On Thursday evening, Åge Holmestad of Moelven Limtre AS and Svein Dag Henriksen of Hydra Tidal AS received the innovation award Schweighofer Prize 2011 for their work on laminated timber turbine blades for a floating power station project at Gimsøystraumen in Nordland based on ocean and tidal curren
Oceana will launch the second leg of a three leg scientific expedition exploring Important Ecological Areas (IEAs) in the Pacific Ocean using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and high definition video cameras. The West Coast expedition commenced June 13th in Monterey Bay, California, and will concl
Regional ICT think tank LIRNEasia on Wednesday proposed the building of a terrestrial cable system to provide international connectivity bet… (Total Telecom) [mappress] Source: Total Telecom, June 22 , 2011;
Mechanical engineering specialist, EnerMech, has been awarded a number of contracts “worth a substantial sum” to provide pipeline pre-commissioning services by Subsea 7. Two awards are for Dutch sector projects where the workscope includes pre-trench flooding, cleaning and gauge pigging, high speed
The Gudrun Jacket will be written into history as the first delivery from Kvaerner, when it is handed over to Statoil on 1 July 2011. “This jacket will be number 35 in the series of jackets delivered from the yard in Verdal. Gudrun was awarded as the first project after the financial crisis, and [&h
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership (OL) announced Teledyne Webb Research, of East Falmouth, Mass., will provide open ocean gliders supporting the Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) component of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). WHOI, an
ENI NORGE has chosen technology from AGR Drilling Services for multi-well projects in the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea. The Cutting Transportation System (CTSTM) from AGR will be used on 24 wells drilled by the Norwegian arm of Italian energy company Eni. The system will mainly be deployed on t
ISE Ltd. announces that Fukada Salvage and Marine Works Co. Ltd. has placed an order for an Explorer autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The vehicle will be used for commercial survey operations and is equipped with an EdgeTech 2200M sidescan sonar and sub-bottom profiler, an R2Sonics 2022 multibea
Spectrum has secured a significant 2D seismic acquisition capacity with Seabird for expansion of their Multi-Client library, together with a re-let agreement for Spectrum’s vessel, the GGS Atlantic. As part of the continued growth of Spectrum’s Multi-Client library, the company has now committed to
NCS Survey, an Acteon company, announces the appointment of John Meaden as Chief Operating Officer reporting to Andy Gray, President. John will assist NCS Survey with the next stage of its growth following the recent acquisition of NCS by Acteon Group Ltd. Andy Gray stated “We are delighted to have
SeeByte, the global leader in creating smart software technology for unmanned systems, announces that Fugro Survey Pty Ltd (Fugro) has successfully broken the current world record for the longest uninterrupted pipeline inspection using a low-logistics AUV. The SeeTrack AutoTracker software was utili
The world’s largest pipelay vessel Allseas’ Solitaire completed the construction of Line 2 of the Nord Stream Pipeline in Russian waters and has resumed pipe laying in Finnish waters. Over 230 kilometres of Line 2 have now been laid in the Baltic Sea, 124 kilometres of which are in Russian waters. S
Wave energy company Aquamarine Power took the first step towards installation of its second full-scale Oyster wave energy converter last week with the arrival of the „Excalibur‟ jack-up barge in Orkney. The vessel is now stationed at the European Marine Energy Centre‟s (EMEC) Billia Croo site, where
SAS’ partner from Norway AXTech AS announces the award of a contract for Module Handling / Subsea Winch System. Subsea 7 awarded this contract for design and delivery of a winch system that will be installed in a new vessel currently being fabricated at Ulstein Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway. The vesse
