About 65 million years ago, an asteroid or comet crashed into a shallow sea near what is now the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. The resulting firestorm and global dust cloud caused the extinction of many land plants and large animals, including most of the dinosaurs. At this week’s meeting of the Amer
GAC EnvironHull, part of global shipping, logistics and marine services provider GAC Group, has launched HullWiper, its new innovation offering diver-free, cost effective and eco-friendly underwater hull cleaning. Despite its compact size of just 3 x 1.5 x 0.80 m, the high-speed, remotely-operated v
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company with its extensive licence areas offshore the Falkland Islands announces that the farm-out with Premier and Rockhopper in connection with the Falkland Islands licences PL004a and PL004c has been completed. As announced on 3 October 2013, FOGL signed heads of
Emerald Networks, a new undersea fibre optic network provider, and TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. Company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, announced that the survey of USA and Ireland territorial waters has commenced. This is a key milestone for enabling the construc
Only five months after RWE Dea’s arrival in Suriname the German company announces the successful completion of a 3D seismic acquisition program in the offshore Licence Block 52. Following the data acquisition, the data will now be processed with the results becoming available for interpretation in t
Trinity, the leading independent E&P company focused on Trinidad and Tobago, announces an oil discovery at its TGAL-1 exploration well within the Galeota license (Trinity 65% operated interest). Highlights · TGAL-1 well drilled to a total depth (“TD”) of 5,694 ft measured depth (“MD”) · Well interse
After two years of construction, the upgraded Royal Australian Navy Diving School and the Submarine and Underwater Medicine Unit (SUMU) were officially opened at a ceremony at HMAS Penguin today. Deputy Chief of Navy Rear Admiral Michael van Balen, was joined by current and former members of the Nav
Australian energy company WHL Energy Limited (“WHL Energy” or “the Company”) reports that the La Bella 3D seismic survey, being acquired by CGG’s state-of-the-art seismic vessel Viking II, is 78% complete and on target to be completed around December 12th. To date 52 prime lines of a planned total o
Statoil ASA has together with its partners Eni Norge AS and Petoro AS made an oil and gas discovery in the Skavl prospect in PL532, close to Johan Castberg in the Barents Sea. Well 7220/7-2 S, drilled by the rig West Hercules, has proven a 22 metre gas column and a 23 m oil column […]
NOAA and its federal and state trustee partners urged the public to provide comments on a draft plan to restore the Gulf after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The plan outlines and describes 44 proposed restoration projects, totaling approximately $627 million. The plan was released by the Nat
TGS has commenced acquisition of a 3D multi-client seismic survey covering 2,022 km2 offshore Benin. “The BR-13 survey will be TGS’ second 3D survey in Benin,” commented Stein Ove Isaksen, Senior Vice President Eastern Hemisphere for TGS. “The 3D data will build upon current subsurface knowledge and
“We are not considering any other solutions for the Johan Sverdrup field than land-based power supply,” says Øyvind Reinertsen, senior vice president for the Johan Sverdrup field. “The project and the licensees based their concept assessment on power supply from land at an early stage, and we have n
OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A. (“OGX”) announced that it had begun, yesterday, the production in the Tubarão Martelo field, located in the BM-C-39 and BM-C-40 blocks, through the horizontal well TBMT-8H. In November 29, 2013 the Company received the Operating License from IBAMA (the Brazilian
Atlantic Petroleum announces that the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has advised the Blackbird Field joint venture partners that it has approved the Blackbird Field Development Plan (FDP) Addendum. The Blackbird Field is owned by Nexen Petroleum U.K. Limited (Operator) 73.02957%,
