Subsea
Sonar Equipment Services Delivers First Multi-Sensor ROV Survey Package
Great Yarmouth-based Sonar Equipment Services has successfully delivered its first multi-sensor ROV survey package to Calecore’s marine survey division, Calesurvey. The leading supplier of marine survey equipment to the offshore energy industry has integrated, tested and mobilised a complex array of
Faroe Petroleum Reports Unaudited Interim 1H Results
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas group focused on oil and gas exploration and production in the Atlantic margin, Norway and the North Sea, announces its unaudited Interim Results for the six months ended 30 June 2013. The Company reports Revenue at £89.0million (1H2012: £90.6million) and
Fergus Ewing Keynote Speaker at Offshore Decommissioning Conference
Oil & Gas UK and Decom North Sea, co-organisers of the Offshore Decommissioning Conference, have confirmed that Fergus Ewing MSP, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism will deliver the keynote address at this year’s event, sponsored by Ernst & Young LLP. The conference will take place at the F
Kongsberg Mesotech Launches New Software for M3 Sonar
Kongsberg Mesotech Ltd., a Kongsberg Maritime subsidiary and a leader in the underwater acoustic industry, announces the release of M3 Sonar Software V1.4 with a split-beam profiling mode and improved GeoTIFF export capabilities. Developed to support various applications, the new software features p
Stainless UK Produce Profiled Plates for Undersea CPT Testing System
Stainless UK has manufactured stainless steel profiled plates to be used as thruster back plates and gussets on a deep water subsea CPT testing system rig. Cone Penetration Testing was developed in the 1950s as a method of establishing the bearing capacity of soft ground into which foundation piles
Expro Presented with ROSPA Scotland Trophy
Leading international oilfield services company, Expro, has received another major acknowledgement for its approach to occupational health and safety management from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). Expro was presented with the prestigious RoSPA Scotland Trophy at the chari
Italy: 40SouthEnergy Starts R115 Wave Device Deployment Activities
40SouthEnergy has begun to work on the deployment of the R115 wave energy device at Punta Righini, Italy. On September 23, the company positioned two guiding buoys for the Meloria pontoon, which traveled the next day from Livorno to Punta Righini, where it was positioned. After the company carried o
Novacavi Launches Aquancable Range for Maritime and Underwater Technologies
Novacavi announces the launch of Aquancable®, a wide range of specialist bespoke cables for maritime and underwater technologies. These include ROV cables, Fiber Optic hybrid cables, umbilicals, subsea armoured cables, subsea detection and instrumentation cables to be suitable in any harsh environme
IET Names New Tidal Energy Project Officer (UK)
The Islay Energy Trust (IET) announces the appointment of Flora McLean as its new Tidal Energy Project Officer. Prior to joining IET, Flora was Director of the Scottish Food and Drink Federation in Edinburgh for 13 years, and earlier spent time working as a researcher in the House of Commons. Flora,
IBERDROLA Launches HiWave Project Development
IBERDROLA INGENIERÍA, in partnership with the Swedish company CorPower Ocean specializing in wave energy converters and the Portuguese marine research centre WavEc, has embarked on the development of the R&D project HiWave, focused on high efficiency wave power. This international initiative aims to
Greenland Sea Deep Water Warming Rates Increase
Recent warming of the Greenland Sea Deep Water is about ten times higher than warming rates estimated for the global ocean. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research recently published these findings in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. For
AquaTerra Strengthens Its Management Team (UK)
As part of its investment planning for future, significant growth, AquaTerra Group has strengthened its management team with a new appointment. Multi Disciplined Industrial Services specialist, Brian Bendel, takes on the new role of Director adding further strength to an already established and valu
Echoscope 3D Sonar Used for Cable Jointing Ops
The ability to join two high voltage cables on a vessel is becoming an increasingly common occurrence in the UK’s offshore wind farm industry. Wind farm sites that are situated a long distance from shore require multiple ‘export cables’ to be laid and later joined together in order to provide a cont
Ecosse Subsea Completes Major Project for Baltic Wind Farm
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has completed a £4.7 million boulder clearing and pre-lay trenching project which it claims has been one of the most successful ever conducted for the wind energy sector. As subcontractor to Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC), the Banchory-based subsea specialist completed 8