Technip inaugurated its Innovation and Technology Center located in France, close to Paris, on a unique site in Rueil-Malmaison. Patrick Ollier, Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison, and Thierry Pilenko, Technip’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, were both present for the occasion. This center already brin
BG Group announced the start of commercial production from a third floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel on the Group’s discoveries offshore Brazil in the pre-salt Santos Basin. The Cidade de Paraty FPSO is the second unit deployed on the giant Lula discovery and is located appro
VSMC recently signed two separate contracts to lay and bury export cables for the Westermost Rough (ENG) and Humber Gateway (ENG) wind farms. With these latest projects, VSMC strengthens its strong position in laying and burying electricity cables in and to offshore wind farms. Westermost Rough Offs
Marin Teknikk AS has entered into a contract with China Merchants Heavy Industry (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd., for delivery of design & engineering of a large Diving & Construction Vessel to Kreuz Subsea Marine Pte Ltd. in Singapore. The vessel will be to the MT6024 DSCV design with an 18 men double diving b
Siemens Mechanical Drives has supplied pioneering tidal technology company Tidal Energy Limited (TEL) with gear units that will be part of the DeltaStream tidal stream generating device due to go on a 12-month trial in Ramsey Sound early in 2014. It will be Wales’ first commercial-scale turbine. The
On April 26, the basic and channel dredging project of Sino-Burma Crude Oil Pipeline Wharf was fully completed, 4 days earlier than the deadline of the contract period, which guarantees the competition of the principal part of the wharf project on May 30. Since its commencement, the basin and channe
After more than a year of preparations and near-shore testing, the Fishermen’s Energy Wind Sentinel buoy was relocated from a test site near Atlantic City to an offshore area leased from the U. S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Located eleven miles east of Ocean C
WGP has signed a binding letter of intent to execute a contract in respect of the second phase of the seismic data acquisition surveys to be conducted in Ecuador. The contract with Sevmoregeo SA (SMG), which is expected to be executed by the end of June, relates to surveys which are planned to comme
Surprisingly large amounts of discarded trash end up in the ocean. Plastic bags, aluminum cans, and fishing debris not only clutter the beaches, but accumulate in open-ocean areas such as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” Now, a paper by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has been contracted to provide the design for a large heavy construction vessel (HCV). The ship is to be built for Subsea 7 S.A., the seabed-to-surface engineering, construction, and services contractor to the offshore energy i
The Asian Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Engineering Exhibition, OGA 2013 opened yesterday with a ceremony sponsored by Global Marine Systems and their joint venture partner SB Submarine Systems. The ceremony was officiated by Petronas Chairman Yang Berbahagia Tan Sri Sidek Hassan. OGA 2013, taking plac
Advancement in technology is permitting the offshore oil and gas industry to move into progressively deeper and colder waters in remote locations. ULSTEIN supports this development by providing products and solutions that contribute to safer, smarter and greener operations. A case in point is the ve
JCU researchers are recording underwater sounds in the Great Barrier Reef to help track animal movements and human activities such as shipping. JCU’s Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture (CSTFA) is collaborating with JASCO Applied Sciences, a world leader in the science of indus
NOAA Fisheries Service is seeking comments on its proposal to make permanent the rules it implemented five years ago to reduce the number of collisions between ships and North Atlantic right whales. Right whales are among the most endangered species in the world, and are highly vulnerable to ship co
