FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has signed a four year frame agreement with Petrobras to provide subsea services for its fields offshore Brazil. Under the terms of the agreement, FMC Technologies will provide equipment commissioning and offshore technical services in addition to maintenance
HVPD, a company with over 15 years of experience in offshore and onshore PD test services developed the offshore wind farm subsea HVAC and MVAC cable monitoring. HVPD’s new integrated Offshore High Voltage Network Monitoring System (OHVMS) addresses the emerging industry demand for a holistic condit
Federal Research Minister Johanna Wanka, together with representatives of the State of Lower Saxony and the Meyer shipyard, held the keel laying of the new deep-sea research vessel SONNE. The first section of the 116 meter long ship was launched in the dock. The ship will be handed over in January 2
Clariant, a world leader in Specialty Chemicals, has announced that it signed an agreement with Ecolab Inc. to acquire certain of its deep water Gulf of Mexico assets. The divestment of the assets by Ecolab was a prerequisite by the U.S. Department of Justice for the approval of the acquisition of C
Bahamas Petroleum Company, the oil and gas exploration company with licences in The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, announces its final results for the year ended 31 December 2012. Highlights: • Post period end, mandate to undertake exploration drilling has been granted to establish commercial viabilit
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured its third identical offshore crane contract for Volstad Maritime AS series of 125m offshore construction vessels being built by Bergen Group Fosen shipyard in Norway. The order is booked in the first quarter 2013 order intake. Two more active heave-compensate
INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX) announces that through its wholly-owned subsidiary INPEX Offshore Timor-Leste, Ltd., it has signed a new Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for the JPDA 11-106 contract area (Contract Area) of the Joint Petroleum Development Area (JPDA), which is jointly administered by the
The Secretariat of the International Seabed Authority has received a proposal from Nautilus Minerals Inc., (‘Nautilus’) a company incorporated in Canada, to enter into negotiations to form a joint venture with the Enterprise for the purpose of developing eight of the reserved area blocks in the Clar
CGG announces the appointment of David Dragone as Executive Vice President, Human Resources (HR). David takes over from Pascal Rosset who is assigned to other duties within the Group. Reporting to General Management, David becomes a permanent member of CGG’s Executive Committee and Management Commit
Sevan Marine announces that “first oil” and production from FPSO Voyageur Spirit at the Huntington oil and gas field in the Central North Sea has successfully started. Following a 72 hours continuous production testing, title to the FPSO Voyageur is expected to be transferred to Voyageur LLC (a subs
1. Technip Nets Largest Subsea Contract for Moho Nord Off Congo Technip was awarded by Total E&P Congo a major lump-sum contract for the engineering, procurement, supply, construction, installation (EPSCI) and pre-commissioning for the Moho Nord development project. This project is located approxima
Statens vegvesen is seeking for a contractor to conduct underwater inspection services in Norway. The work consists of diving inspection on a total of 53 quays in the county and 49 selected bridges. The report shall be prepared for each quay and bridge with a proposal to repair any damage. The start
Following an extensive refit, HMS Portland has become the final Royal Navy Type 23 frigate to be fitted with Thales UK’s Sonar 2087, a towed array sonar system that enables warships to hunt submarines at considerable distances and locate them beyond the range from which they can launch an attack. Po
50Hertz Offshore GmbH has invited tenders for the provision of underwater ordnance identification services offshore Germany. The project includes extensive tracking to identify anomalies in the ferromagnetic area of the planned subsea cable routes from landfall in Lubmin the priority area for wind e
