Leading global companies Costain, Atkins, and Van Oord have reached agreements to partner with Tidal Lagoon Power Limited to design, build and deliver the world’s first tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay, Wales as the company prepares for formal consultation due to begin on Thursday 4 July. Costain is one
Harkand has secured a multi-million pound subsea inspection, repair and maintenance contract. Under the deal with Apache North Sea, the diving support vessel Harkand Atlantis will be deployed to carry out work in the Beryl field, located 350 km north-east of Aberdeen. The sixth largest oil field in
On June 28th, 2013, the second in a series multipurpose salvage vessel “Spasatel Kavdejkin” set off on builder’s sea trials. The vessel, which has the capacity of 4 MW, is being built at Nevsky Shipyard. The project MPSV07 is developed by Marine Engineering Bureau-Design-SPb, JSC. The multipurpose s
FoundOcean continues to grow its market share in the offshore renewables industry with a contract award from Alstom to grout the foundations for the first offshore trial of its 6MW Haliade 150 turbine. The turbine will be located near Ostend, 45 km off the Belgian coast. The offshore tests will targ
Government ministers, including energy minister Michael Fallon, and MPs will this week be warned that failure to support subsea technology and skills programmes could impact on UK oil production levels and export revenues. At a reception in Westminster on Wednesday 3rd of July, Subsea UK will unveil
Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce and Natural Resource Committees, issued the following statement following passage of H.R. 2231, Offshore Energy and Jobs Act. The bill would expand leasing for offshore drilling to the Atlantic Coast, which Pallo
CGG announced that ARGAS, its joint venture with TAQA in Saudi Arabia, has signed a cooperation agreement with the King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in Jeddah. The agreement is the culmination of two years of informal cooperation between the ARGAS Technology Center in Al Khobar and KAU’s Faculty of Ea
Rosneft starts field seismic prospecting at the license blocks Lisyansky, Kashevarovsky and Magadan-1. Rosneft holds geological study at the blocks jointly with its partner Statoil ASA (Norway). Currently 2D seismic along with shipborne gravity magnetic survey are planned for the blocks. The data is
PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd has incorporated a new wholly-owned subsidiary, VESTIGO Petroleum Sdn Bhd, to focus on Development and Production activities from small, marginal and mature fields in Malaysia and abroad. VESTIGO aims to optimise production from clusters of small, marginal and mature fields
James Fisher and Sons plc announces that its subsidiary Strainstall Limited (“Strainstall”) has been awarded a contract through Hyundai Heavy Industries to provide Total with an Integrated Marine Management System for their Moho Nord Tension Leg Platform (“TLP”) destined for installation off the Con
NOAA is seeking public input on a proposed process and associated criteria to evaluate potential new national marine sanctuaries in the nation’s marine and Great Lakes environments. NOAA will finalize the proposed process and criteria upon receiving public comment. NOAA will then consider whether to
BG Group has signed an agreement with technology provider AGR Enhanced Drilling for Riserless Mud Recovery services (RMR®) and the firm’s Cuttings Transport System (CTS®). These solutions will be used on a multi-well drilling campaign on the Knarr Field, located in the Norwegian North Sea. Enhanced
Aker Solutions has won a contract worth up to USD 440 million (approximately NOK 2.7 billion) to deliver the subsea production system for an oil field development in the UK North Sea. The delivery includes 25 subsea trees and six template manifolds. It also encompasses associated controls, wellheads
1. PSA Investigates Incident on DSV Skandi Arctic in North Sea An investigation has been launched by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway into a serious incident on diving support vessel Skandi Arctic on 22 June 2013. 2. Subsea 7 Provides Update on Guará-Lula NE Project Offshore Brazil Subsea 7 S.A
