Scientists from a leading university in Scotland are heading up a pan-European project to create the most advanced, autonomous, cognitive robot which could help to dramatically reduce the cost of underwater monitoring operations and maintenance within the oil and gas industry. The team from the Ocea
African Petroleum Corporation Limited, a West African focused oil and gas exploration company, announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, African Petroleum Côte d’Ivoire Limited, has entered into an agreement with the Société Nationale d’Opérations Pétrolières de la Côte d’Ivoire and the Republic o
Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission Limited (SHETL), the licensed transmission owner in the north of Scotland, is planning to develop a 109 km subsea electricity cable between Caithness and Moray to transmit the large volume of existing and planned electricity from renewable sources in the north of
Statens vegvesen Region South which intends, on behalf of Vest-Agder County, to build a subsea tunnel between the mainland and the island of Hidra in Flekkefjord Municipality, has announced the tender for the tunnel engineering services. In this connection, the County Governor of Vest-Agder has requ
TenneT Offshore GmbH has announced the tender for subsea cable surveying services for the Alpha Ventus BorWin project. The BorWin Alpha in the North Sea is known as the biggest and most remote offshore wind farm cluster project in the world. For the first time in wind power history, the generated po
Expresso Ghana has recently revealed its plans to set up a new ACE submarine fiber optic cable in Ghana. Following MTN and Glo Mobile, Expresso would be the third individual operator in Ghana to have landed a submarine fiber optic cable. The 14,000km ACE cable originates from France and ends in Sout
Providence Resources P.l.c., the London (AIM) and Dublin (ESM) quoted oil and gas exploration and production company provides a final testing update from its Barryroe well, offshore southern Ireland. The 48/24-10z Barryroe appraisal well is located in c. 100 metre water depth, c. 50 kilometres offsh
Ocean Alden, the newly built stand-by vessel for the Gjøa field was named at a ceremony at the GDF SUEZ base in Florø. A new subsea warehouse and workshop were inaugurated on the same occasion. GDF SUEZ E&P Norge has awarded shipowners Atlantic Offshore a 10 year contract for the operation of the Oc
ShawCor Ltd. announced its pipecoating division, Bredero Shaw, has received contracts with a value in excess of US$30 million from PEARLOIL (Sebuku) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pearl Energy, which is the Southeast Asia operating arm of Mubadala Oil & Gas, a business unit of Mubadala Develo
Cable laying at the Sheringham Shoal Offshore wind farm in the Greater Wash has been completed, reports renews Europe. Visser & Smit has installed a total of 56km of infield cables by utilizing the 86m vessel Team Oman, which has been deployed at the site for 18 months. The cable will now be trenche
Long time SeaBotix client Orca Maritime specializes in underwater security, survey, GIS, marine services and training. As a known expert in the local San Diego area Orca Maritime was contracted to recover a lost Experimental AUV. Armed with a new vLBV300 ROV system and an approximate last known loca
Biologists of the Alfred Wegener Institute have used the institute’s new ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) for the first time during an expeditions into the fjords at the Chilean west coast. The underwater robot worked perfectly and made exciting video records of cold-water corals, for instance in the
CSA International, Inc. (CSA) has acquired ECOES Consulting, a leading Marine Mammals and Protected Species Consulting firm in Florida, expanding the capabilities of CSA’s Marine Mammals Business Line. As part of the acquisition, Ms. Mary Jo Barkaszi, former President of ECOES, will be responsible f
Tendering District Council has given the go-ahead to DONG Energy for installation of electric cables for two new test wind turbines, according to Clacton and Frinton Gazette. The cables will connect Gunfleet Sands wind farm to a new substation at the Veolia Water Site at the Waterglade Retail Park i
