The industry body which represents over 250 companies across the UK has revealed that 10,000 jobs could be created in the sector in the next 12 months. Following a survey, Subsea UK has found that almost one fifth of its membership will need over 2,000 people in the next 12 months to cope with the [
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, will lead a project to develop new technologies to support unmanned naval vehicle missions, following an award of $3 million from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA). The development of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) and Unmanned Underwate
Piriou wins a historic order and breaks into a new market, that of exploration ships. PIRIOU has just signed a contract for the construction of an exploration ship 76 metres in length that it will deliver in 36 months to a European shipowner. The ship will be built in Concarneau (29) by CHANTIERS PI
Green Investment Bank has excluded wave and tidal energy from their plans and said it will focus on other projects reports BBC. Lord Smith of Kelvin, new chairman of GIB, said they will invest a GBP 3 billion budget in projects that will make a commercial return. He outlined “five priority areas. Of
Aker Solutions has been awarded a frame agreement by ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Norway AS. Contract value is undisclosed. The frame agreement covers engineering, procurement, construction and installation for ExxonMobil’s operated assets on the Norwegian continental shelf. The fixed contr
Halfway June APE Holland started on the North Sea near the German island of Borkum with a special offshore project, vibrating 30 steel piles (monopiles) on which 30 windmills will be installed. The piles will be driven with the Super Quad Kong (SQK), an innovative and modular vibratory driver/extrac
EvoLogics GmbH, a german manufacturer of underwater communication and positioning equipment, developed Special Edition underwater acoustic modems for a russian research facility. Providing all the benefits of the standard EvoLogics S2CR modem range, the new EvoLogics S2CR 8/16 SE and 40/80 SE Specia
Today, 26 June, the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE) has announced the 22 nd licensing round on the Norwegian shelf. Eighty-six blocks/parts of blocks are being announced in this round; 14 in the Norwegian Sea and 72 in the Barents Sea. “The interest in exploring in the Barents Sea has increas
Saipem has been awarded new offshore and onshore drilling contracts worth approximately $500 million. In offshore drilling, Saipem has signed a two year extension of the contract with Eni for the charter of Perro Negro 8, which is engaged in activities offshore Italy in the Adriatic Sea. The contrac
Russian shipping company Sovcomflot has placed a USD 1 billion order for construction of four seismographic ships with Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation (OSC), RIA Novosti writes citing Deputy General Director of OJSC United Shipbuilding Corporation Roman Trotsenko. Speaking at the St. Peters
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, has secured a three year agreement with a leading global oil and gas producer for relief well standby wellhead equipment. Plexus will pro
Star Information Systems (SIS), an industry leader in the supply of software and services for technical ship and rig management, has successfully completed the installation of its Star Information & Planning System (Star IPS) across Solstad Offshore’s fleet of 50 high-specification vessels. Solstad,
Dolphin Geophysical in co-operation with Searcher Seismic are about to commence acquisition of 2,000 km2 of high-resolution 3D Multi-Client data over open acreage in the Barents Sea using Dolphin’s 12 streamer high capacity 3D seismic vessel, Polar Duke. The blocks and data coverage were nominated a
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has entered into a data-licensing agreement worth approximately USD 8 million with an oil and gas company, in which the customer will gain access to EMGS’s entire 3D EM multi-client data library on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The agreement includes p
