An offshore subsea trenching specialist is hoping to expand its footprint in the green energy market with a new owner… (nebusiness) [mappress] Source: nebusiness , June 17, 2011;
Statoil wants to compress gas on the seabed to boost recovery. Subsea compression was recently selected as the preferred concept for Gullfaks. “Gas compression on the seabed represents an important advance in technology, and once again, Statoil is leading the way for development of new technology. T
SeeByte, the global leader in creating smart software technology for unmanned systems, has been named winner of the Business Impact Achieved award at the Impact Awards Ceremony hosted in Glasgow by PraxisUnico. This award recognises projects that have made an outstanding business impact through succ
Havyard Ship Technology Leirvik`s newbuild 101 Havila Subsea, a Havyard 855 IMR design, was named in a ceremony in Stavanger, Norway . After the naming ceremony Havila Subsea will be operating on a long-term contract between Havila Shipping ASA and Subsea 7. The vessel is a subsea vessel performing
Hibernia Atlantic, the only American-owned, diverse transatlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider, announces another important milestone in its Project Express cable build; its deep-sea submarine survey is now underway. A critical step in this historic build, the submarine survey will use speci
The Directors to Kvaerner’s Board have been elected. From Kvaerner’s first day of trading on the Oslo Stock Exchange in July 2011, the Board of Directors will consist of five shareholder-elected members as well as three members elected by Kvaerner’s employees. The shareholder-elected members are Kje
A/S Norske Shell (Shell) has been granted consent for use of the mobile well intervention facility Island Constructor for maintenance of subsea facilities on the Draugen field. In September 2010, Shell was granted consent to perform maintenance on wells A55H and B2H. However, the work was postponed.
Specialist renewable energy consulting firm PMSS unveiled their brand new Marine Archaeological Service and announces the recruitment of John Gribble and Stuart Leather to lead the service. They join PMSS to take a leading role in establishing this new service and strengthen our client’s onshore and
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a call-off contract under the offshore engineering and construction Frame Agreement with DONG Energy for the Siri Caisson Permanent Support Project. The value of the call-off contract is approximately $220 million. The scope involves the engineering, procurement,
The first intrarussian offshore gas pipeline Dzhubga–Lazarevskoye–Sochi was put into operation in Sochi on June 6. The ceremony dedicated to this event was attended by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Chairman of the Gazprom Committee Aleksey Miller, and representatives of construction compani
Conductor Installation Services Ltd (CIS), an Acteon company, announced an historic HSE milestone for the company: six years without a single accident or incident resulting in a Lost Time Incident (LTI). As a result, for the second consecutive year CIS received the prestigious Gold Award for Occupat
An international team of researchers led by University of Ulster Professor Andrew Cooper is about to embark on a voyage of underwater discovery that will establish whether Ireland was ever joined to Britain by a land bridge. The aim of the three year project is to determine just how far sea level fe
Subsea companies will find out about the future drivers for the industry in both oil and gas and renewables at a lunch this week… (subseauk) [mappress] Source: subseauk , June 13 , 2011;
Fugro Subsea Services mobilised the RRS Ernest Shackleton in Aberdeen for a season of inspection projects in the North Sea. The program will include both pipelines and fixed structures inspections for a number of Fugro Subsea Services North Sea clients. Project Manager Jim Taylor was quick to heap p
