Vroon has informed the company’s ERRV, VOS Fairness, has safely arrived in Aberdeen, following her long journey from Nanjing East Star Shipyard in China.
Polarcus has completed acquisition of a major new 3D broadband multi-client project in the southern Porcupine Basin, offshore SW Ireland. The extensive survey, undertaken in partnership with ION GeoVentures, saw the technologically-advanced 3D seismic vessel Polarcus Amani tow an ultra-wide 1,350m r
German engineering giant Siemens said it has entered into an agreement to buy Dresser-Rand, a U.S. oil, gas and small-scale LNG equipment maker. Siemens’ bid was unanimously supported by Dresser-Rand’s Board of Directors. The offer price is $83 per common share in cash, or a total transaction value
Global energy company Repsol has selected Deep Sea Mooring (DSM) to provide a range of mooring services for their drilling operations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. DSM will be responsible for marine engineering and supplying the mooring equipment. The company will also assist in offshore opera
A new compressor will help boost the recovery rate and accelerate production on the Kvitebjørn field offshore Norway, Statoil has said.
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in Norway and the UK, announces the sale of its ten percent interest in the undeveloped West of Shetland Glenlivet gas field to Total E&P UK Limited. The consideration for
1. Subsea 7 Reduces Norwegian Workforce Oil services company Subsea 7 is reportedly reducing its Norwegian workforce between 100 and 150 employees due to project delays. 2. Scientists Find Large Submarine Canyon in Med A massive underwater canyon has been discovered in the Mediterranean near Italy b
North Energy has informed that as a partner in production licence 713, in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway, the company is completing the drilling of the Pingvin prospect in exploration well 7319/12-1. The well has identified gas in a sandstone reservoir. Extensive data has been acquired from the we
SEGC Topo has, through tender procedure, secured a contract by Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur for bathymetric survey services. The contract has a value of approximately $137,000 (106,000 EUR). The work consists of bathymetry surveys of the seabed in the region of the Metropolis Nice Cote d’Azur, includi
UK Ministry of Defence, Ships from Bristol has issued a tender for the provision of unmanned underwater vehicles. The tenders are required to supply two unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) with side scan sonar and bathymetric capability (conductivity and temperature Sensors), navigation system, thro
MacArtney Norge AS has, through tender procedure, secured a contract for the supply of electro-optical cables for the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research’s (IMR) MUST system on the “G.O. Sars” research vessel. The contract has a value of approximately 965,000 NOK (152,217 USD). MUST (Multi-Usage
The Environment Agency and Leicester City Council will start work to help reduce flood risk in Leicester on Monday, 22 September. The work will take place on a section of the River Biam near the Great Central Way and will remove a build up of silt from the 2 southernmost arches of the Biam Bridge. [
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has received a contract from an oil and gas company worth USD 1.0 million for acquisition of 3D EM data in the Norwegian Sea. The Company will be using the vessel Atlantic Guardian. Acquisition is scheduled to be completed early in October, after which the vess
Dolphin has received confirmation from the Export Control Division of the Norwegian Foreign Department that the recently announced contract in the Kara Sea is not subject to the current trade restrictive measures against Russia. Atle Jacobsen, Dolphin CEO, stated: “Dolphin is extremely appreciative
