Subsea UK held its Annual General Meeting at the Gordon Highlander’s Museum in Aberdeen. 10 new board members were elected by member companies by ballot vote to represent the company and, by proxy, the subsea industry, going forward. The new appointments will add their individual skillsets and talen
A Combination of fast working, high-quality design and service won joint integrity specialist Hydratight a crucial commission at a major BP pumping station in Aberdeen. Hydratight was approached to design, build, test and install a custom-engineered 24in MORGRIP weldless connector in only 10 weeks.
The SMart Wind consortium, led by Mainstream Renewable Power and the Project and Structured Finance unit of Siemens Financial Services, has secured grid capacity for the second gigawatt (GW) of its 4GW Hornsea offshore wind development off the Yorkshire coast. This second grid connection for the off
Aberdeen-based Veripos, the leading supplier of GNSS positioning services to the world offshore industry, has appointed Angus Scott as Regional Manager of its Europe, Africa and Middle East (EAME) division. Reporting to company Managing Director Walter Steedman, he will be responsible for continued
Today, the plan for development and operation (PDO) of Atla was approved by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. This will be the first field development Det norske participates in. It represents Det norske´s debut, and the first out of many to come over the next few years. The plan for development
SeeByte, the global leader in creating smart software technology for unmanned systems, and VideoRay the world leader in Inspection Class-ROV technology, have announced their decision to enter a partnership with the aim of developing solutions to improve value to their customers. The decision follows
British tidal energy company, Marine Current Turbines Ltd, announces that Siemens is increasing its share in the company to 45%. “With this increase in its stake, Siemens is strengthening its activities in ocean power generation. We will actively shape the commercialization process of innovative mar
Octio will do a pilot project to assess the permanent monitoring of CO2 storage under the seabed for CLIMIT. CLIMIT is a program to encourage commercial development of technology for capturing and storing CO2; administered jointly by Gassnova and the Norwegian Research Council. When CO2 is stored un
Mike Caraher is a surveyor with 13 years experience, latterly working at director level in the offshore and coastal surveying environment. Mike has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with Osiris Projects, originally working on a variety of coastal survey projects as a specialist sub-contractor. Os
With LoFS 14 now completed on schedule and without incident this closes another successful year of operating the portable source system for BP Norge AS, operator of the Valhall Field. LoFS 14 was WGP’s third operational survey of the Valhall field utilising the source sub-arrays of Thalassa Energy S
Aker Solutions’ operating revenues in the third quarter of 2011 were NOK 8.56 billion. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation amounted to NOK 322 million. Order intake in the quarter was NOK 8 billion. “Our subsea challenges in Brazil are well known. We are working on a number
After the end of the third quarter, contracts have been completed for all vessels in GC Rieber Shipping’s portfolio. Order backlog has been increased by half a billion, compared with the previous quarterly reporting. – This gives us an excellent starting point for the future in a turbulent period, s
TGS reports net revenues of USD 160 million in Q3 2011, compared to USD 130 million in Q3 2010, a 23% increase. Investments were USD 111 million, up 77%. These investments were a record for the Company in a single quarter and resulted in a record high number of vessels utilized in a quarter. [&helli
The relocation of the approx 5,000 stones at the surface of the seabed, which may cause problems to the wind turbine and cable installation, is well underway. However, a number of planned wind turbine positions are presently being screened with advanced sonar equipment to unveil any critical stones
