A proposed offshore wind project in Maryland, supported by Governor Martin O’Malley and his offshore wind bill, could be an outbreak for the U.S. offshore wind industry, as it has already attracted interest from the U.S. unit of Electricite de France SA and may be connected via subsea transmission b
Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. today announced an update to its drilling operations in the Dussafu Tortue Marin-1 (DTM-1) well drilled in the Dussafu Marin PSC, offshore Gabon, West Africa. Harvest operates the Dussafu PSC, holding a 66.667% interest. The DTM-1 well was initially drilled in 380 fee
As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau announced that Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 227 wil
On 23-24 January, part of Wave Energy Centre’s (WavEC) team has been performing measurements at a wave tank of the University of Porto’s Faculty of Engineering (FEUP) to prepare the testing of a wave energy converter at this tank in April. The Wave Energy Centre is a non-profit organisation, founded
The Coniston Development Project is a new subsea oil field development located in the Exmouth Basin offshore North West Australia. The project involves development of the Coniston and Novara oilfields via a tie-back to subsea infrastructure already in place for the Apache-operated Van Gogh field dev
Geological Survey of Ireland announced a tender for the supply of an echosounder. The requirement is for a shallow-water multi-beam (MB) echosounder for deployment on a small vessel during near-shore mapping exercises. It should be suitable for inshore craft and 20m+ vessels. The tender has a value
Statens vegvesen Region vest announced a tender for subsea tunnel seismic survey services with a value between 4 Mln and 6 Mln NOK. E39 Rogfast is a subsea tunnel between Randaberg and Bokn, with an arm up to Kvitsøy in Rogaland. Reflection and refraction seismic has already been performed, at sea a
Marine photosynthesis is responsible for approximately half the oxygen in our atmosphere. In other words the oxygen in every second breath we take comes from the ocean. For the last 10 years Professor Andrew McMinn and his team from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasma
KONGSBERG had a high level of activity in Q4 2012, with operating revenues of MNOK 4 209. This is 8.4 per cent higher than in Q4 2011. EBITA came to MNOK 480 in Q4, compared with MNOK 544 in Q4 2011. The Group was awarded strategically important contracts in Q4, and the influx of new […]
The Divers Institute of Technology (DIT), Seattle Washington and the Underwater Centre in Fort William, Scotland have formed an alliance to provide American and Canadian divers the opportunity to advance their careers in the global subsea market. The Underwater Centre offers Divers Institute of Tech
In completing over 85% of all energy resources assessments for the domestic scene, Partrac have established themselves as the leading survey company able to deliver high quality data from these environments. Technical Director Kevin Black said: “We have just completed internal reviews for our 2012 A
Resolute Marine Energy (RME) announced that its preliminary permit application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has been approved, marking the official start of the Yakutat, Alaska Wave Energy Project. “This approval is an important milestone for RME. After several years of researc
TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, announced that it has completed another long-haul network upgrade, this time to the Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) submarine cable system. The upgrade to the 18,000 km system brings an increase of o
Technip Offshore Wind has safely and successfully completed contractual work on the installation of 38 array and 8 substation cables on the Lincs wind farm located off the Lincolnshire coast. The project was the first to use the award-winning Pull-In Module (PIM) Technology. Geoff Fisher, Vice Presi
