Norway-based boat handling system and specialised davit supplier Vestdavit has been contracted by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry on behalf of Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) to design and supply extra-long outreach workboat/lifeboat/FRC davits for PGS’s 5th generation Ramform new building seismic vessels. T
A Turkish oil exploration vessel left the Aegean port of Izmir on Friday to carry out surveys off northern Cyprus amid tensions with Greek…
Seen as ideal for shallow water wind turbine construction work, four specially designed leaner versions of the Saab Seaeye Cougar XT ROV … SubseaUK [mappress] Source: SubseaUK, September 23, 2011;
Mindef invites tender for supply and maintenance of underwater acoustic positioning systems for Toulon area in France. Value of tender is between 200,000 and 2,000,000 EUR, and project period is 48 months from date of contract award. Tender deadline is 3.11.2011. Underwater Acoustic Positioning Syst
Five Oceans Services GmbH announced that the Company’s shareholder and board of directors approved a name change to Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH. Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC), formerly Five Oceans Services, is an experienced submarine cable and subsea umbilical installation, repair and maintena
Houlder has announced senior appointments within its Oil and Gas team. Garry Kennie has been appointed as Project Director, Subsea and Drilling whilst Kinsley Weatherhead has been appointed Project Director, Marine. Both Garry and Kinsley are based in the Houlder office in Aberdeen. Garry, who has w
Statoil has received consent to use the gas pipeline, Troll P12 Pipeline. The Troll field is located about 63 kilometres west of Kollsnes, and consists of production licences 054 and 085. The P12 gas pipeline was installed in April 2011 by Solitaire, the world’s largest pipe-laying vessel. The pipel
A European “supergrid” connecting the electricity network of Britain to those of mainland Europe could cut the cost of connecting offshore… By Alex Morales (bloomberg) [mappress] Source: bloomberg, September 22, 2011;
Nexans, a worldwide leading expert in the cable industry, has been awarded a 3 million euro turnkey contract to supply lead-in cable systems for the advanced GeoStreamer seismic array technology that Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) is deploying on its fleet of offshore survey vessels. The contract pro
Veidekke Entreprenør AS has entered into a contract with Statoil ASA in connection with the construction of a new test facility for a subsea compressor at K-lab on Kårstø. The total value of the contract is approx. NOK 115 million, excluding VAT. K-lab is Statoil’s specialised laboratories for larg
International Underwater Storage Ltd publishes a Paper for an Undersea Surveillance Barrier, based on its CHECKMATE undersea platform, suitable for screening a port facility. The proposal provides for a triple barrier with detection modules at 5, 13 and 24 kms offshore from the focal point. The tabl
The 2,000 Megawatt (MW) power cable linking the British and French power markets has shut for a maintenance outage on Wednesday and Thursday…
WGP Exploration Ltd announces operations of the third Life of Field Seismic (LoFS) survey over the Valhall field in the North Sea. The survey was mobilised on August 23rd and is now nearing completion. In 2003 Life of Field Seismic was permanently installed with 120kms of Ocean Bottom Cable over the
One of the artificial harbours that played a pivotal role in supplying the Allied forces who landed on D-day is to be surveyed using the latest hydrography software and survey techniques. In 1944, two artificial harbours, called Mulberries, were towed across the English Channel to help supply the Al
