Subsea
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
Australian Navy Divers Prove Deployable Recovery and Salvage Capability
Sea Training Staff from the Australian Mine Warfare and Clearance Diving Task Group have completed the first deployed assessment of the Royal Australian Navy’s Under Water Damage Repair Capability in Cairns. Ten Clearance Divers from Australian Clearance Diving Team Four (AUSCDT FOUR) deployed from
Canada: Suncor Starts Terra Nova FPSO Maintenance
Suncor Energy reports it has begun its planned maintenance program on the Terra Nova Floating Production, Storage and Offloading facility (FPSO), located approximately 350 kilometres southeast of St. John’s, N.L, Canada. The planned maintenance program is expected to last approximately 11 weeks. As
Statoil, Husky Announce Oil Discovery Offshore Canada
Statoil Canada and co-venturer Husky Energy have announced that the first Bay du Nord exploration well has discovered between 300 and 600 million barrels of oil recoverable. The Bay du Nord discovery, located approximately 500 kilometres northeast of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, wa
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,
Deepwater Wind Proposes Route for Transmission Link (USA)
Rhode Island’s State Properties Committee is to examine Deepwater Wind’s request for connecting an offshore wind farm to the grid through Scarborough State Beach, the Providence Journal reports. The company decided to go with burying the cable at the state beach after a strong opposition emerged ove
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
Deepsea Ecosystem May Take Decades to Recover from Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The deepsea soft-sediment ecosystem in the immediate area of the 2010’s Deepwater Horizon well head blowout and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will likely take decades to recover from the spill’s impacts, according to a scientific paper reported in the online scientific journal PLoS One
UNO Receives Financial Support for Turbines Project
The University of New Orleans School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering has received a $121,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop ocean current turbines that will be able to convert the energy of the sea into electricity. The project, “Collaborative Research: Optimized