The economic potential of the emerging marine renewable energy sector in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and neighbouring Brittany was debated at an industry workshop at the Green Cornwall Show. Guest speakers painted an optimistic picture of the evolving opportunities for businesses in the two coa
Statoil has received consent to use pipelines and subsea production facilities at Visund Nord. Visund Nord is in the northern part of the North Sea in production licence 120, where Statoil is the operator. Water depth at the site is approx. 380 metres. The planned start-up is August 2013. The Petrol
MMT announces the purchase of a new MBES Kongsberg EM2040 model – EM2040 dual TX. MMT has in cooperation with Kongsberg Maritime AS, developed a new EM2040 Multibeam model for high-resolution surveys. This new model is specially designed for mapping in high speed and will deliver higher resolution a
The South Stream Project is making good progress and enters an important next phase. Following a recent Board Meeting, South Stream Transport has initiated two tenders, one for the supply of line pipe and another one for the construction of the South Stream Offshore Pipeline through the Black Sea. C
IHC Hydrohammer, part of IHC Merwede, has announced that it will supply piling equipment for the offshore foundation installation of two European offshore wind farm projects to Ballast Nedam Offshore. The long-term rental agreement between two leading companies in the offshore wind energy market is
Global supplier of fluid transfer systems FES International has won a £2m contract to supply BG Norway with 6 Automatic DBSCs. FES will supply an array of Automatic DBSCs to contractors NOV/Subsea 7 for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel operating in the Knarr field, in the
N-Sea re-introduces the unique and revolutionary TUP Diving System® for its offshore activities. The TUP (Transfer Under Pressure) Diving System®, designed and built in house by N-Sea, has an extensive track record with over 10,000 incident free dives to date. The system, has undergone a comprehensi
In a recent tender procedure JDR Cables secured a £330,000 contract from Tidal Energy Limited (TEL) for the design, manufacture and delivery of a submarine cable connecting the DeltaStream unit to the shore. An initial 400KW full scale single turbine unit will be installed as part of the first phase
Despite a major dredging project in the Gladstone harbour, an independent seagrass study conducted by James Cook University has found the Gladstone harbour is one of the few locations along the developed Queensland coast where seagrasses have shown recovery since the 2010/11 floods. Gladstone Ports
CNOOC Limited announced that its parent company, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has signed production sharing contract (PSC) with PetroBroad Copower Limited (PetroBroad Copower) for Block 28/03 in Pearl River Mouth Basin. Block 28/03 is located in Pearl River Mouth Basin in the east
A novel Ocean Sentinel instrumentation buoy has been developed by NNMREC and AXYS Technologies for WEC testing. The Ocean Sentinel is a surface buoy, based on the 6-meter NOMAD (Navy Oceanographic Meteorological Automatic Device) buoy design. This instrumentation buoy facilitates open-ocean, stand-a
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited announces that it has placed an order for the tether of its proprietary CETO system. An order has been placed for the Perth Wave Energy Project tether with Subsea Riser Products Ltd (SRP), a UK based specialist supplier of hardware for critical offs
Tower Resources plc (“Tower”), the AIM listed Africa focused oil and gas exploration company, announces the following update with respect to its Licence 0010 in the Walvis Basin, Offshore Namibia. The drilling of the Welwitschia-1 well is now planned to commence in mid-February 2014 and a firm rig i
Saipem, regarding the incident that occurred on July 1st to the jack up drilling rig Perro Negro 6, which was operating between the coasts of Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo, near the mouth of the Congo River, announces the following updates: the search for the missing person, of Bulgari
