Cefas, executive agency of Defra acting on behalf of the UK Government, has been tasked with delivering a programme of R&D data collection to support implementation of Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) within the UK Continental Shelf. MCZs are intended to conserve or improve the UK marine environment
Ocean Installer announces receipt of a Letter of Intent (LOI) from Xcite Energy Resources Ltd (“XER”) for the installation of two oil export pipelines from the Rowan Norway jack-up to a shuttle tanker. The LOI received for XER for the Bentley fields is for the installation of two oil export pipeline
Gardline Hydro, an operating division of Gardline providing seabed-mapping services, has been awarded a contract by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate on behalf of the Norwegian Government. This is under an agreement on financial and technical co-operation with seven coastal states to perform a geo
PGS has over 10 000 km relevant data for Colombia’s Ronda 2012, launched February 21 in Bogota. Bid Round announcement Colombia’s National Hydrocarbon Agency has announced preliminary terms and timing for the upcoming Bid Round, Ronda 2012. The official launch of Ronda 2012 took place in Bogota on t
Harnessing the reliable and predictable energy of tidal streams, Tidal Generation Limited has surpassed the 200 megawatt hours (MWh) mark of electrical power generated and fed into the national grid with its 500 kilowatt (kW) tidal turbine prototype, which operates subsea off the Orkney Islands, Sco
Recently the owners of a Container vessel consulted FN Diving regarding heavy vibrations of the vessel’s propeller. FN Diving team attended the vessel for an underwater inspection while offloading in Amsterdam port. The underwater inspection revealed 4 damaged propeller blades due to ice damage on a
Octanex N.L announces that the last of three new 3D seismic surveys, the Ascalon 3D survey in WA-407-P, has been completed and the acquisition vessel, “Voyager Explorer”, has been demobilised. These new 3D seismic surveys have been acquired within three of the Company’s six Southern Bonaparte Basin
Leighton Offshore announced that following the successful hydrostatic testing of the onshore and offshore pipeline systems and subsequent final commissioning of the offshore export facility, crude oil was now flowing to a single point mooring (SPM) installed under the $799m Iraq Crude Oil Export Exp
The protection of the Baltic Sea will be further expanded: this spring, Nord Stream AG intends to establish an international nature conservation foundation for the Baltic Sea. This is a further outcome of the agreement reached in 2010 between Nord Stream AG and the environmental associations WWF and
Spectrum, in partnership with CGGVeritas and GeoData Ventures, have commenced a broadband 2D Multi-Client seismic survey offshore West Timor, Indonesia, utilizing CGGVeritas’ state-of-the-art BroadSeisTM technology. The largely prefunded program will cover 3,340 km over the Timor trough, with CGGVer
Yan Kai, the chief engineer of China’s manned deep-sea submersible research vessel Jiaolong, confirmed that the craft will reach a depth of 7,000 meters below sea level this summer, thereby meeting its design goals. The submersible has successfully completed all of its previous trial runs, carrying
BMT ARGOSS, a subsidiary of BMT Group, the leading international maritime design, environmental and engineering consultancy, has recently been awarded a number of projects in Southeast Asia including metocean studies for Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd and its offshore development, east of Sabah in Malays
McDermott has awarded a major contract to Thrustmaster of Texas to upgrade its Derrick Barge DB30 with dynamic positioning capabilities (DP-2). Thrustmaster of Texas will provide McDermott with a turnkey DP solution for its heavy-lift and pipelay vessel which will include eight 2,000hp retractable h
Caley Ocean Systems is upgrading the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s (WHOI) R/V Atlantis research vessel’s A-frame handling system, to handle the new ‘Alvin’ deep submergence vehicle. The Caley A-frame handling system was originally designed and installed in 1983 to launch and recover the Woo
