Statoil has decided to postpone resuming production at the Njord field in the Norwegian Sea after completing a turnaround. Reinforcements are needed to the platform structure before production can resume. Extensive analysis and inspection work carried out during the shutdown this summer has revealed
Alcatel-Lucent and Asia America Gateway, the cable system owned by a consortium of operators, have reaffirmed their cooperation with the signature of a contract to upgrade the Asia America Gateway (AAG) submarine cable system, covering the route from Philippines to the United States. By leveraging A
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas group focused on oil and gas exploration and production in the Atlantic margin, Norway and the North Sea, announces its unaudited Interim Results for the six months ended 30 June 2013. The Company reports Revenue at £89.0million (1H2012: £90.6million) and
Sea Training Staff from the Australian Mine Warfare and Clearance Diving Task Group have completed the first deployed assessment of the Royal Australian Navy’s Under Water Damage Repair Capability in Cairns. Ten Clearance Divers from Australian Clearance Diving Team Four (AUSCDT FOUR) deployed from
Suncor Energy reports it has begun its planned maintenance program on the Terra Nova Floating Production, Storage and Offloading facility (FPSO), located approximately 350 kilometres southeast of St. John’s, N.L, Canada. The planned maintenance program is expected to last approximately 11 weeks. As
Statoil Canada and co-venturer Husky Energy have announced that the first Bay du Nord exploration well has discovered between 300 and 600 million barrels of oil recoverable. The Bay du Nord discovery, located approximately 500 kilometres northeast of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, wa
Rhode Island’s State Properties Committee is to examine Deepwater Wind’s request for connecting an offshore wind farm to the grid through Scarborough State Beach, the Providence Journal reports. The company decided to go with burying the cable at the state beach after a strong opposition emerged ove
IBERDROLA INGENIERÍA, in partnership with the Swedish company CorPower Ocean specializing in wave energy converters and the Portuguese marine research centre WavEc, has embarked on the development of the R&D project HiWave, focused on high efficiency wave power. This international initiative aims to
Recent warming of the Greenland Sea Deep Water is about ten times higher than warming rates estimated for the global ocean. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research recently published these findings in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. For
Leading workboat operator Acta Marine is further expanding their fleet with a new multipurpose workboat with Dynamic Positioning and more than 35 tons bollard pull. The vessel, which will be named “Coastal Chariot”, is a sister vessel of Acta Marine’s existing DP-1 unit “Coastal Challenger”. The mul
The University of New Orleans School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering has received a $121,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop ocean current turbines that will be able to convert the energy of the sea into electricity. The project, “Collaborative Research: Optimized
The ability to join two high voltage cables on a vessel is becoming an increasingly common occurrence in the UK’s offshore wind farm industry. Wind farm sites that are situated a long distance from shore require multiple ‘export cables’ to be laid and later joined together in order to provide a cont
Wright’s Well Control Services was contracted by Marine Platform Limited and Chevron Nigeria to provide a means of supplying a fluid delivery system for deepwater intervention. Using Wrights’ proprietary coiled tubing system, an existing unit was modified to meet the requirements of the contract. Th
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has completed a £4.7 million boulder clearing and pre-lay trenching project which it claims has been one of the most successful ever conducted for the wind energy sector. As subcontractor to Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC), the Banchory-based subsea specialist completed 8
