Alstom has completed the acquisition of Tidal Generation Limited (TGL) from Rolls-Royce plc. In September 2012, Alstom announced that it had agreed to acquire TGL, which specialises in the design and manufacturing of tidal stream turbines, subject to the achievement of critical milestones including
Snowflake Software, specialist in data exchange solutions via Open Standards, has been awarded a contract by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) to provide an open standard Geography Markup Language (GML) encoding and profile for a basic route specification S-100 based maritime data specif
Despite the slow start of New Jersey offshore wind project, the developers are moving forward with the plan to transmit the electricity generated by giant turbines, Philly.com news site reports. The Atlantic Wind Connection developers rely on political support for the installation of subsea cables l
Tugs FAIRMOUNT SUMMIT and FAIRMOUNT ALPINE have delivered the new build Noble Tamar jacket at location in the Tamar gas field in the Eastern Mediterranean. Both tugs towed the barge on which the jacket was loaded from the US to the field South-East of Cyprus. The 18,500 ton jacket was build in the U
John Mingé has been appointed Chairman and President of BP America, Inc. and will serve as BP’s chief representative in the United States. He will succeed Lamar McKay, who has been appointed to head BP’s Upstream business. “John Mingé has done a superb job in Alaska, where he has led the way in enha
BP announced that the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has accepted the company’s plea resolving all federal criminal charges against the company stemming from the Deepwater Horizon accident, oil spill, and response. The company offered its plea to the Court and was sentenced
The ACE Winch Academy has appointed David Moxey as Training Academy Manager to further develop and expand the division. David joins ACE Winches, the deck machinery specialists, from Northern Marine Manning Services to target the training needs of clients and share ACE Winches’ competencies in winch
The cutting edge Seven Viking vessel, designed for operations in the harshest environments is being unveiled and named at a ceremony in Stavanger, Norway, by Subsea 7, Eidesvik Offshore and Ulstein today, 30 January 2013. The next generation Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) vessel, the Seven
Aker Solutions has been awarded the second call-off project under the Sleipner Modification Portfolio Agreement, involving the tie-in of gas production from Dagny. Contract value is NOK 650 million and the work will commence immediately. The contract involves modification work on Sleipner A. In more
One of the focus areas in Statoil’s technology strategy is to develop methods to improve reservoir monitoring and thus improve recovery. The objective is to acquire even more extensive data to ensure more accurate drilling of both new and operated fields. By acquiring new seismic data after a period
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated and the shareholders of RESON A/S (“RESON”) jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of RESON by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Teledyne. RESON, headquartered in Slangerup, Denmark, provides high-resolution marine
GE Oil & Gas and Sharewell Energy Services, a Houston-based supplier of directional drilling solutions for the oil and gas industry, have signed an agreement that gives GE exclusive worldwide rights to sell Sharewell’s proprietary electromagnetic telemetry (EM) technology. The agreement was announce
Dana Petroleum has been given the go-ahead by the Egyptian government to further develop the Nefertiti oil field in the Gulf of Suez following the successful completion of an appraisal well. The Aberdeen-based oil and gas company, in partnership with INPEX, successfully drilled the exploration well
RS Aqua announced the signing of a collaborative agreement with Nova Scotia based Iridium hardware and service provider JouBeh Technologies (JouBeh), giving their clients access to their extensive data telemetry and equipment monitoring capabilities. The venture, which grants the Company product and
