A pioneer for the development of marine turbines is the winner of this year’s Saltire Prize Medal Award. Professor Peter Fraenkel, MBE, who has been involved in the marine energy industry for more than thirty years, was presented with the award by Finance Secretary John Swinney at the Scottish Renew
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has signed a contract with BP for the manufacture and supply of subsea equipment to support the Mad Dog Phase 2 field development. The Mad Dog Phase 2 field development is located near Green Canyon Block 825 of the Gulf of Mexico, 150 miles (240 kilometers) s
The latest stage in the construction of Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm, off the North Wales coast, has got underway with the start of inter-array cable installation. The subsea cables will connect all 160 turbines to the two offshore substations already installed more than eight miles off North Wale
Sediments of the deepest trench on Earth, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, shows surprisingly high microbial activity. An international research team led by Professor Ronnie Glud from the University of Southern Denmark involving Dr. Frank Wenzhöfer from the HGF-MPG Joint Research Group on Deep
Britain’s Royal Meteorological Society has awarded Tim Barnett, an emeritus research marine geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, its Symons Gold Medal, the society’s premier award. It is the first time in the history of the award that a Scripps scientist has received th
NOAA released a draft damage assessment and restoration plan addressing environmental injuries from the 2005 Tank Barge DBL 152 oil spill in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The draft plan describes the steps NOAA has taken to see if natural resources, such as marine habitats, were injured by t
Adria Winch, together with its partner Seaonics AS, was awarded a contract to supply marine equipment for two STX OSV’s Offshore Subsea Construction Vessels with a total value of €406.800 (US$ 526.60). The vessels are currently being built in STX OSV Brattvaag Shipyard for Siem Offshore, a Norwegian
Statoil has completed appraisal well 16/5-3 together with partners Petoro and Det norske oljeselskap. The well confirms that the Johan Sverdrup field extends into production license 502 and proves a small additional upside to the field’s resources. Well 16/5-3 was drilled in PL502 – the neighboring
Seatronics, an Acteon company, and its Norwegian partner, RTS, have secured a contract to supply six Gen 5 multiplexer systems to Bibby Remote Intervention Ltd. (BRIL). The Gen 5 is the most versatile survey multiplexer system available on the market offering unprecedented communication links and 85
Six months before the inaugural Oceanology International China 2013, the only event for marine science and ocean technology in the Asian region, opens at INTEX in Shanghai (3-5 September 2013), registration is now open at oichina website. Attendance at the exhibition is free of charge to all with a
Fastnet, the listed E&P company focused on near term exploration acreage in the Celtic Sea and Morocco, announces that it has executed a seismic contract with CGG to acquire, using the SR/V Vantage, 1,710 sq. km. of 3D seismic in the Celtic Sea beginning in mid-April 2013. The total value of the pro
TGS has commenced acquisition of a 2D multi-client survey offshore Sierra Leone. The survey, SL13, will add 9,191 km of new 2D data to infill the existing 5,784 km of 2D data acquired in 2001. Upon completion of the SL13 survey, TGS will have approximately 15,000 km of contiguous 2D multi-client dat
Several projects have been awarded to Jan De Nul Group: a reclamation project in Indonesia, a capital dredging project in Russia and an offshore project in Australia. In Indonesia an offshore island will be reclaimed. These works are a part of a large scale reclamation development north of Jakarta,
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) said Thursday it had completed its required evaluation to ensure that the public receives fair market value for tracts leased as part of Western Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale 229. After extensive economic analysis, BOEM awarded leases on all
