Building on the strengths of its consistent-parameter Central North Sea multi-client data coverage, CGG is conducting a large PSDM processing project to upgrade its Cornerstone 3D long-offset dataset. The project will use CGG’s proprietary multi-layered tomography technology TomoML to build a more a
In the last few days on Giglio island platform n° 2 has been installed. It is the fifth of 6 subsea platforms that will provide a safe supporting structure for the wreck after it is rotated into a vertical position (“parbuckling”, as this is known). The platform, which was built at the Rosetti shipy
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a two-year contract extension from BG Group to continue to provide engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and project management support for all of BG Group’s facilities in the central North Sea. The
In order to verify the fact that its Offshore Windfarm Crew Transfer Vessels were among the best in the business, Island Shipping decided to look back through the transfer logs. While operating for 20 months on Sheringham Shoal Offshore Windfarm, the Island Tiger and Island Panther carried out 37,20
In order to verify the fact that its Offshore Windfarm Crew Transfer Vessels were among the best in the business, Island Shipping decided to look back through the transfer logs. While operating for 20 months on Sheringham Shoal Offshore Windfarm, the Island Tiger and Island Panther carried out 37,20
DONG Energy’s unit interest in one of its major assets, the Norwegian gas field Ormen Lange, has increased from 10.34% to 14.02%. The increase in DONG Energy’s unit interest is based on an agreed redetermination process initiated by the Ormen Lange partners and concluded in June 2013 in the form of
On Monday 13 May 2013 the Life Extension Program (LEP) for Walrus class submarines has officially started. During a meeting at the location of the Royal Dutch Navy in Den Helder (the Netherlands), commodore Hans Lodder and Sytze Voulon of Imtech signed the execution order. This order is a follow up
The first commercial offshore wind measurement campaign using floating LiDAR in European waters has kicked off in the Irish Sea. FLiDAR NV has deployed one of its innovative LiDAR buoys for DONG Energy in the southern East Irish Sea. DONG Energy, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, selected
Technip inaugurated its Innovation and Technology Center located in France, close to Paris, on a unique site in Rueil-Malmaison. Patrick Ollier, Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison, and Thierry Pilenko, Technip’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, were both present for the occasion. This center already brin
VSMC recently signed two separate contracts to lay and bury export cables for the Westermost Rough (ENG) and Humber Gateway (ENG) wind farms. With these latest projects, VSMC strengthens its strong position in laying and burying electricity cables in and to offshore wind farms. Westermost Rough Offs
Dolphin Geophysical has secured a 3D award from an undisclosed client in the North Sea. The survey will be acquired by the high capacity 3D vessel M/V Polar Duke, commencing in August for the duration of approximately five weeks. “We now have a full backlog for the Summer Season”, says Håvard Åsli,
Shipyard Zaliv held the launching of the Offshore construction and well intervention vessel “Polar Onyx” built by the order from Norwegian company Ulstein Hull AS, on May 31, 2013. During the six years of Zaliv and Ulstein Hull AS cooperation, fourteen vessels have been built for work in the oil and
Flexlife, a specialist provider of flexible pipe technologies and engineering services, has successfully used its new integrity monitoring technology at Chevron’s Captain field in the UK North Sea. FlexGuard is an early detection system for possible riser integrity issues, designed to provide contin
Det norske oljeselskap ASA has, as partner in PL 265 (20 percent), by core samples confirmed oil shows in weathered and fractured basement rocks in the secondary objective of appraisal well 16/2-17 B. No sandstone reservoir was found in the primary objective. The well is an 800 meter westerly sidetr
