Cathie Associates have been appointed by the Marine Environmental Data & Information Network (MEDIN) to create a guideline for offshore geotechnical site investigations. The guideline will form part of the MEDIN framework of specifications that govern best practice in collecting metadata for re-use
The application to surrender the license for the Admiralty Inlet Pilot Tidal Project submitted by the Snohomish County Public Utility District (PUD) has been accepted by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). On December 4, 2015, Public Utility District of Snohomish County, Washington,
Gabon has extended bid submission deadline for participation in the new 11th licensing round which will focus on five blocks covering the country’s deep water acreage in the South Gabon Salt Basin. The round was formally opened on October 27, 2015 by Minister for Petroleum, Etienne Dieudonné Ngoubou
OneSubsea is to invest £1.8 million in a new project for the development of its Standardised Modular Injection System (SMIS). The project, which will create five new jobs and safeguard a further 35, is being supported with a £434,126 R&D grant from Scottish Enterprise. It will be delivered from the
National Grid IFA2 Ltd has presented revised plans for an electricity interconnector between Hampshire in England and Normandy in France during a second series of consultation events. The public was presented with the updated plans for a proposed high voltage electricity link between England and Fra
National Oilwell Varco (NOV) has reportedly developed and validated a predictive solution that can foresee operational failures in subsea blowout preventer (BOP) components. NOV’s RIGSENTRY has been developed to offer a remote condition monitoring service that provides live predictive analytics of s
National Grid IFA2 Ltd has showcased updated plans for a proposed high voltage electricity link between England and France during a series of public consultation events held in the past few days of this month. Made up of subsea cables running between the two countries, the interconnector would be jo
Innosea, an engineering company that offers analysis services in the field of offshore renewables, is conducting tests on Belgian Laminaria wave energy device.
Witt Ltd, the developer behind the technology that converts motional energy into electricity, has hit the £750,000 equity raise target. The Plymouth-based company has launched the equity raise campaign on March 7, 2016, to accelerate the WITT technology manufacturing for its first application as the
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), OMV, and Occidental Petroleum have signed a contract over several undeveloped oil and gas fields in North-West Offshore Abu Dhabi including the Ghasha and Hail areas. An agreement was reached for conducting a four-year seismic, drilling and engineering wor
UK’s Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is nearing the conclusion of a review of all dredging disposal sites in England. The MMO commissioned Cefas to undertake a high level, review of all disposal sites around the country. This review is a desk-based review focusing on marine disposal sites in En
Work is currently underway to use a new hydrodynamic model, called the Scottish Shelf Model (SSM) to model the effect of tidal turbines on the physical marine environment. So far, the model has been used to provide tidal and wave energy resource maps around Orkney, and to study the connectivity of f
DOF Subsea Norway has been awarded a contract by Statens vegvesen (The Norwegian Public Roads Administration) for a seabed mapping survey along the bridge route over the Bjørnafjord crossing. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration plans to construct an approximately 5km long bridge over Bjørnafjo
Subsea engineering and training company, Jee, will host a free-to-attend offshore decommissioning webinar on April 13 2016. The webinar, titled ‘Innovation and efficiency in decommissioning’ will be presented by Head of Late Life, Graham Wilson. It will discuss how decommissioning can be done differ
