Subsea
HYPACK Combines with Diver6
HYPACK, a software developer for the hydrographic and dredging industry, has recently finished testing the Diver6.DLL using a simulator and reading the network datagrams into HYPACK. Diver6 is a diver and dive operations mobile support system, which allows dive masters to monitor and track divers be
Aqueos Takes Delivery of SPLASH Liveboating DSV
Aqueos Corporation, a subsea services provider, announced the delivery of SPLASH™, a Special Purpose Liveboat and Survey Hull to specifically address safety concerns with traditional methods of Liveboating. SPLASH™, a purpose built vessel with twin jet drive propulsion, addresses and mitigates inher
Badger Explorer Gets Statoil Boost
Badger Explorer (BXPL) has signed an agreement with Statoil, whereby the oil company will sponsor the first phase of the Badger Explorer Development Program. The objective of the Development Program is to further develop, design and qualify technologies and solutions for a commercial Badger Explorer
TAP Calls for Bids for Offshore Pipeline EPCI
Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) has issued an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) for the offshore section of the project. TAP’s 36-inch offshore part across the Adriatic Sea, between the coastlines of Albania and southern Italy, will be app
NorSea UK Wins Renee and Rubie Decom Gig
NorSea Group (UK) has won North-east Scotland’s first major “small piece” decommissioning contract. Work has already begun on the six-month project which is being carried out at NorSea Group’s Peterhead facility on behalf of Endeavour Energy and involves safe disposal of subsea manifolds and associa
PHOTO: Ivar Aasen Steel Jacket in Place
The steel jacket of the Ivar Aasen platform was lifted in place early this morning (June 10, 2015), and is now ready to be completed with the platform deck, which is under production on the SMOE yard in Singapore. The SSCV Thialf lifted the steel jacket slowly down to the seabed at 112 meters depth.
New Module for NaviPac from EIVA and Subsea 7
EIVA has launched a new module for the offshore navigation solution NaviPac, developed in close collaboration with Subsea 7. The Bundle Monitor module has undergone numerous field tests in connection with the offshore transportation and installation of a pre-assembled six-kilometer pipeline bundle.
Statoil Makes New Appointments
Norway’s Statoil has elected Øystein Løseth as its new chair and Roy Franklin as a new member and deputy chair of the company’s board of directors. Øystein Løseth has been a member of Statoil ASA’s board of directors since 1 October 2014 and is a member of the board’s audit committee. Roy Franklin w
Providence Discovers New Fan Prospect in Porcupine Basin
Providence has recently completed an initial assessment of the Paleocene section within Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 2/14 in the southern Porcupine Basin, using the newly acquired Polarcus MC3D seismic reflection data. This interpretation has confirmed the presence of a large c. 400 km2 Paleoc
ABPmer Welcomes Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon Permission
ABPmer has welcomed the decision by the energy and climate change secretary to grant planning permission to the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project in South Wales. ABPmer has been providing marine environmental advice and support to the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project since 2012. Bill Cooper, Managing
WATCH: Rough Sea Conditions in MH370 Search
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has released new videos showing the weather conditions the vessels are encountering in the southern Indian Ocean. The search for the missing Malaysian Airline MH370 has now covered more than 50,000 square kilometers of the seafloor, and the operation ext
NOAA Expands Two National Marine Sanctuaries
The expansion of Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones national marine sanctuaries off northern California takes effect today, following a 45-day period of Congressional review, NOAA announced. The expansion will help protect the region’s marine and coastal habitats, biological resources and speci
Diving Firm to Pay for Propeller Death Incident (NZ)
Whangarei diving company The Dive Spot Limited has been fined $50,000 and co-director and skipper Mark Andrew Barnes fined $25,000 after the death of diver Bruce Porter on 7 February 2014. Reparations of $50,000 and $30,000 are also to be paid by The Dive Spot Limited and Barnes, respectively. Porte
Polarcus, TGS Ink 2016 Vessel Charter Agreement
Polarcus has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA (TGS) for the charter of an estimated six months of 3D vessel capacity from Polarcus in 2016 in order to acquire a number of individual projects in line with the TGS 2016 investment plan. Under the terms of the LOI,