CGGVeritas announced that it will begin acquiring a fourth repeat survey (LoFS04) on the Ekofisk field in the North Sea as part of the multi-year Life-of-Field Seismic (LoFS) program for which it was awarded both the seismic data acquisition and processing. Mobilization is starting early June 2012,
Primeline and CNOOC Ltd. have received formal approval of the environmental impact assessment report (“EIA”) relating to the development of the LS36-1 gas field from the State Oceanic Administration (“SOA”). The SOA had previously approved the routing of pipeline for the Development. The Safety Asse
The RESON Group is offering existing SEABAT 7125 SV2 customers the opportunity to upgrade their systems with RESONs Feature Pack 3, (FP3) totally, free of charge. Feature Pack 3 has taken all the benefits of FP2 and added two new features, TRACKER and SEABAT UI, to provide users with increased effic
The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Board of Directors has approved the establishment of the Offshore Technology Conference Asia. The initial event will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 10-12 March 2014 and as a biennial event going forward, will be located in prominent cities throughout the
On 30 May 2012, IHC Merwede signed an agreement to acquire Wave Rotor technology from Ecofys, which is renowned for its expertise in sustainable energy solutions. The official signing was made by Willem Steenge, Managing Director of IHC Tidal Energy, and Manon Janssen, Managing Director of Ecofys. W
SeaPro Nav, Sercel’s integrated navigation system for all in-water seismic equipment, has been selected by SeaBird Exploration as the master system for two vessels in its marine seismic fleet, the Harrier Explorer and the Aquila Explorer. SeaBird Exploration is the fourth industry player to choose S
Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, inaugurates its new submarine cable plant in Finland, having invested approximately €40 million to increase its production capacity at the Pikkala facility, already one of the Group’s centres of excellence for high voltag
In recognition of customers’ expressed need for a course to assist new and developing users of High accuracy GNSS positioning, Veripos have launched a new course introducing the fundamentals of global maritime positioning. Starting in July the INTRODUCTION TO HIGH ACCURACY POSITIONING USING GNSS (Co
The ROV/Survey vessel SHARK 1, which is fully equipped for safe and efficient offshore operations in the Black Sea, is nearing completion in Constanta Shipyard, Romania and will be launched in August 2012. In addition to the capabilities needed for surveys, the vessel can also offer ROV support for
EGS Americas Inc and EGS Metocean Sound Sciences announce that they have further enhanced the international subsea survey and metocean capabilities with the recent addition of Mr. Ninad Gupte. Mr. Gupte has joined the US based EGS companies as Technical Manager; he brings 20 years of combined Indian
TTS Group ASA announced it has finalized its sale of the drilling equipment business to Cameron in an all cash transaction. CEO & President of TTS Group, Johannes D. Neteland said: ” This divestment is an active step by TTS to participate in the on-going further developments of the drilling equipmen
The world’s largest LNG producing company, Qatargas, has awarded pipeline engineering company STATS Group a multi-million pound 10 year contract to provide remote pipeline isolation equipment. STATS will design, manufacture, test and supply a new range of high integrity Remote Tecno Plugs™ for 32”,
Leading international well flow management company Expro has secured a subsea services contract in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) with global energy company Chevron U.S.A. Inc. The scope of work involves providing two 15ksi rated auxiliary strings complete with direct hydraulic umbilicals and reelers for
Paradigm™ announced yesterday that after a competitive evaluation, Cairn Energy PLC has chosen the Paradigm interpretation toolkit as its next generation 2D and 3D seismic interpretation solution. Cairn will use the new system to interpret new 3D surveys acquired last year in offshore Greenland. The
