The team from Russian city Vladivostok will take part in Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center’s 12th Annual International Student ROV Competition, which will be held in USA (Tacoma, Washington) from 20-22 June. Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are robots used to complete tasks in unde
Huisman, the worldwide specialist in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions, recently introduced a new series of large offshore cranes. The new series include cranes with lifting capacities ranging up to 900mt and have been developed to meet the increasing demands of the offshore construction and su
Macro Sensors introduces a line of submersible LVDT Position Sensors for use as part of subsea measurement systems. Macro Sensors LVDTs are proven to offer reliable measurement and feedback for continuous monitoring. The SSIR 937 Series Submersible LVDT Position Sensor is now a standard design avail
Statoil has made a discovery of light, high-quality oil in the Flemish Pass Basin, offshore Newfoundland. Oil was encountered while drilling the Harpoon prospect (EL 1112), located approximately 500 kilometres north-east of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. “While it is still too early
Unique Hydra, a Unique Maritime Group Company which is one of the world’s leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution providers, congratulates the DCN Global dive team on the rescue of a crew member onboard a sunken vessel. The DCN Global diving team on board the DPII Vessel “LEWEK TOUCA
Bristol based engineering company Viper Subsea has been nominated by the Prime Minister’s enterprise adviser Lord Young and former Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy as one of Britain’s 250 fastest growing companies with the most potential. Viper Subsea has been invited to become a founding member of Accele
Boskalis announces that Dockwise safely and successfully offloaded the 23,000 ton Lucius spar last week for the Lucius deepwater oil and natural gas project located in the Gulf of Mexico. The Lucius truss spar, measuring 184 meters (605 feet) long and 34 meters (110 feet) in diameter, was loaded ont
Kongsberg Maritime has completed the installation and commissioning of an integrated bridge and automation solution during a large-scale retrofit of the Saipem 7000, an advanced Semi-submersible crane and pipelaying (J-lay) DP3 vessel. The project to equip Saipem 7000 with the latest advanced offsho
Seatronics Ltd., an Acteon company, announces the purchase of more than $1.5 million of advanced sonar imaging systems and associated equipment from EdgeTech. The purchase is part of a multi-million dollar investment by Seatronics which will expand the world’s largest marine equipment rental fleet.
From 20 June to 20 October, a seismic streamer will be installed on the Snorre field in the North Sea. Trawling activity in the area should be avoided during this period. During the period when the streamer is lying exposed on the seabed, before it is covered, it is extremely vulnerable to any type
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project (the Project) cut first steel for the hull of its Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility in Okpo, Korea. With fabrication of the hull underway, work on all of the Project’s major offshore facilities has commenced. The FPSO is being built by
Handling systems specialist, Caley Ocean Systems has been awarded a contract by Subsea 7 to design, manufacture and supply a deepwater lowering system (DLS). The DLS will initially be deployed by Subsea 7 on the Chevron-operated Gorgon project, located off the northwest coast of Western Australia, t
The FPSO P-63 left the Quip/Honório Bicalho shipyard in the city of Rio Grande (RS) on Tuesday (18/06) after the modules were integrated and the platform was commissioned. The P-63 is one of the new units coming on stream in 2013 helping to increase oil production for Petrobras to reach the producti
TGS in partnership with Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) have signed an agreement to jointly invest in a 3D electromagnetic (EM) multi-client survey covering 11 blocks, or approximately 3300 km2, in the Hoop area of the Barents Sea. The 3D EM data is being acquired by the M/V Atlantic Guardian
