Divers from minehunter HMS Middleton swapped England’s south coast for the warm waters of Gibraltar for a week of high-tempo training. The five-strong team made full use of the facilities on the Rock, practising search techniques, helping stricken divers, lifting mines from the seabed and carrying o
Eastern Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) Consortium has selected Xtera Communications Inc. (Xtera), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, for the upgrade of its festoon subsea cable system. ECFS subsea cable system is made of 10 segments, connecting Tortola in the British Virgin Is
Alcatel-Lucent and a consortium composed of Vodafone Group, Dialog Axiata, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat), Reliance Jio Infocomm, Omantel and Telekom Malaysia, have signed a turn-key contract to deploy a new 100 Gigabit-per-second (100G) submarine cable system to connect Oman, th
As of 2013 Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies (KOGT) is reported as a seperate business area. KONGSBERG had high level of activity in Q1 2013. Operating revenues totalled MNOK 4 033, up 5.1 per cent from Q1 2012. EBITDA came to MNOK 500 in Q1, compared with MNOK 550 in the same period last year. [&hel
Partrac and Rockland Scientific have announced a Strategic Partnership to provide turbulence measurement solutions for the UK and European tidal energy industry. Rockland Scientific, based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, specializes in the design and manufacture of turbulence measurement inst
Regarding the sale of FPSO Voyageur Spirit to Teekay Corporation, Sevan Marine announces that the transfer of title to the FPSO Voyageur Spirit to Voyageur LLC is scheduled to take place on Thursday, May 2, 2013. Recently the FPSO began oil production at Huntington field in the Central North Sea. Th
The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) research vessel Kairei has successfully retrieved the sensors from the deepest borehole observatory ever installed from the extreme ocean depths of nearly 7000 meters on 26th April, 2013. The R/V Kairei carried out the complex sequen
BP announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013. Underlying replacement cost profit for the quarter was $4.2 billion, compared to $3.9 billion in the fourth quarter and $4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2012. Operating cash flow in the quarter was $4.0 billion, compared with $3.4
NOAA is using data from a new current meter in New York harbor, operated by one of its academic partners, New Jersey’s Stevens Institute of Technology, to provide enhanced real-time information to mariners travelling through the nation’s second busiest port. The Stevens current meter measures the di
Chatham Rock Phosphate submitted a draft Environmental Impact Assessment to the Environmental Protection Authority. The EPA is a national-level independent environmental regulation, which has the ability to grant or decline marine consent applications. “This is a major milestone and the culmination
AREVA Wind, one of the leading manufacturers of offshore wind turbines, is expanding its offshore service base. The company has celebrated the start of the base construction in Emden, together with the City Mayor Bernd Bornemann. The base at Emden offers the best nautical conditions for maintenance
Zanzibar President Ali Mohamed Shein officially launched a new 100 megawatts marine cable line from the national grid (Tanzania mainland) on April 10, a sign of energy progress which is expected to lead Zanzibar towards its own “reliable power”. At the celebration of this move, some members of the Z
International oilfield specialist Glacier Energy Services formally opened the north-east base of its Wellclad business in Boldon – creating up to 22 new jobs in an investment worth more than £325,000 – as part of a major growth plan. Jarrow MP Stephen Hepburn met workers as he opened the office and
Jee Ltd, a leading subsea engineering and training firm, has just completed a contract with Technip Offshore Wind Ltd for the provision of subsea power cable installation engineering on a new and innovative offshore wind farm project. Jee provided Technip with valuable information about the safest a
