The rhetoric about domestic oil drilling reached a fever pitch in Washington this week with the Obama administration touting the approval of more Gulf deepwater drilling permits and Republicans countering that the pace of permitting is still too slow. The stakes are high for both sides of the issue,
Iceland is moving forward with plans to construct what would be the world’s longest undersea electricity cable, albeit at glacial pace… (icis) [mappress] Source: icis, March 28, 2011
Investigations are being launched into how three dolphins died earlier this month during a Navy training exercise along the San Diego coast… (kdvr) [mappress] Source:kdvr , March 28, 2011;
The long-awaited drillship Deepwater Champion finally passed through the Bosporus on Friday en route to the Black Sea province of Samsun… (todayszaman) [mappress] Source: todayszaman, March 28, 2011;
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) approved a sixth deepwater drilling permit on March 25 that… (marinelink) [mappress] Source: marinelink, March 28, 2011;
Dominion Diving Ltd has recently been awarded a contract for the remaining subsea work which is scheduled this summer to complete the natural gas development led by Encana –The Deep Panuke Project. For the duration of approximately two weeks, Dominion Diving will be working with Tideway- a Dutch off
Shell and KROHNE signed an agreement to commercialize a new multiphase flowmeter based on the Magnetic Resonance principle for oil and gas field installations. The agreement comprises the manufacturing, marketing and sales of the new meter which was developed through an R&D collaboration between She
Plains Exploration & Production Company announces it continues to evaluate alternatives to separate its deepwater and onshore businesses, which include separately capitalizing its deepwater business through a joint venture or outside capital and then either spinning-off or divesting these assets. Ja
Dominion Diving has been awarded the contract by Dexter Construction to provide underwater diving services to install a new Marine Railway for Shelburne Shipyard. Dominion Diving will be involved with the methodology reviews, procurement and installation of the subsea assets for the project. The sub
Nexans, a worldwide leading expert in the cable industry, has been awarded an approximately 18 million euros contract by Statoil to design, engineer and manufacture the static and dynamic subsea umbilicals that will play a vital role in the tie back system connecting the new Gygrid field development
Aker Solutions has reached a major milestone in delivering the 100th subsea tree to the world’s largest subsea field development – Statoil’s Troll. A subsea tree is a key technology enabling oil and gas production directly from a subsea well to a processing facility. The tree is essentially an advan
Bibby Offshore Limited announce that Mr Archie Kennedy has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director to the Bibby Offshore (Holdings) Board. Most recently, Mr Kennedy was Integration Director supporting Centrica PLC throughout the transition resulting from the acquisition of Venture Production by C
Dominion Diving has been award a contract by Worthington Products Inc. to upgrade the Floating Force Protection Boom surrounding the Navy Dockyard. Dominion Diving will be involved with the complete fabrication and installation of a subsea vessel entrance gate for the Floating Force Protection Boom.
Statoil published the group’s Annual and Sustainability Report for 2010 on its website , 25 March, as well as its US Annual Report and accounts on Form 20-F. “2010 was a year of important strategic progress and active portfolio management for Statoil. We carried out a successful listing of Statoil F
