Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL) welcomes Petrobras, Phillips66 and Inpex as the newest Participant Members and Shareholders. This brings the current Participant membership to a record number of 45, with a further 89 Associates making up a total of 134 in the last quarter of 2012. Petrobras The mul
Rescuers are continuing the search for the survivors of the accident that occured when a cargo ship carrying around 700 tons of gold ore sank last month in the Russia’s Okhotsk Sea. The wreck of the Amurskaya freighter was discovered by divers on the seafloor around 25 meters deep, but they didn’t f
BOURBON has marked growth in third quarter revenues of +21.4% (+13.0% at constant exchange rate). Revenues were up 18.9% over 9 months (+14.0% at constant exchange rate). “In a favorable oil and gas services market, BOURBON’s growth is in line with the BOURBON 2015 Leadership Strategy. Average daily
CGGVeritas announced today the commercial launch of BroadSource™, its broadband marine seismic source. BroadSource is a natural complement for BroadSeis™, its industry-proven broadband marine seismic solution, to produce unrivalled images of the subsurface. BroadSource combines a synchronized multi-
Statoil has completed another successful appraisal well in PL265 in the Johan Sverdrup discovery together with partners Petoro, Det norske oljeselskap and Lundin. The 16/2-14 well was drilled in a northwestern segment about 6 kilometres northwest of the 16/2-6 discovery well and about three kilometr
Being written-off from Baltic Fleet (BF) three years ago due to worn-out condition, frigate Neukrotimy sank on Nov 3. After decommission, the ship was reclassified down to “military property” category and moored at naval harbor of Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region. The frigate was put up for sale. Neukro
Sercel has added SeaPro Design, a new marine survey design software module, to extend the range of capabilities available in SeaPro Nav Suite, its proven marine navigation software portfolio. SeaPro Design is a highly versatile tool for generating everything from simple geometry to complex designs f
Alcatel-Lucent has announced the intention to sell its submarine cable business and a unit that supplies telephone systems to big companies, Reuters reported. According to Goldman Sachs analysts, the sale of the two businesses could raise up to 400 million euros. Alcatel-Lucent’s submarine business
The partners behind plans for Shetland’s first wave power scheme will tell island representatives this week that it is set to ramp up public consultation and environmental research off the south west mainland ahead of a planning application in 2015. The work planned for the Aegir scheme in 2013 will
Decom North Sea (DNS), the offshore oil and gas decommissioning forum, is hosting a Lunch and Learn event which will inform attendees on latest advances in the sector as well as giving advice on how to reduce costs and improve performance. The Lunch and Learn, which takes place this month, will feat
Gassco has recommended that oil from the Edvard Grieg and Ivar Aasen discoveries in the Norwegian North Sea is landed at the Sture terminal near Bergen. The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE) commissioned pipeline operator Gassco in February to assess infrastructure solutions for oil from future
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has completed work on the India-Middle East-Western Europe (IMEWE) Cable Network to upgrade the submarine cable network with 40 gigabits per second (Gbps) dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology. The upgrade involved installation of
Last week the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association gathered business, politics and academia to a dialogue and management forum in Trondheim. The theme of the forum was oil, gas and petroleum related growth in Mid-Norway. Among the companies located in the region Det norske was put out as an example of
Five months after CGGVeritas and Saudi Aramco signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for collaborative research and the development of geophysical acquisition, processing, analysis and interpretation technologies, the two companies have entered into a collaboration to conduct a major joint R&D p
