In just a few weeks, a remarkable new Fugro trenching system will start its first offshore deployment, working for Centrica on the 270MW, 75-turbine Lincs offshore wind farm. Fugro-Salt Subsea of Aberdeen has already run a series of successful jetting and cutting trials with the first of its state o
Artemis Atlantic concluded the acquisition of seismic data in Nordland IV and V on Tuesday 7 August. On Monday, the vessel acquired seismic data in areas 3 and 4. Before the acquisition ends, two lines will be acquired on the boundary between areas 2 and 3. The acquisition of seismic data in the are
Providence Resources P.l.c., the Irish oil and gas exploration and production company, whose shares are listed in London (AIM) and Dublin (IEX), provided a technical update on Licensing Option 11/9 in advance of the upcoming Third Central & North Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference. A new third pa
ARKeX, the provider of non-seismic geophysical imaging services, has recently completed an airborne Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometry (FTG) survey offshore Greenland for ION Geophysical. The 50,000 sq km multi-client survey is the largest single offshore FTG survey ever carried out. The survey takes i
GDF SUEZ as operator with partners Centrica and Bayerngas have announced sanctioning of the £1.4 billion ($2.18 billion) Cygnus project to develop the sixth largest gas field in the UK Southern North Sea. GDF SUEZ (38.75%) will operate the field with partners Centrica (48.75%) and Bayerngas (12.5%).
Fugro GEOS has obtained an extension of its longest continuous contract. The contract renewal with Sarawak Shell Berhad (SSB) and Sabah Shell Petroleum Company (SSPC) is a four-year addendum to twenty years of commitment. This multi-disciplinary contract continues the provision of an eleven-station
Wood Group Kenny’s subsea and pipeline business J P Kenny has recently been awarded a $7.5 million contract by Apache North Sea Limited to provide subsea engineering services. The contract runs initially for 3 years with further options beyond this timescale. The agreement covers all of Apache’s Nor
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a detailed design contract for GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd’s Cygnus gas field development, the UK North Sea’s largest gas discovery in the last 25 years. The detail design contract follows on from the FEED work and is value
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that it has commenced the second well in its 2012 Malaysian drilling campaign with the spud of Berangan 1 exploration well in SB303 Block, offshore Sabah, Malaysia. The well will target hydrocarbons in mid-Miocene aged sands in a faulted anticline in
Hollund Industrial Marine, Inc. announced that the company has executed a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) formalizing Hollund’s exclusive right to manage and operate a patented underwater robotic resource technology. Part of Hollund’s pursuit of this license was to enhance the potential to acquire
A team of marine scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, federal, and state agencies is heading to the Arctic to begin the first… [mappress] Source: NOAA , August 07, 2012
Houston-based BPZ Energy and Shanghai-based Wison Offshore & Marine Ltd., a subsidiary of the Wison Group, announced the successful load out and sail away of the world’s first Buoyant Tower drilling and production platform destined for installation at BPZ Energy’s Corvina field located offshore Peru
McDermott International, Inc. announced that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded a contract by Williams Partners L.P. for transportation and installation services for a Spar hull in the Gulf of Mexico. The value of the contract is included in McDermott’s second quarter 2012 backlog. McDermott w
Pharos Offshore Group has completed cable repair and burial for the London Array Offshore Wind Farm on a section of damaged subsea export cable. Pharos delivered a work package with the rapid mobilisation of engineering, fabrication and operational teams to locate, recover, re-lay and re-bury the po
