Norwegian seismic player PGS said that its contract with ExxonMobil for the 3D survey in South America has been redefined to exclude one of the vessels from the previously announced campaign. The contract, announced in November last year, had two vessels planed for a total duration of approximately
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has seen an increase in the vessel utilization for the fourth quarter 2018 to 32% compared with 13% for the fourth quarter in 2017. For the full year 2018, the vessel utilization dropped to 33%, whereas the utilization for the full year 2017 was 56%. In the fourth
SeaBird Exploration, a seismic data provider, has received an award to acquire 2D seismic data for an international oil & gas company in the Americas region. The survey for an unnamed client is due to begin during Q2 2019. According to SeaBird, the survey is estimated to run for approximately two mo
Denmark’s Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP) has awarded financial support to the CORTIR project proposed by a partnership of 21 industry companies and 2 universities headed up by Bladena ApS.
Polarcus has executed a contract with Dubai Petroleum Establishment for a combined towed streamer and ocean bottom node (OBN) 3D seismic acquisition and processing project in the Middle East. The project will start in Q1 2019 and run for approximately three months, the company informed. The towed st
Take a look at the Global OTEC Resources’ video to see its ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) plant in operation, and hear more about the company’s plans for the newly-designed clean power technology.
Marine energy developer Minesto has launched a tender for the supply of a new generator and power conversion system to support the ongoing development of its Deep Green tidal power technology.
Shell has kicked off production from Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility by opening subsea wells on December 25, 2018. The Prelude FLNG facility is located 475 km north-north east of Broome in Western Australia. Prelude now enters start-up, ramp-up, which is the initial phase of p
Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings Berhad (MHB) in consortium with TechnipFMC has signed a Long-Term Agreement (LTA) with Saudi Aramco. The agreement covers engineering, procurement, fabrication, transportation, and installation of offshore facilities in support of Saudi Aramco’s Offshor
Nexans has completed the installation of the first four cables of NordLink, the power connection between Norway and Germany. A collaboration between Statnett, TenneT and the German promotional bank KfW, the 1400 MW NordLink interconnector will connect the Norwegian and German electricity markets to
German company NEMOS has made design and construction progress on both its next-generation wave power prototype, as well as the Ostend tower for research into offshore wind, tidal and wave technologies.
The team of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has made a recap of the achievements made throughout 2018 at the world-renowned Orkney-based testing center that were nothing short of remarkable, and included the proving of viability of tidal energy with GWh’s of generation, continued demonstrat
Australia’s transcontinental submarine fibre optic cable, INDIGO Central, has now achieved ‘final splice’, Superloop informed. Final splice represents the conclusion of subsea cable installation creating a complete optical path from landing station to landing station. This follows INDIGO West achiev
US-based wave energy company Columbia Power Technologies (C-Power) has completed the testing of its LandRAY direct-drive generator as part of the StingRAY wave energy device development.
