A successful partnership between Hydroid Inc. (a KONGSBERG company) and Kongsberg GeoAcoustics has produced the first high-definition images of two WWII U.S. Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs) that lie off the coast of South Devon, UK. The vessels were sunk on April 28, 1944 by German torpedo boats that inte
Today Australia, Malaysia and China announced the search area in the southern Indian Ocean, which represents the highest priority for future search efforts for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. An expert satellite working group has reviewed all existing information in order to define a search
Tap Oil Limited provided an update on the Manora oil development project in the Northern Gulf of Thailand (TAP 30% interest). Mubadala Petroleum, the operator of the Manora joint venture, continues to advise that the project is on schedule for commencement of production in late Q3 2014 and that rece
Ophir Energy plc has announced that drilling operations have now ended on the Okala-1 well in the Mbeli Block offshore Gabon. Ophir has a 50% net operated interest. The well was drilled by the Vantage Titanium Explorer drillship to a depth of 4,229m MD targeting Cretaceous sands in the pre-salt sect
Nautilus Minerals Inc. has announced that the assembly of its third and final Seafloor Production Tool (SPT), the Auxiliary Cutter (AC), has this week begun at Soil Machine Dynamics’ (SMD) facility at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Nautilus’ CEO, Mike Johnston, said: “We are pleased that the assembly of t
Following the recent brand transition of Transfield Worley (TW) Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the WorleyParsons Group to become WorleyParsons New Zealand Ltd, INTECSEA has taken the opportunity to expand its presence into New Zealand. This expansion is a key step in delivering the global strateg
HARKAND, a global name in subsea inspection, repair and maintenance, and light construction, has secured a long term lease for a storage facility in Montrose, giving the company its first permanent work base in the town to support ongoing operations. The site is located on Rossie Island close to the
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project has today celebrated its most significant construction milestone to date after officially marking 50 per cent completion. Likened to three mega-projects in one, Ichthys includes an offshore project with subsea facilities and two large floating platforms (centra
After a year of engineering, constructing and testing of equipment, the impressive Surveyor Interceptor is taking form at Kystdesign AS. The Surveyor Interceptor is a specialised fast underwater survey platform, capable of 8 knots while recording highest resolution Bathymetry, Lidar and High Resolut
A key milestone to replace one of three subsea cables under the Solent, supplying the Isle of Wight with electricity, has been successfully completed. The £14 million deep sea bed cable installation project is being delivered by a specialist joint venture between VolkerInfra and VSMC and awarded by
RES Offshore announces that applications made on behalf of Argyll Tidal Ltd to Marine Scotland and Argyll & Bute Council have recently been approved. The marine license and planning consent allows for the installation of a single, up to 500kW, demonstration tidal device off the Mull of Kintyre, a pr
Nautricity Ltd. and Fundy Tidal Inc. have signed an MOU to develop a 500kW tidal project in Nova Scotia, Canada’s Petit Passage. Nautricity is completing system testing of its CoRMaT and Hydro-buoy technologies at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) off the Orkney Islands in Scotland. The proje
TGS will start the acquisition of a new multi-year, multi-client 2D program offshore Northeast Greenland. The project will be fulfilled over a maximum of four seasons, bringing TGS’ total multi-client database in Northeast Greenland to more than 36,000 km. Data acquisition for the first season will
KrisEnergy Ltd., an independent upstream oil and gas company, announces that the Atwood Orca jack-up rig has started the drilling of the Rojana-A exploration commitment well in block G11/48 in the Gulf of Thailand, where the joint-venture partners are developing the Nong Yao oil field. Water depth a
