Chelsea Technologies Group is addressing the challenges of effective monitoring of rivers, estuaries and coastal regions against outflow events from waste water treatment works and farm slurry. These challenges have been driven by the EU Bathing Waters Directive, which will introduce new tighter reg
Navingo BV, a maritime and offshore media group based in Rotterdam, has launched a new worldwide job portal specialized in the offshore wind industry. Offshore wind contractors, suppliers and job seekers are now able to find each other at OffshoreWIND.Jobs. OffshoreWIND.Jobs offers companies related
EnerMech has been awarded its first major pipeline commissioning contract in the Australian oil and gas sector. The mechanical engineering company will provide engineering support, personnel and pre-commissioning equipment and services on the 90km Chevron Gorgon DomGas pipeline currently under const
Statoil and its partners in the Svalin field have today, 15 June, submitted their plan for development and operation (PDO) to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. The Svalin field lies about six kilometres south-west of the Grane platform at a water depth of 125 metres. The Svalin field development
Kleven Maritime has signed a contract with Olympic Shipping on the delivery of a subsea support and construction vessel of MT 6022 MK II design. The vessel is to be built on Kleven Maritime’s shipyard Kleven Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway. The total contract value is around 600 million NOK. The contrac
Stroud based green energy company, Ecotricity, is planning to generate power from sea waves. Founder Dale Vince said to Utility Week that the company is on track to deploy the Searaser prototype by autumn. Searaser pumps seawater using a vertical piston between two buoys – one on the surface of the
Leighton Holdings Limited is providing this update to the market about the status of the jetty and marine structures contract, comprising a 2.1 km jetty, a heavy lift facility, tug pens and navigation aids, which is being executed for the Chevron-operated Gorgon Project in Western Australia. The pro
Flensburg shipbuilders have chalked up another remarkable success. Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) has signed a contract with globally operating seismic company WesternGeco, a frontrunner in its sector, for the construction of two offshore ships. The delivery of the 127metre long vessels is
At its meeting on 13 June 2012, the Board of Directors of Oslo Børs resolved to admit the shares in Veripos Inc. to listing on Oslo Børs, or alternatively to listing on Oslo Axess. The Board agreed to exempt the company from the requirement that a listed company must have been in existence for at [&
The continuous use of the oceans, in particular the sound generated from seismic sources, has the potential to cause disturbance to marine mammals such as whales, dolphins, porpoises and seals. A series of guidelines have been produced by the UK based Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) in or
Subsea 7, a global leader in sea bed-to-surface engineering, construction and services to the offshore energy industry, has added the specially adapted new build Jack-up accommodation and crane barge, the Seven Inagha, to its fleet. The Seven Inagha is effectively a vessel with legs and, unlike most
Fugro-TSM Asia Pacific, has been awarded a five year Life of Field support contract in Malaysia from Murphy Oil Ltd., with a value in excess of USD 140 million. The work on the project started in May 2012. Fugro-TSM will be responsible for the project management, engineering of a variety of work-sco
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company (“TGS”) announces the acquisition of Calgary-based Arcis Seismic Solutions Corp. The total equity value is approximately US $51 million, reflecting an enterprise value of US $72 million, based on net debt at the date of acquisition. Arcis is a privately owned geophysica
China’s manned deep-sea submersible Jiaolong, with three divers inside, has set a new record by diving over 6,000 meters below the sea in the Mariana Trench on Friday, ChinaDaily reports. This was the first of a series of planned six dives. The dive began at 9 am (local time) on Friday. The 6,055 me
