Babcock has successfully completed the first phase of a contract awarded by Shell, to integrate a novel self-stabilising gangway system onboard the subsea construction vessel MV Island Enforcer, providing pedestrian access for workers from vessel to offshore platform as required. The integrated syst
Miclyn Express Offshore (“MIO”) announces that through its Thai Joint Venture, Uniwise Offshore, it has been awarded a 3 year firm contract, plus 2 x 1 year extension options, to provide coil tubing marine support services to Chevron`s production activities in the Gulf of Thailand. Uniwise Offshore
Odyssey Marine Exploration, pioneers in the field of deep-ocean exploration, announced it has executed a contract with JBR Recovery Limited to support the logistics, refining and monetization of the anticipated silver cargoes from SS Gairsoppa and SS Mantola when recovered. Both the Gairsoppa and Ma
Van Oord said it has been awarded a significant dredging contract in Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. This contract forms part of the Ichthys LNG Project, a joint venture between INPEX (operator) and TOTAL. INPEX is Van Oord’s client. The value of the contract amounts to EUR 567 millio
WGP Exploration announces two contract awards with TGS-Nopec for the provision of marine gravity equipment for their on-going multi-client projects in the North Sea. The projects, which commenced in late May, have an anticipated duration of six weeks and two months respectively. Complimenting marine
EMGS announces that it has signed a contract extension worth approximately USD 39 million with PEMEX, one of the world’s largest national oil companies. “This contract extension is an endorsement of our technology and the value that EM delivers in hydrocarbon exploration. PEMEX and EMGS have worked
Seaborn Networks announced that Sidera Networks will be making a long-‐term, capacity purchase on Seaborn’s US-‐Brazil submarine cable system. Seaborn Networks’ cable system, Seabras-1, is a new 32 Tbps submarine cable that will be the first direct route between Sao Paulo, Brazil and the United St
Maritime Institute in Gdańsk has announced a tender of a total value of 463,226 EUR (580.000 USD). The project includes the work of supply and installation of a stand-alone platform for ROV sampling and phyto-zoobenthos and marine environment measurements and the installation on board the awarding v
University of Gdańsk has announced a tender invitation for the supply of a research vessel. This specialized research vessel would be used for operations in the Baltic Sea. The vessel should be a specialized catamaran for scientific research, inter-disciplinary marine research and training students.
Statoil of Norway said it has this week signed an agreement to deliver LNG to Petronas at their LNG import terminal in Malaka. “We have had a very good cooperation with Petronas for many years and are very excited to land our first Asian LNG supply agreement with them,” says Eldar Sætre, executive v
Ciena® Corporation, the network specialist, announced its collaboration with the LION2 consortium on the recently inaugurated second phase of the LION (Lower Indian Ocean Network) submarine cable project in Africa. As part of the project, Ciena’s intelligent optical switching solution – already depl
CGGVeritas announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Saudi Aramco for collaborative research and development of geophysical acquisition, processing, analysis and interpretation technologies. The MOU creates a framework for Saudi Aramco and CGGVeritas to identify opportuni
Aker Solutions has been awarded two contracts from Island Offshore to provide well intervention services for Statoil in the North Sea. Scope of work is to deliver downhole well intervention services from Island Offshore’s two riserless well intervention vessels Island Frontier and Island Wellserver.
Nexans, a worldwide leading expert in the cable industry, has secured a 16 million Euro contract with Statoil to engineer and supply a 16.5km subsea power umbilical that will be used to connect the Gullfaks C platform in the North Sea to its subsea compression and processing equipment. The Gullfaks
