraulic have the potential to provide MPS with cylinders for the […]

  • WHOI Releases Report About Impact of Sonar to Whale Strandings (USA)

    17 March 2011
    Research & Development

      Scientists have long been aware of a link between naval sonar exercises and unusual mass strandings of beaked whales. Evidence of such a link triggered a series of lawsuits in which environmental groups sued the U.S.Navy to limit sonar exercises to reduce risk to whales. In 2008, this conflict rose to the level of […]

  • Shipping Should Not Be Included in EU Emissions Trading System?

    25 October 2017

    As the European Parliament and the EU Member States have not yet reached an agreement regarding the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), European shipping is therefore at risk of being subject to unilateral EU regulation rather than supporting the global process, Danish Shipping said.  It was not possible to reach political consensus on an […]

  • VIDEO: Wreck of Musashi Battleship Found

    4 March 2015
    Research & Development

    Paul G. Allen, a philanthropist and entrepreneur, has reportedly located the wreck of Musashi, a Japanese WWII battleship. Allen and his team of researchers began their search for the Musashi more than eight years ago. Using historical records from four countries, detailed undersea topographical data and advanced technology aboard his yacht, M/Y Octopus, Allen and his team […]

  • Norway: DNV to Demonstrate Potential of Sesam SurveySimulator (VIDEO)

    7 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    DNV’s training simulator is designed to demonstrate thousands of potential vessel defects with real life accuracy, and it is now available on laptop with special training programmes developed to suit inspectors, seafarers and technical managers. The potential of Sesam SurveySimulator will be demonstrated in DNV’s 2013 Fire Safety Awareness Campaign. The Sesam SurveySimulator uses virtual […]

  • Seabourn Doubles Its Trust in Fincantieri

    1 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri is going to build a second ultra-luxury ship for Seattle-based cruise line Seabourn Cruise Line. Namely, Seabourn has exercised option for the second vessel,  which will be a sister ship to the newbuild announced earlier this year, scheduled for delivery in late 2016. The most recent newbuild is scheduled to join the company’s […]

  • Geo Plus to Put into Service Its New Sustainable Survey Ship (The Netherlands)

    22 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    Survey company Geo Plus will soon be putting into service its brand new survey ship Geo Focus. This innovative, hybrid ship will be officially christened on 23 June. The 35 metre long Geo Focus, which Geo Plus commissioned, was developed through a collaboration between Studio Yacht and De Haas Maassluis shipyard. The ship is equipped […]

  • Geo Plus Introduces Hybrid Survey Ship Geo Focus (The Netherlands)

    22 June 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Survey company Geo Plus will soon be putting into service its brand new survey ship Geo Focus. This innovative, hybrid ship will be officially christened on 23 June. The 35 metre long Geo Focus, which Geo Plus commissioned, was developed through a collaboration between Studio Yacht and De Haas Maassluis shipyard. The ship is equipped […]

  • USA: MBARI Researchers Announce Expedition in Gulf of California

    6 February 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Luminous jellies and mysterious squid that inhabit a world of almost no light or oxygen; undersea volcanoes, hydrothermal vents, and earthquake faults; layers of natural gas frozen into an ice-like solid in the seafloor. All these can be found in the depths of the Gulf of California, the 1,100-kilometer-long (700-mile-long) finger of water between the […]

  • EU wants to demonstrate zero-emission ships by 2030

    8 September 2021
    Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition, Vessels, Vision

    The partnership board of the Zero-Emission Waterborne Transport has adopted a strategy which will enable Europe to demonstrate deployable zero-emission maritime and inland ships by 2030.

  • Denmark Based Erria AS Becomes Intellocorp’s Client

    10 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    Intellocorp, LLC, a company that provides easy to use, yet highly-sophisticated software solutions for the maritime shipping industry, recently announced that Erria A/S, a Denmark-headquartered global service provider of maritime transportation solutions, which manages a fleet of 43 ships, has become their newest client. “We choose Intellocorp as they have a vast knowledge and understanding […]

  • Scotland: Vattenfall to Conduct Environmental Assessment for Ocean Energy

    23 March 2012
    Authorities & Government

    Monitoring the environment at sea in a region where waves are usually some five metres high is obviously challenging. That is what Vattenfall plans to do off the coast of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, the site of the company’s first wave-energy farm. The location for the wave energy farm was chosen because of the […]

  • UK: Vattenfall Conducts Environmental Surveys for Wave Energy Project

    23 March 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Monitoring the environment at sea in a region where waves are usually some five metres high is obviously challenging. That is what Vattenfall plans to do off the coast of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, the site of the company’s first wave-energy farm. The location for the wave energy farm was chosen because of the […]