GTT’s Mark III cargo containment system has been further developed to reduce the boil-off rate from LNG carriers by one third. DNV is the first class society to qualify this new GTT technology called Mark III FLEX. Mark III is GTT’s well-established containment system. This has now been further deve
Tag Pacific Limited today announced that its subsidiary MPower had been awarded a second contract for Inpex’s world-class Ichthys gas project in the Browse Basin off the north-west coast of Western Australia. MPower has been awarded its latest contract by Korean-based Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine En
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has granted AS Norske Shell consent to use Ormen Lange subsea template C with associated pipelines. The consent includes use of Ormen Lange subsea template C and manifold with associated intra-field pipelines,intrafield umbilical and pipeline end modules.
Today Xanthus Energy is announcing a fully functional 100m high meteorological masts offshore in water from depths up to 60m for £2,000,000; and that’s installed and transmitting. However the benefits offered by Xanthus do not stop there; Sea Met is based on tried and tested buoyant gravity base des
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a five-year charter for use of the Cade Candies, a multi-service subsea support vessel owned by Otto Candies LLC. The charter is expected to commence during the second quarter of 2013. This state-of-the-art, U.S. flagged vessel
Ravestein B.V. has been awarded the contract for the design and construction of a backhoe dredger type Ravestein 900B for Jan De Nul Group. The vessel will be delivered in January 2014. This will be the second contract for building a Ravestein 900B in short time, after successful delivery of the bac
A new moulded PIR pipeline cryogenic insulation whose performance qualities mean that fewer contraction joints are needed is now available from Hertel, the specialist installers of LNG insulation. Cetrafoam is a 50 kg/m3 rigid, closed cell foam, which is formulated to operate from 120c to -200c, has
The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, an Aleut tribal non-profit organization, has received funds to commence tidal research in False Pass, at the end of the Alaska Peninsula. The project that explores the potential power of ocean currents has been granted $200,000 of the Department of Energy f
Schlumberger introduced the Saturn 3D radial probe as the newest module for the MDT modular formation dynamics tester. With the Saturn probe, customers can now obtain pressure measurements and fluid samples where they were not previously possible due to reservoir conditions. “Customers expect Schlum
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, announces that it has received Purchase Orders worth £1.15 million from Talisman Energy Inc. (‘Talisman’), an independent upstream oil an
The U.S. Navy will soon receive a sonar-based underwater navigation system that will enable submarines and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to maintain position underwater safely by following known ocean-floor terrain features. According to Militaryaerospace.com, the designers of this technology,
Schlumberger on Friday introduced the Saturn 3D radial probe as the newest module for the MDT modular formation dynamics tester. With the Saturn probe, customers can now obtain pressure measurements and fluid samples where they were not previously possible due to reservoir conditions. “Customers exp
Global offshore positioning specialist Veripos has introduced a new inertially-aided solution for dynamically positioned vessels combining latest GNSS positioning technology advances with high integrity inertial measurements for enhanced and more reliable positioning performance, Verify Axiom. Devel
Integrated solutions to reduce the cost of remote ocean surveillance will be presented by Sonardyne on booth 1706 at this month’s Oceans ’12 conference and exhibition, running from 14th-19th October in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Sonardyne will be using Oceans ’12 to showcase Fetch, it’s long-life seab
