Subsea
McDermott Opens New UK Base
McDermott International, an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (“EPCI”) company focused on executing complex offshore oil and gas projects worldwide, has officially opened its new UK Office. McDermott’s new office in Epsom, near London, has the latest technology in a bright mode
Polarcus Improves in Q2
Polarcus Limited, a pure play marine geophysical company with a pioneering environmental agenda, specializing in high-end towed streamer data acquisition, has released its second quarter 2014 financial statements. The Company recorded higher revenue per vessel and improved margins in Q2 2014 compare
GOSEA Nets Two Ship Management Gigs
SeaEnergy’s recently established joint venture (JV) GOSeaEnergy Ship Management Limited (GOSEA) has this week been awarded the ship management of two more vessels. GOSEA was established in June 2014, as a JV between Go Offshore (Asia) Pte Ltd. a Singapore based shipping company and SeaEnergy Ship Ma
Schlumberger Awared Drilling Services for Statoil
Schlumberger Norway has been awarded a contract with Statoil to provide integrated drilling services for the Norwegian continental shelf licenses Gullfaks, Gullfaks Satellites, Snorre, Statfjord , Tordis/Vigdis, Visund.The agreement also covers exploration drilling on the Norwegian continental shelf
MRV Alba na Mara in New Subsea Survey (UK)
The MRV Alba na Mara cruise will be conducting the survey below in partnership with Scottish Natural Heritage. The purpose of the cruise is to investigate the distribution and quality of benthic biotopes around Scotland. The data are required to underpin designation and management of the new suit of
DEPLA Anchor Developed for Deep Water Use (AUS)
An innovative offshore anchor designed by researchers at The University of Western Australia has already been snapped up by Dutch anchor specialists Vryhof Anchors. The Dynamically Embedded Plate Anchor (DEPLA) was developed by Associate Professor Conleth O’Loughlin, from UWA’s Centre for Offshore F
Offshore Industry Must Take Better Care of Overweight Workers
The UK oil and gas industry will have to take steps to be more accommodating to overweight employees, a leading North East law firm has said. Kirk Tudhope, employment lawyer and partner with Ledingham Chalmers, explained that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is currently considering whether being
APEM Selected for Seabed Survey (UK)
APEM has won a major contract to collect and analyse over 1,000 samples from the seabed in the eastern English Channel and off the south coast, for eight marine aggregate operators with licensed interests across the region. Offshore surveys organised by APEM will collect 1,060 ‘grab’ samples of the
VIDEO: Foundation Setup on Borkum Riffgrund 1 OWF
Last week, all 77 monopile foundations were successfully installed at the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 1 in the German North Sea. Installation was carried out using a noise mitigation system to lower the impact on adjacent marine life. It is the first time ever that this system has been used
ICOL Invites Companies to Work on Inch Cape OWF
Inch Cape Offshore Limited (ICOL) has launched the Request for Proposals process for the Wind Farm and Transmission Works Packages of the Inch Cape Offshore Wind Project. The Wind Farm package will involve the design, delivery and installation of the WTG Foundations and Substructures and Inter-array
ASV’s C-Enduro Project Success Under SBRI
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) report on the success of C-Enduro under the UK Government backed Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI). ASV designed and built C-Enduro, a long endurance marine unmanned surface vehicle under an SBRI led by the National Oceanogrpahy Centre (NOC) and co-funded
Wärtsilä Nets MPSV Design Contract for Tidewater
A second confirmed design contract for Wärtsilä’s new series of arctic platform supply vessels has been signed. This latest order is for a multi-purpose platform supply vessel (MPSV) being built by Tersan Shipyard in Turkey on behalf of U.S.- based Tidewater Inc, the provider of offshore service ves
Harrier Explorer to Conduct Newgrange Seismic Survey
Providence Resources P.l.c. has delivered an update on Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 6/14 . Providence Resources and Sosina Exploration were originally awarded a licensing option over Newgrange as part of the 2011 Irish Atlantic Margin Licensing Round. Earlier this year, with the agreement of t
Statoil Disappointed with Hoop Summer Campaign
Statoil has together with its partner Idemitsu Petroleum Norge made a small gas discovery in the Mercury prospect in PL614 in the Barents Sea. This completes Statoil’s 2014 exploration programme in the Hoop area. This summer Statoil drilled three exploration wells in the Hoop area in the Barents Sea