Swathe Services and HYPACK have teamed up to deliver a 5 day practical Multi-Beam Echo-Sounder (MBES) training course from 15th – 19th April 2013, designed to give surveyors hands on experience on installation, calibration, data acquisition and post processing. Additional elements of the course will
Alam Maritim Resources Berhad (“AMRB” or “the Company”) announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Alam Maritim (M) Sdn Bhd, has accepted the award from PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd, Peninsular Malaysia Operations (“the Client”) for the provision of two units offshore support vessels (OSVs) to support
Coast Guard Marine Safety Detachment Kodiak personnel are working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in response to the sinking of the FWS research vessel Arluk in St. Herman’s Harbor, Kodiak, on Friday. Lazy Bay LLC personnel, under contract by the FWS, plugged openings in the sunken vessel an
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® method of wellhead engineering, announces that Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited (‘Maersk Oil UK’) has agreed to exercise two, one year extension options attached to an original contrac
FMC Technologies, Inc. reported fourth quarter 2012 revenue of $1.8 billion, up 23 percent from the prior-year quarter. Diluted earnings per share were $0.50 compared to $0.41 in the prior-year quarter. This included a charge related to the 2012 Multi Phase Meters earn-out adjustment of $17.5 millio
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that it has secured contracts with a subsidiary of Transocean Ltd. to provide three subsea blowout preventer (BOP) control systems. These contracts add over $40 million to Oceaneering’s Subsea Products backlog. The contracts are for discrete hydraulic system
Spectrum announces the signing of Share Purchase Agreements to acquire the Norwegian companies Carmot Seismic AS and Carmot Processing AS. The acquisition establishes a significant footprint for Spectrum on the Norwegian Continental Shelf adding 3D seismic data cubes covering approximately 125,000 s
Visiongain’s analysis indicates that the global market for remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) in the oil & gas industry will reach a value of $2.46bn in 2013. The sector will experience strong growth over the forecast period as increasing expenditure in the deepwater and subsea construction markets c
Chevron’s Big Foot and Jack/St. Malo development projects in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico are major components in Chevron’s long-term growth plan. Big Foot will be Chevron’s sixth operated facility in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and located approximately 225 miles (360 km) south of New Orleans, Lou
In the framework of the Marinet program, IMDC, in a partnership with HR Wallingford, University of Ghent and the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, finalised end of December 2012 the physical model tests at the University of Aalborg (DK). The test program was set-up to investigate an
International certification and classification society, the RINA Group, has been awarded a contract with the Danish company Femern A/S for the verification of the railway interoperability and safety requirements of the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link. That is an underwater tunnel that will link Germany and D
The Research Vessel Kaiyo has been deployed on a research cruise by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology since January 18, 2013. The long-term borehole observatory, which was installed by the Deep Sea Drilling Vessel Chikyu beneath the seafloor of the Kumano Basin off the Kii Pen
Statoil and its partners have chosen a development concept for the Skrugard field in the Barents Sea. The concept includes a floating production unit with a pipeline to shore and a terminal for oil from the Skrugard field at Veidnes outside Honningsvåg in Finnmark. The field is scheduled to come on
The REMUS 600 AUV was designed through funding from the Office of Naval Research to support the US Navy’s growing need for operations requiring extended endurance, increased payload capacity, and greater operating depth. The REMUS 600 AUV boasts the same proven software and electronic subsystems fou
