Caterpillar Global Petroleum announced it has been awarded the contract from Estaleiro Enseada do Paraguaçu – EEP to provide the diesel generator sets for the main and propulsion power, as well as the emergency power, for six drillships. All six drillships are to be built at Estaleiro Enseada do Par
Alcatel-Lucent and a consortium composed of Vodafone Group, Dialog Axiata, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat), Reliance Jio Infocomm, Omantel and Telekom Malaysia, have signed a turn-key contract to deploy a new 100 Gigabit-per-second (100G) submarine cable system to connect Oman, th
Unique System FZE, a Unique Maritime Group company, is set to conduct National Hyperbaric Centre’s Diver Medic Technician Course starting 19th May 2013. The course is scheduled to run for a period of 2 weeks. The IMCA Diver Medic course is required for divers, as a pre-requisite for diving team sele
As of 2013 Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies (KOGT) is reported as a seperate business area. KONGSBERG had high level of activity in Q1 2013. Operating revenues totalled MNOK 4 033, up 5.1 per cent from Q1 2012. EBITDA came to MNOK 500 in Q1, compared with MNOK 550 in the same period last year. [&hel
Partrac and Rockland Scientific have announced a Strategic Partnership to provide turbulence measurement solutions for the UK and European tidal energy industry. Rockland Scientific, based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, specializes in the design and manufacture of turbulence measurement inst
Aberdeen-based oilfield services firm Coretrax Technology Limited has appointed an operations manager to focus on the planning, development and execution of wellbore cleanup and displacement. In his new role, Jim Hepburn is responsible for the pre and post job analysis of wellbore cleanup activities
The Alu Marine shipyard has completed the construction of two survey launches for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This order was attributed to Alu Marine in spring 2012 following a public tender from the “Congolaise des Voies Maritimes” (CVM). These survey boats will make hydrographic survey
Regarding the sale of FPSO Voyageur Spirit to Teekay Corporation, Sevan Marine announces that the transfer of title to the FPSO Voyageur Spirit to Voyageur LLC is scheduled to take place on Thursday, May 2, 2013. Recently the FPSO began oil production at Huntington field in the Central North Sea. Th
The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) research vessel Kairei has successfully retrieved the sensors from the deepest borehole observatory ever installed from the extreme ocean depths of nearly 7000 meters on 26th April, 2013. The R/V Kairei carried out the complex sequen
BP announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013. Underlying replacement cost profit for the quarter was $4.2 billion, compared to $3.9 billion in the fourth quarter and $4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2012. Operating cash flow in the quarter was $4.0 billion, compared with $3.4
NOAA is using data from a new current meter in New York harbor, operated by one of its academic partners, New Jersey’s Stevens Institute of Technology, to provide enhanced real-time information to mariners travelling through the nation’s second busiest port. The Stevens current meter measures the di
Gardline Marine Sciences, the world’s largest independently owned survey group, and OceanPact, Brazilian leading oil spill response company in Brazil, today announced the establishment of a joint venture. The new company is to be called Gardline Marine Sciences do Brasil S.A, and is a 50/50 joint ve
Chatham Rock Phosphate submitted a draft Environmental Impact Assessment to the Environmental Protection Authority. The EPA is a national-level independent environmental regulation, which has the ability to grant or decline marine consent applications. “This is a major milestone and the culmination
Polarcus Limited, a marine geophysical company which specializes in high-end towed streamer data acquisition, announces the release of its first quarter 2013 financial statements. Highlights in the first quarter 2013: – Revenues of USD 144.8 million, up 45% from Q1 2012 – EBITDA of USD 52.9 million,
