China’s manned deep-sea submersible Jiaolong, with three divers inside, has set a new record by diving over 6,000 meters below the sea in the Mariana Trench on Friday, ChinaDaily reports. This was the first of a series of planned six dives. The dive began at 9 am (local time) on Friday. The 6,055 me
BOULDER has been contracted by Heerema for cargo runs and towage of their barge H 302 and Vikingbarge 3 from Flushing to South Arne Field, where Heerema’s HLV BALDER will install a new jacket and topside. The South Arne platform comprises a combined wellhead, processing and accommodation platform wi
Expresso’s ACE Submarine Fiber Optic Cable is ready for landing on the shores of Ghana. ACE Consortium officials confirmed this information at the West and Central Africa Com Conference in Dakar, Myjoyonline.com reports. The US$700 million submarine fibre cable is prepared to land ahead of commercia
Australian government announced their plans to create the world’s largest network of marine reserves. The area covered would be about 1.2 million square miles of ocean including the entire area of the Coral Sea, The Seattle Times reports. Environment Minister Tony Burke stated that the government wo
Scottish-based FoundOcean Ltd announces that it has been awarded the contract for the foundation grouting for Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Limited, UK. “Gwynt y Môr is being built with an installed capacity of 576 megawatts in Liverpool Bay, around 13 kilometres off the North Wales coast; it is on
Scotland’s economic development agencies, Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, have joined forces to launch a series of research and development funding calls to attract projects with potential to drive down the cost of offshore renewable energy. R&D funding has been made availa
Australian listed petroleum exploration company, FAR Ltd commences data acquisition of their anticipated 3D seismic survey over some of the world’s most keenly sought petroleum exploration acreage off the coast of Kenya. The survey will cover 680km2 and is budgeted to cost $13.67M (FAR Ltd share $8.
Statoil and partner ExxonMobil have made a large gas discovery in the Statoil-operated Block 2 licence in Tanzania. The logging results from the Lavani well confirm a new high-impact discovery for Statoil, with a preliminary resource estimate of 3 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gas in place. The Lavan
PEMEX Exploration and Production (PEP) has awarded to the joint venture between DRAGADOS OFFSHORE and SWIBER the EPC project for an offshore pipeline project. PEP has declared the joint venture between Dragados Offshore and Swiber, the successful tenderer of the 36” Ø x77 Km pipeline project, coveri
JDR Cable Systems has won its first ever offshore wind farm export wire supply contract. Danish developer Dong has selected the subsea inter-array specialist to manufacture a 12km medium-voltage link for the two-turbine Gunfleet Sands demonstrator. The cable is being produced in JDR’s Hartlepool fac
Centrica Renewables Energy Ltd. has confirmed that Global Marine Energy Ltd., the largest independent provider of subsea power cable installation, maintenance and related engineering services worldwide, has successfully completed its portion of the cable landing and near shore cable works related to
German military divers are working on bringing up the wreck of a Stuka dive bomber that has been on the floor of the Baltic Sea for 70 years, according to Associated Press. The Stuka wreck was first discovered in the 1990s, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) off the coast of the German Baltic island [&he
With all five blades of its propeller severely bent, a 290-meter container vessel needed a fast, on-site solution to restore the propeller’s balance and efficiency. Hydrex diver/technicians are trained to carry out repairs underwater in the shortest possible time frame and a team was therefore mobil
Antrim Energy Inc., Antrim, an international oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Calgary, Canada, announced it has been granted an extension for the submission of a Field Development Plan (“FDP”) for the Fyne Field in UK Central North Sea licence P077 Block 21/28a (the “F
