Costa Crociere and the Titan Micoperi Consortium informed that removal operations on Costa Concordia wreck have resumed on Monday morning. The area of the diving accident that happened on Saturday is excluded from the activities due to investigation which is currently underway. The diving operations
DNV GL UK has secured the third party ICP (Independent Competent Person) multi-million GBP contract, related to compliance with UK Offshore Regulations for the Statoil Mariner project. The award is the culmination of two years’ of project FEED support, assisting Statoil in developing Performance Sta
In the presence of Lower Saxony’s State Premier Stephan Weil, DONG Energy and Nexans Deutschland on Monday signed a supplementary contract for the delivery and installation of medium-voltage cables for the German offshore wind farms Gode Wind 1 and 2. This new agreement is part of an outline contrac
Marine Current Turbines issued a Notice to Mariners regarding the planned operations on the SeaGen tidal turbine system which may impact navigation. The operations will be conducted in Strangford Lough on a tidal turbine comprising of a central pile and crossbeam that holds the turbines at the extre
The Orange Blue Terminal (OBT) in Eemshaven, Netherlands will handle and store 77 foundation structures required for the Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm. The onshore project coordination, project engineering and execution are in the hands of OBT, operated by the Hamburg port service provider,
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in Norway, the Atlantic margin and the North Sea, announces the spudding of the Wintershall operated Solberg appraisal well 6407/1-7 (Faroe 20%). The Solberg prospect is l
A Hydrex diver/technician team mobilized to St. Malo, France, in January to perform an emergency repair operation on a 132-meter dry cargo vessel. When the rudder of the vessel was severely damaged during a heavy storm it came loose and was swinging dangerously from side to side during sailing, hitt
Iona Energy Inc. (“Iona” or the “Company”) announces an operational update related to its Huntington Oil Field located in the UK North Sea. During Q4 2013, Iona produced on average 3,280 boepd as Huntington ramp-up continued to increase following the previously announced curtailment of production by
Havila Shipping ASA achieved a profit before tax of NOK 4.3 m in Q4 2013, compared with NOK 11.0 m in Q4 last year. Year to date, the profit before tax was NOK 93.4m, compared with NOK 17.8m per 31/12/12. Total operating income and gains was NOK 360.2m in the Q4 of 2013. Total operating […]
Fugro has been awarded two contracts to perform cable burial and survey operations at two wind farm sites in the UK. The first contract is for CT Offshore A/S at RWE Innogy’s Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm located in Liverpool Bay off the North Wales coast. The work involves the burial and post-buri
STATS were contracted by a major oil producer to supply high pressure isolation plugs to provide a double block and bleed isolation barrier for the safe tie-in of a replacement section of the main 24-inch oil export line from the platform, without having to de-oil the entire 80km pipeline. To facili
Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) announced the agreement to install a new submarine cable named AAE-1. The agreement was signed in Hong Kong with 17 operators, and the cable is expected to link countries of the Far East to Europe through the Middle East and Africa. The submarine cable will be layed over a d
Less than two years after Ocean Installer’s first vessel went into offshore operations, Ocean Installer can mark 1000 vessel days completed. And that with an excellent HSEQ record. In May 2012, Ocean Installer entered into offshore operations, with the company’s first long-term chartered vessel, Nor
Efforts to lower the cost of offshore wind energy have taken a step forward with the SPARTA (System Performance, Availability and Reliability Trend Analysis) project, which will create a database for sharing anonymised offshore wind farm performance and maintenance data. The project was launched tod
