MultiClient Geophysical ASA (MCG) announces the completion of the MC2D-MCG1281 survey in Barbados. The first phase of the seismic survey was acquired in 2012 and comprised of 3,856 km. The second phase has added another 3,020 km and was completed on 17 April 2013. The 6,876 km survey has been recent
Neptune Marine Services Limited (Neptune or the Company) announces that it has been awarded a contract extension from Eni on the recently announced IRM works in the Blacktip field. The extended Eni scope of work includes a geotechnical drilling campaign and is expected to be followed by the utilisat
1. Alstom Shows Tidal Stream Power Generation (VIDEO) Alstom, a world leader in transport infrastructure, power generation and electrical grid, shows tidal stream power animation. Tidal power is a major growth area, with a potential global electricity generation estimated up to 100 gigawatts. 2. UK:
At the beginning of March a Hydrex team of diver/technicians sailed out with one of the company’s dive support workboats to a 200-meter vehicle carrier berthed in the port of Antwerp. They performed an underwater inspection and repair of the vessel’s malfunctioning rudder. The latest development all
On April 17th, the positioning of the first portside sponson (p10) has been succesfully completed at the site of Costa Concordia wreck. Operations have continued yesterday with installation of the second sponson (p11) offshore Giglio Island. Eventually, the sponsons will be welded on the hull of the
Seaborn Networks, the developer and operator of the first direct Sao Paulo – US cable system (Seabras-1), announced it is establishing its first Brazil gateway in Equinix’s International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Equinix’s facility in Sao Paulo (SP2) provides data c
Hydrex teams carried out underwater steel repairs on vessels in France and Portugal. In France Hydrex carried out a pipe repair on a 210-meter bulk carrier berthed in Dunkirk and reinforced the weld seams of a leaking doubler plate on a 183-meter tanker in Marseille. In Setubal, Portugal, two repair
U.S. Navy Divers from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2 and contracted salvage personnel successfully raised and returned to shore a sunken patrol boat (PB 502), April 18. Coastal Riverine Squadron (CRS) 10, a Navy Reserve unit based in Jacksonville, Fla., was conducting a routine training eve
Last month, Hydrex teams carried out underwater propeller operations in Bremen and Rostock (Germany) and Algeciras (Spain). In Algeciras a 200-meter vehicle carrier had its five propeller blades cropped. In Germany three of the five blades of a 183-meter tanker were grinded, re-profiled and polished
JDR, a leading provider of technology connecting the global offshore energy industry, has published its results for the twelve months ended 31 December 2012[1] together with its Annual Report. Financial Highlights for the 12 months to 31 December 2012 – Record revenues of £129.9m (2011: £83.2m), an
Petroceltic International plc (“Petroceltic” or the “Company”), the upstream oil and gas exploration and production company focused on North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions announces its participation in a joint venture with Edison International Spa (“Edison”) which was the succe
Undersea mining developer Chatham Rock Phosphate expects to be the first minerals company to have an environmental consent application considered under the Exclusive Economic Zone legislation. Chief executive Chris Castle said he is delighted the start date for the EEZ Act had been confirmed as June
Statoil and partner Petoro have proven considerable additional resources in the Shetland Group/Lista Formation in the Gullfaks licence. The Shetland Group and the Lista Formation are younger and slightly shallower deposits with different properties compared to the deposits of the Brent Group where t
TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, announced that its engineers have demonstrated record-breaking transpacific transmission using both 200Gb/s and 400Gb/s data channels. The results, presented at the recent post deadline session o
