Samsung Engineering has appointed Michel Laine as chief operating officer of its newly established offshore segment, effective December 20, 2012. Laine’s career in offshore began in 1982 with ETPM, followed by Technip and Bouygues Offshore S.A. (acquired by Saipem). Since 2002, he held key managemen
Babcock is to manufacture and deliver over 70 subsea structures as part of the major Quad 204 offshore redevelopment project, some 130km west of Shetland, UK, under a £30m+ contract awarded by BP. The complex and highly technical Quad 204 project consists of a new Floating Production System Offshore
The delays in building electricity transfer links cause the risk for Scotland’s planned offshore tidal, wave and wind power plants, the renewable energy developers announce. According to the founder and director of Pelamis Wave Power, Richard Yemm, wave and tidal energy projects are reliant on the n
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) publishes report on offshore electricity transmission – a new model for infrastructure. “Not only is it unlikely that this new licensing system for bringing electricity from offshore wind farms onto the national grid will deliver any savings for consumers, it could we
Ezra Holdings Limited (Ezra or the Group) a leading contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas (O&G) industry, ushered in its new fiscal year with a 54% surge in revenue to US$278.7 million and a 44% jump in gross profit to US$49.9 million for the three months ended
A Kongsberg TOPAS PS 40 – Parametric sub bottom profiler has recently been installed on MMT’s survey vessel Triad. The acceptance tests of the new system were successfully performed in early December outside Nynäshamn in the Stockholm archipelago. The Topas 40 will add the benefit of high spatial re
Unique Maritime Group, one of the world’s leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution providers, announces its participation at Underwater Intervention 2013, being held at the Morial Convention Centre in New Orleans, LA from the 15th until the 17th of January 2013. Underwater Interventio
Aker Solutions has secured an important five year frame agreement for the execution of contracts across Talisman Sinopec Energy UK Ltd’s brownfield projects on the UK continental shelf. Although the contract contains no firm spending commitment, the anticipated multi-million pound agreement cements
Ezra Holdings Limited (Ezra, the Group), a leading global offshore contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas (O&G) industry, announced that its subsea services, offshore support services and energy services divisions (EMAS AMC, EMAS Marine and EMAS Energy respective
Canadian tidal turbine developer Clean Current Power Systems continues with its effort to develop tidal energy projects in Nova Scotia, after the recent announcement that the company and its partner Alstom terminated their licensing agreement to install a 1MW tidal test turbine near Parrsboro in the
MMT, a powerful platform for experience and dedication in acoustic, hydrographic, geotechnical and ROV surveys for marine infrastructure projects worldwide, announced the participation at Ocean Business in Southampton from 9-11 April 2013. MMT will showcase its cost effective survey solutions and th
Subject to the Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Federation Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology and Ministry of the Environment of the Republic of Finland, the Finnish authorities received the report on environmental monitoring for 2012 along the Nord Stream route in Russian wate
The Rogue Reef will stay on the list of the wave energy harnessing sites, regardless of its disapproval, writes Curry Pilot. The list in question serves as the basis for updating Territorial Seas Plan, which will help organize springing up of additional energy facilities along the Oregon coast. Last
FoundOcean has been awarded a major offshore wind farm grouting contract in European waters by Offshore Wind Force, a joint venture of Dutch-based contractors Volker Stevin Offshore and Boskalis Offshore. The West of Duddon Sands Offshore Wind Farm is being constructed by DONG Energy and ScottishPow
