On 10 July, at 06.00 hours, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) started acquiring seismic data in the Nordland IV and V areas. The work is planned to last for one month. The Storting (Norwegian Parliament) has tasked the NPD with mapping the seabed to gain knowledge regarding potential petrole
Leading international oilfield services company Expro has been awarded a $3.4 million, two-year contract working on the Who Dat project, in the Gulf of Mexico, for LLOG Exploration. Expro will provide subsea test trees for the project on the Mississippi Canyon (Block 547). Expro and LLOG have had a
Norwegian Mapping Authority Hydrographic Service (NHS) has announced that they are seeking for a company to execute hydrographic services. The project includes seabed surveying services in the Barents Sea, under the direction of the MOREANO programme. The total value of the tender is estimated betwe
Ifremer announced a tender for ROV engineering services in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. The tender encompasses the study, engineering and testing of the new HROV winch assembly. These would afterwards be installed on Ifremer’s vessels. The project should last about 9 months from the date of the cont
Jersey Electricity announces that the energy bills will rise in the future because of the malfunction of its two underwater cables. At the end of April there was an electrical fault which needs to be replaced on a section of the Channel Islands grid between Guernsey and Jersey. According to BBC News
As reported by ABC News, Inpex, an energy giant, in preparation for a dredging project in Darwin Harbour, will survey the harbour floor. Starting this week the survey will commence. Divers, survey boats as well as barges will begin the project in the channel area. Inpex needs the survey data to get
According to The Trinidad Express, The Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) is trying to find a solution to its submarine cable failure between Trinidad and Tobago. T&TEC’s General Manager Kelvin Ramsook stated that a public tender was approved for the number two submarine cable. This
Visitors to Lake Huron this summer may have a unique opportunity to glimpse science in action. During July and September… [mappress] Source: NOAA, July 10, 2012; Image: NOAA
Technip was awarded by Apache Energy Ltd a subsea installation contract worth approximately $60 million (about €50 million) for the Balnaves oil field development, located in the Carnarvon Basin, offshore North Western Australia, at a water depth of approximately 135 meters. The contract includes th
Matrix Composites & Engineering announced that it has been awarded new contracts totaling USD$48.2 million for the supply of drilling riser buoyancy, centralisers and distributed buoyancy for use in subsea development and onshore environments. Drilling Products The contracts to manufacture and suppl
MARINET (Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network) is a European Commission (FP7 programme) funded initiative which aims at accelerating the development of marine renewable energy technology by bringing together a network of 42 marine research facilities in countries all over Europe, including Ifrem
Research from the University of Southampton and National Oceanography, Southampton has provided new insight into the basic immune response and repair mechanisms of corals to disease and changing environmental conditions. Research from the University of Southampton and National Oceanography, Southamp
NOC scientist, Dr Henry Ruhl, is leading an expedition to the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, some 300 miles southwest of Lands End. He will be looking at how the shape of deep ocean floor and climate influence deep sea ecology, and he intends to do this by making a very large photographic map of the seafl
PTTEP announces today (July 9,2012 )that the second wellhead platform of Vietnam 16-1 project has been successfully installed, and this is expected to increase its capacity to about 55,000 bpd by the fourth quarter this year. Mr. Tevin Vongvanich, the President and CEO of PTT Exploration and Product
