This morning, Oceana launched an expedition to document three seamounts that lie between the islands of Mallorca, Ibiza and Formentera, as well as the Fort d’en Moreu which is a coralligenous reef to the East of the Cabrera archipelago, all of which belong to the Balearic Islands. The international
Fisher Offshore, an energy industry service company and part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has underlined its commitment to continued growth with the appointment of a new managing director. Jack Davidson has been promoted from the role of operations director to lead the business as it prepares for t
TAG Energy Solutions has achieved a significant landmark in its project to produce foundations for the Humber Gateway offshore wind farm. North East England-based TAG Energy Solutions has undertaken the load out and sailaway of four 60-metre long, 650 tonne monopile foundations and four transition p
E.ON’s Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm Operations and Maintenance base has been officially opened by Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, the Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP. In the same week, with 61 of the 73 foundations already installed, E.ON celebrates the installation of the first
1. WFS Technologies and Fugro to Offer Wireless ROV Integration WFS Technologies (WFS), the global leader in the delivery of underwater wireless instrumentation and control solutions to the Offshore Oil and Gas and Renewables industries and Fugro Subsea Technologies (Fugro), which designs, builds an
Eolien Maritime France, subsidiary of EDF EN and DONG Energy has issued a tender for geotechnical services offshore France. The work scope consists of offshore wind farm geotechnical foundations surveys and associated services, including geotechnical investigations for foundations’ detailed design c
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has strengthened its reputation in the renewables sector with the award of a third seabed clearance contract on a major wind farm construction project. The subsea engineering specialist has started offshore operations on the Westermost Rough development, located eight kil
BBL Company, established to design, construct, operate and exploit the BBL pipeline, has invited tenders for the BBL Offshore Pipeline Survey 2015. The survey will include acoustic inspections, bathymetric surveys and visual inspections of approximately 230km of the offshore pipeline which transport
High-voltage transmission grid operator TenneT continued to provide very high system reliability (99.9999%), benefiting 36 million end-users in the Netherlands and Germany. Financial results in the first half of 2014 were solid. Increases in revenue and EBIT kept pace with the company’s ongoing inve
The UK’s most challenging rural broadband project is taking another step forward as engineers start work on the country’s longest publicly funded subsea fibre connection linking the Outer Hebrides with the mainland. Local community representatives joined project partners as the cable was brought ash
The Board of Directors of Prysmian S.p.A. has approved the Group’s consolidated results for the first half of 2014. Group Sales amounted to €3,287 million compared with €3,504 million in the first half of 2013, posting organic growth of +1.3%, assuming the same group perimeter and excluding metal pr
The research and development expedition to investigate ice and metocean conditions in the Russian Arctic organized by The Arctic Research and Design Center (the Rosneft and ExxonMobil JV) with the support of Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute experts has started in the White sea. Scientific res
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has received an agreement worth $4.3 million for multi-client data offshore the Faroe Island. The agreement includes both late sales of the existing multi-client dataset acquired by EMGS in 2012 (the Brugdan-Rosebank Line) and pre-funding of an extension of the
CGG has announced its non-audited 2014 second quarter results. Reported revenue was at $689 million, compared to $1.032 million same time last year. Restructuring measures implemented in 2014: – Marine fleet reduced to 13 seismic vessels by end 2014. 1 vessel already decommissioned, 1 vessel retired
