Sembmarine SLP Limited has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the China Shipbuilding Corporation, Zhengzhou Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, with a view to cooperate and promote products and services for use in offshore construction projects, specifically in regard t
GUE divers visit three popular dive sites in Bimini, Bahamas where dredging is currently underway at a new resort. The divers are working on the initiative of Project Baseline under the nonprofit organization Global Underwater Explorers. GUE. As can be seen in the video, the first dive site. Sharksh
DNV GL is celebrating both its 150th anniversary as well as the first anniversary since forming the world’s leading certification body in June. To mark this occasion, DNV GL is inviting those interested in the issues shaping the future to its Innovation Day, taking place on 25 June 2014 at DNV GL’s
NIWA scientists are this month launching some cutting-edge technology capable of finding out what’s going on at the bottom of the ocean. Two plastic-encased glass balls, measuring 35 cm in diameter, will be deployed from NIWA’s flagship research vessel Tangaroa east of the Kermadec Trench in a scien
For decades now, the University of Hawaii at Mānoa has been at the forefront of microbial oceanography, the study of microscopic organisms, or microorganisms, in the sea. Because of the cutting edge research done at the university’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology and C-MORE, the Ce
Pancontinental Oil and Gas NL has advised that, after lengthy analysis, it has been verified that the recently completed Sunbird-1 well off the southern Kenyan coast has intersected an oil column the first ever oil discovered off the East African coast. The gross oil column is assessed to be 14m thi
TGS, a geophysical company that provides multi-client geoscience data to oil and gas exploration and production companies worldwide, has started the acquisition of a new 3D multi-client survey in the West of Shetland region. The survey will cover 2,500km(2) and will tie into TGS’ existing 3D library
New research into the proportion of time semi-enclosed water bodies are connected to the ocean has found that the greater the connectivity, the greater the presence of the non-native crab species carcinus maenas. This finding lends itself to the management of approximately 90 coastal lakes and lagoo
Maersk Oil UK has awarded Ramboll Oil & Gas the detailed design for the Culzean wellhead jacket. The project, which was won in tight international competition, marks Ramboll’s first major involvement in the Culzean field, and it also marks the largest substructure design by Ramboll for the North Sea
DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy experts (uniting Garrad Hassan, KEMA, DNV, GL Certification), will be participating at the WINDFORCE conference 2014 in Bremen between the 17th-19th June 2014 (stand C51 in Hall 5). As the topic of cost reduction continues to define the offs
On June 16th, 2014 within the frame of the World Petroleum Congress Rosneft President, Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin, PetroVietnam Oil Corporation President and General Director Dr. Do Van Hau and General Director of JSC Zarubezhneft Igor Kudryashov signed a Memorandum of Understandin
Sercel has launched QuietSea™, its new passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) system designed to detect the presence of marine mammals during seismic operations. Totally different from other commercially available PAM systems, QuietSea is set to revolutionize PAM within the seismic industry. Unlike other
Following the successful deployment of the world’s first community owned tidal turbine in Shetland, Nova Innovation (Scotland) and ELSA (Belgium) have secured funding to construct the Shetland Tidal Array, potentially the world’s first in-sea tidal array. The £3.75M investment package supported by S
Chatham Rock Phosphate Limited (CRP) advises that the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has now publicly notified CRP’s marine consent application to mine phosphate nodules from the Chatham Rise in New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone. The public notification in major daily newspapers means
