Dolphin Group ASA 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, quoted: “Dolphin is extremely app
Deep Sea Supply, a Cyprus-headquartered owner of offshore support vessels, has announced that on Thursday 18 September the company took delivery of the newbuilding Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) ‘Sea Triumph’. The vessel ‘Sea Triumph’ is a STX 05-L design built at Cochin shipyard in India. Main charac
Secretary-General Nii Odunton accompanied by his Deputy and Legal Counsel, Michael Lodge, had the opportunity to visit the Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) facility in Newcastle upon Tyne on 4 September 2014, to get a look at Nautilus Minerals’ Polymetallic Sulphides Mining Technology. The newly assemble
North Sea Energy Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary North Sea Energy (UK N02) Ltd. (“NSE-2”), has announced that the Bagpuss site survey in the UK North Sea has started and should be completed in the next 7 days. The purpose of the survey is to collect high resolution digital seismic, soils d
The British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) and The Crown Estate, have published a new ‘Fifteen-Year Review’ which provides a unique overview of the changes in the area of seabed licensed and dredged between 1998 and 2012, enabling greater understanding of the nation’s marine mineral
Jee Ltd, a subsea engineering and training firm, has been awarded a three-year contract extension from BP with potential value in excess of $7.3 million (£4.5 million). The two companies have had a support contract in place for 10 years, with Jee providing global operations and project support to BP
iSURVEY, a leading provider of survey and positioning services to the global oil and gas, offshore renewables and telecommunications markets has been awarded a two year contract with offshore vessel owner, Island Offshore Management. The two year contract will see iSURVEY AS provide positioning serv
Unique Hydra, a division of Unique Maritime Group (UMG) an integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solutions provider, has been selected by Ultra Deep Solutions (UDS) to design, build and integrate the dive system for a multipurpose Diving Support Construction Vessel (DSCV). The new DSCV is equipped
In August, EIVA and VideoRay executives met at EIVA’s headquarters in Denmark. One of the items on the agenda was the official appointment of EIVA as authorised VideoRay Service Centre. EIVA is a long-standing authorised representative of VideoRay, having sold numerous underwater remotely operated v
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Talisman Energy Norge AS consent to use the Mærsk Giant jack-up drilling rig as living quarters on the Yme field, in the North Sea. The Yme field is in the south-eastern section of the North Sea in 77-93 metres of water. The field was first devel
Planning consultants Barton Willmore have been commissioned by Aberdeen Harbor, with support from Scottish Enterprise, to consult on a Development Framework that will identify and consider the relationship between the proposed Nigg Bay Harbor expansion and the development of the surrounding areas. T
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has informed that preliminary production figures for August 2014 indicate an average daily production of about 1 842 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate. This is 79 000 barrels per day (about 4 percent) less than in July 2014. Total gas sales were about 7.3 bil
The MegaPEX 2014, a large measurement campaign to study the behavior of the Sand Engine peninsula, both on the beach and in the sea, has just started. The campaign will run till October 27. The Sand Engine is a 128-acre artificial peninsula off the Dutch coast that has been created for an innovative
Ithaca Energy Inc. has announced the successful completion of flow test operations on the fourth development well on the Stella field, in the UK North Sea, with the well achieving a flow rate of 12,005 barrels of oil equivalent per day (“boepd”). Well 30/6a-B2Z (“B2”) is the fourth development well
