CARIS was recently in Hong Kong conducting a CARIS HIPS and SIPS training course with the Hong Kong Marine Department. The Marine Department is responsible for all navigational matters in Hong Kong and the safety standards of all classes and types of vessels. The primary focus of the training course
Oceanteam Shipping ASA announced that it has taken up one of its options and ordered a new, OTS design, 2000t modular carousel system, which will be delivered in April 2013. The new patented OTS carousel series are designed for flexibility and quick mobilisation on standard modern PSV/CSV type vesse
CARIS recently spent four weeks at the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) conducting training and consultancy on CARIS Hydrographic Production Database (HPD). ACP selected HPD for marine spatial data management and security, and to obtain further efficiencies in chart production. During the training cours
BusinessPort will be exhibiting their world class agility Business Management System at this years Subsea UK Exhibition and Conference. With a number of subsea clients, such as Subsea 7, Reef Subsea and Integrated Subsea Services, BusinessPort want to continue to highlight the benefits of adopting a
This animation depicts a standard undersea fiber optic cable installation, deployed from one of TE SubCom’s cable ships and buried with the submersible plows and ROVs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsoo_BOwrrM [mappress] Subsea World News Staff, January 28, 2013
Borders & Southern, a London based independent oil and gas exploration company, provides an update on its assets in the South Falkland Basin. Since the completion of its 2012 drilling campaign the Company has undertaken a number of technical and commercial studies. Whilst a number of these studies a
The Norwegian Sea may be able to store 5.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, according to the NPD’s new storage atlas. This is more than 100 times Norway’s total CO2 discharge last year. The mapping is a follow-up on the atlas from 2011 for the Norwegian part of the North Sea, which was estimated to be
Finalists for this year’s Offshore Achievement Awards have been named today, in an announcement which celebrates the highest performing companies and individuals within the energy industry. The 2013 awards, which were launched in October by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section,
The State of Oregon has adopted a new Territorial Sea Plan (Part 5) that includes policies and maps governing how and under what conditions ocean renewable energy will be allowed to develop in state waters. On Thursday, January 24th, after a full day of comments and discussion, the Land Conservation
GE Oil & Gas and the Angolan group GLS Holding S.A. announced the formation of a new joint venture, GE-GLS Oil & Gas Angola Limited, to better support Angola’s rapidly growing oil and gas sector. As part of the agreement, which received the approval of Angola’s National Agency for Private Investment
A major new research project – led by the University of Dundee – has been launched with the aim of helping make offshore wave energy a sustainable proposition. Sustainable offshore wave energy has the potential to make a real contribution towards the binding European Union commitment to source 20% o
Halliburton announced that income from continuing operations for the fourth quarter of 2012 was $589 million, or $0.63 per diluted share. This compares to reported income from continuing operations for the third quarter of 2012 of $608 million, or $0.65 per diluted share. Adjusted income from contin
CGG announced that the main agreements needed to close the acquisition of Fugro’s Geoscience Division have been signed. The effective date of the closing will be January 31st, 2013, with the exception of the airborne activity and certain minor assets which will be contributed later, once all operati
The National Oceanography Centre has welcomed the news that its owning body, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) will receive £10 million over the next two years for research and development of Marine Robotics. The UK has a strong track record in developing autonomous underwater vehicles
