Cape Wind has announced that it will base its operations headquarters on Falmouth Harbor on Cape Cod, creating 50 new permanent jobs. Cape Wind President Jim Gordon said: “Cape and Islanders once lit the lamps of the world by harvesting whale oil. Pretty soon, every morning, workers will leave from
Cape Wind has announced that it will base its operations headquarters on Falmouth Harbor on Cape Cod, creating 50 new permanent jobs. Cape Wind President Jim Gordon said: “Cape and Islanders once lit the lamps of the world by harvesting whale oil. Pretty soon, every morning, workers will leave from
The EGS Group and GeoSystems Middle East announced the signing of an Exclusive Partnership agreement between the two companies. The exclusive partnership will allow EGS to provide its complete range of survey services to clients of GeoSystems in the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) and other Middle
Reliance Globalcom, Telecom services provider with international subsea cable assets spanning over 73,000 route kilometers, announced that it will upgrade its European Network with Ciena’s technology. According to ciol.com, the company will use Ciena’s 6500 packet optical platform and WaveLogic cohe
Dril-Quip, Inc. today announced that Dril-Quip do Brasil LTDA, its wholly owned subsidiary, has been awarded a four-year contract by Petrobras, Brazil’s national oil company, for the supply of subsea wellhead systems and associated tools to be used in the drilling of deepwater wells offshore Brazil.
During April 2012 EGS (International) Ltd were contracted to carry out a pre-installation cable route survey between the Orkney Islands and the Scottish north coast at Caithness. The scope of work involved a geophysical survey of a 70km long 560m wide cable route corridor, a geotechnical survey alon
NIWA’s research vessel Tangaroa mapped the seabed off the coast of Otago in July this year, revealing the structure of nine canyons in the Great South Basin. The seabed of the Great South Basin has not been mapped in detail before, and this recent survey is providing new information about geological
Technip was awarded by Swiber Offshore Construction a flexible pipe supply contract for the Brunei Shell Petroleum’s Champion Field, located 40 kilometers offshore Brunei, at a water depth of 45 meters. The contract covers the supply of 12 flexible flowlines, with a total length of 19 kilometers. Br
A specialist North-east oil and gas industry support and training facility has secured a multi million pound contract with a major global oil and gas operator. The Aberdeen-based National Hyperbaric Centre (NHC), which offers a range of oil and gas industry support and specialised training services,
Global Marine Systems Energy Ltd., (GME) the largest independent provider of subsea power cable installation, maintenance and related engineering services worldwide has landed the first export cable at the Gwynt y Mor Offshore Wind Farm. The cable was landed by GME’s recently launched vessel, Cable
VERIPOS, has been awarded a three-year exclusive contract by Neptune Marine Services (NMS) of Perth, Western Australia for provision of services in support of its worldwide operations involving engineering solutions carried out on behalf of oil and gas, marine and renewable energy concerns. The cont
Statoil and its partner Petoro have decided to further develop Gullfaks South in the North Sea by investing NOK 8.5 billion in two new subsea templates and six extra wells. This will boost recovery by 65 million barrels of oil equivalent. Increasing recovery from Gullfaks South will be implemented a
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. announced that its wholly-owned Oregon subsidiary, Reedsport OPT Wave Park, LLC, has received approval from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) for the full build-out of its planned 1.5 megawatt, grid-connected wave power station off Reedsport, Orego
Dr. Alan Jamieson and Prof. Stuart Piertney from the University of Aberdeen with collaborators from NIWA, New Zealand and the Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, have been awarded a new 2-year project by the TOTAL Foundation in France. The Project entitled ‘Trench Connection’ will expand the
