RRS Discovery is currently sailing to remote waters beyond the southeast tip of Chile. This is part of a NOC-led project to understand how the Southern Ocean takes up and stores carbon from the atmosphere. The CUSTARD (Carbon Uptake and Seasonal Traits in Remineralisation Depth) project will focus o
McDermott has been awarded a contract for concept and engineering services by Talos Energy for the Zama field development project offshore Mexico. The contract award is for engineering services, including concept selection and follow-on pre-FEED. McDermott will execute this contract award with io oi
Consortium of ThienNam Offshore Services, PT Advanced Offshore and PVMTC has recently completed two subsea construction works of saturation diving. The first saturation diving project was for Petro Vietnam Exploration and Production for the installation of subsea clamps on Dai Hung 1 Jacket The seco
Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation (OTE) has appointed an international lawyer and consultant Dan Slone to its advisory board.
Orbital Marine Power’s pioneering engineering work was recognized not once but twice at the Institution of Engineering and Technology annual achievements awards in London last night.
Aibel has been awarded the FEED contract for Gudrun Phase 2 Water Injection. The contract with Equinor also includes an option for the actual implementation (EPCI). The FEED phase (front end engineering design) starts immediately at Aibel’s headquarters in Stavanger and in Haugesund. The project wil
The EU-funded DTOceanPlus project has in the first six months since its launch produced three deliverables that have been openly shared with the marine energy sector.
JDR and McAllister Towing have established a memorandum of understanding for the development and collaborative operation of a US East Cost Offshore Wind subsea power cable service base with an integrated cable training center. This new facility is being targeted to be developed on an existing McAlli
Development agency, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has introduced a new ‘vision’ for an international, multi-use, offshore test and demonstration campus in Loch Linnhe. The move follows the closure of The Underwater Centre in Fort William, which entered administration last month. The facilit
Shearwater GeoServices has completed the acquisition of the marine seismic acquisition assets and operations of WesternGeco, the geophysical services product line of Schlumberger. The transaction was completed following receipt of relevant regulatory approvals and satisfaction of customary closing c
PGS has as part of a tender process offered to sell the Ramform Sterling to the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC). PGS said it has now been informed that the company is the preferred tenderer, and negotiations will be initiated with the aim of concluding necessary contracts. A
In a talk show held as part of Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2018, Daniel Buhagiar, senior researcher in a team developing energy storage system tailored for marine renewables, spoke about the importance of patent protection for building strong collaborations within the offshore energy ind
Downhole sensing technology specialist, Well-SENSE, has launched its latest FiberLine Intervention (FLI) development, ‘Active FLI’. Active FLI builds on the capability of Well-SENSE’s new fiber optic downhole data acquisition system with the addition of a range of discrete measurement devices, the c
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has developed a ‘concept for industry’, outlining vision for the new multi-use offshore test and demonstration campus in Loch Linnhe, in west Scotland.
