The Chief Coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC), Judith Zielke, together with the Program Director, Operational Search for MH370 of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), Peter Foley, provided a technical briefing regarding the search for MH370. According to their statem
Norwegian seismic contractor, Dolphin Geophysical, has formally accepted the Letter of Award to perform two major 3D seismic projects in India. The contracts were previously announced by Dolphin in press release dated 17 October. The announcement was made in a public bid opening ceremony in Mumbai b
Subsea Innovation has appointed Dave Thompson as Technical Director. The company which designs & manufactures specialist engineering products to off shore oil, gas and renewable industries worldwide has made the appointment on the back of a sustained period of growth. Thompson, 43, from Washington,
Mermaid Maritime, a provider of subsea and drilling services to the offshore oil and gas industry, has recorded a profit of $45.3 million for the financial year ended September 30, 2014. Compared to the last year, the Group’s net profit tripled from $15.4 million. Mermaid generated revenues of $313
Seabox together with oil majors has highlighted the technical feasibility of a submerged water treatment plant capable of producing low sulphate and low salinity water that will benefit the oil industry. Seabox will lead a Joint Industry Project (JIP) with Az ACG Ltd (The State Oil Company of the Az
Working in conjunction with Salvesen UK, Seaflex deployed 230t of buoyancy from its office in The Isle of Wight to the operation of re-floating of the only surviving landing craft from D-Day 1944 in Birkenhead Docks Liverpool. Ben Board, Technical Site Support Manager at Unique Seaflex commented, “I
Balfour Beatty Investments Limited has been chosen to operate the offshore transmission system of the Thanet wind farm. Ofgem has determined to grant an offshore transmission licence to Thanet OFTO Limited, which is the proposed licensee entity incorporated by Balfour Beatty Investments Limited, the
Balfour Beatty Investments Limited has been chosen to operate the offshore transmission system of the Thanet wind farm. Ofgem has determined to grant an offshore transmission licence to Thanet OFTO Limited, which is the proposed licensee entity incorporated by Balfour Beatty Investments Limited, the
Pondera Consult and Arcadis consortium were given the go-ahead to prepare EIA and permit application for the first Dutch offshore grid connection. Pondera Consult, together with Arcadis, has been asked by TenneT (TSO) to support the entire EIA process for the offshore grid connection of offshore win
Partrac Ltd has recently completed contaminated sediments survey for the SPAWAR (Space and Naval Warfare) Systems Centre Pacific in San Diego. The study is being undertaken under a grant funded by the US Department of Defense (DoD) ESTCP programme. This is the DoD’s environmental technology demonstr
As a part of the plan to restructure business activities in Asia Pacific, PGS has decided to relocate its regional headquarters from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur (KL). PGS believes that this move will result in consolidation and centralization of resources and lead to improved competitive advantage and
IHC Hydrohammer, a business unit of the Dutch based Royal IHC, has recently commissioned the S-1800 Hydrohammer with 5.5m Pile Guiding for the Chinese Offshore Wind market. Jiangsu Longyuan Zhenhua Marine Engineering, a joint venture between ZPMC and Longyuan, is using the S-1800 hydraulic piling ha
Norwegian geophysical company, Magseis, said that the third quarter results have been negatively impacted by an extended yard stay which reduced revenues by $1.5 million as well as lower than expected production speeds. A breakdown of the rudder forced the vessel into dock and led to the vessel bein
After more than seven years of planning and design, the project is entering the construction phase for the first 6MW tranche of capacity in what is believed to be the world’s largest planned tidal stream project. The financing package has been agreed for the first four turbines, and the project ente
