Huisman, specialist in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions, has announced its plans to build a new production facility in Brazil and recently initiated the land fill works. The new facility will be located alongside the river Itajai-Açu in the city of Navegantes in Santa Catarina state, a state i
According to the Scottish Government, Moray First Marine Ltd, a marine company, has announced a tender for the supply of remotely-operated vehicle for survey services. The deadline for submission of tenders is 20 September 2012. Moray First Marine is a company that utilizing its various experiences,
Rigas Brivostas parvalde has announced a tender for a multi-purpose vessel. The estimated period of the project is ten months from the date of the contract award. Included in the tender are the design, construction and supply of a new multi-purpose hydrographic research survey vessel. The deadline o
Offshore operations demand work in harsh environments and challenging conditions; whether the work is done via bottom-founded barges or deepwater mobile offshore drilling units (MODU), the same essential monitoring equipment is required. With MODU, where water depths are up to 10,000 feet, floor-bot
Canada’s efforts to demonstrate world leadership in tidal energy research and technology are taking a significant step forward, as Ocean Networks Canada’s Centre of Enterprise and Engagement (ONCCEE) partners with researchers and industry to design and install the world’s first cabled underwater mon
As the manager of the shipping department at China Oilfield Services Ltd, Cai Dian, stated, the company plans to make its ocean engineering fleet larger by adding 50 vessels. ChinaDaily reports that COSL is now ready to venture into offshore oil development since China’s first deep-water drilling ri
Maritime New Zealand announces that the good progress was made on Rena this week, despite salvage operations being suspended for two days due to high winds and swells. The project remains on schedule. The total combined weight of steel removed is now approximately 430 tonnes, which is more than 20 p
MMT has recently completed a geophysical cable route survey for the Amrumbank West offshore wind farm (OWF) project for Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH. The geophysical survey was performed by MMT for the entire inner array grid cable route. The geophysical survey included bathymetric and side-scan s
Ithaca Energy Inc. announces an Athena field operational and production update. The planned hydraulic intervention to eliminate the production tubing blockage in the P1 well, using a Remotely Operated Vehicle Support Vessel, has been performed. This intervention, involving the pumping of fluids into
Matt Lang has joined Hydroid, Inc., a Pocasset-based manufacturer of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), as a senior proposal associate. Prior to joining Hydroid, Lang was a proposal coordinator for CG Power Solutions in Albany, New York. In his new role, Lang will be responsible for proposal dev
On September 6, 2012, Petrobras began oil production in the ultra-deep waters of the Chinook oil field from the floating production, storage and offloading platform, FPSO BW Pioneer, moored some 250 kilometers off the coast of the State of Louisiana in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. It is the first FPSO t
Carlos Morales-Gil, Director-general Exploration & Production of the Mexican oil company Pemex will participate in the Offshore Energy Conference 2012 in Amsterdam. He will present the latest developments in upstream oil and gas in Mexico and Pemex’s strategy for the future. The Offshore Energy Conf
The public is invited to help identify objects they see in images of the seafloor through a new interactive website called “Seafloor Explorer.” The result of a unique collaboration between oceanographers studying seafloor habitats, Web programmers and social scientists, Seafloor Explorer launches to
Oil & Gas UK and Decom North Sea, co-organisers of the Offshore Decommissioning Conference, have confirmed that this year’s keynote speaker will be Gerry Borghesi, UK/Netherlands Production Manager for ExxonMobil International. Only a few places now remain for the two-day event ,sponsored by Ernst &
