Two floating cranes raised the 140-foot sunken fishing vessel Deep Sea to the surface of Penn Cove on Sunday June 3. The lift capped an intensive multi-agency response to protect the area’s shellfish and other resources against damage from thousands of gallons of oil on the Deep Sea when it sank at
Potential investors on $1.5 billion undersea cable connecting the BRICS group to each other and the U.S. are about to decide whether they’ll proceed with funding of the project, reports Reuters. According to Andrew Mthembu, chairman of i3 Africa which is promoting the project, the cable which would
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) hosted a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Peter Voser, Chief Executive Officer of Royal Dutch Shell within the 25th World Gas Conference. The parties discussed bilateral cooperation in the energy sector. Alexey Miller and
Marks & Spencer and Aquamarine Power have both won the 2012 European Business Awards for the Environment (EBAE). They were victorious over 156 other entrants from across the 24 European Member States. M&S won the Management Award which goes to companies with outstanding strategic vision and manageme
Schlumberger announces the launch of IsoMetrix marine isometric seismic technology and the IsoMetrix family of marine seismic products. This breakthrough technology outputs isometrically sampled point-receiver data in both crossline and inline directions—capturing the returning wavefield in three di
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that Mark E. Peterson has joined Oceaneering as Vice President, Corporate Development. Mr. Peterson’s career spans 35 years in the energy industry, since 2005 with McDermott International, Inc. where he was most recently responsible for McDermott’s corporate
Eidesvik has entered into a contract with Kleven Maritime for building of a large subsea vessel with delivery Q2 2014. The contract has a value of above 1 billion NOK and is the largest single investment in the company’s history. The vessel has a length of 145 m and a beam of 31 m. It […]
Sercel announced the expansion of its marine seismic equipment offering with the launch of the Sentinel® RD, the latest generation of its Sentinel solid streamer. With over 4,000 km of streamers delivered to more than 60 seismic vessels worldwide since its introduction in 2005, Sentinel has become t
Cameron has signed an agreement with CNOOC for the supply of subsea production systems in support of the “Panyu 35-1/2” deepwater gas field developments in the South China Sea. The contract is valued at approximately $100 million and the scope of supply includes six subsea production trees, producti
CNOOC Limited announced that the Company received a report from ConocoPhillips China Inc., the Operator of Penglai 19-3 oilfield, stating that a small amount of oil leaked to the sea when the safety device of a hose coupling automatically parted due to the abnormality during the oil transfer under f
MPM has been awarded the contract for subsea wetgas meters for the Åsgard Subsea Compression by Aker Solutions. The meters will be installed upstream each compressor train, as part of Aker Solution’s retrievable cooler module. The Åsgard field lies in 250 – 300 m water depth in the Norwegian Sea, ab
ION Geophysical Corporation today announced the launch of Calypso, its next generation redeployable seabed acquisition system. Leveraging ION’s industry-leading VectorSeis digital sensors to deliver the same unrivaled broadband imaging, Calypso is designed to operate at twice the depth and to delive
Dolphin Group ASA announces the appointment of Tim Wells as Chairman of the Board for Dolphin Group ASA. Tim has more than 35 years’ experience from the seismic industry. He began his career with Digicon Geophysical in Houston as a Processing Geophysicist and was rapidly promoted to manage their Sou
The cooperation between Cuxport and Offshore Marine Management GmbH (OMM) is gathering pace: the “Bourbon Enterprise”, the first vessel equipped for the maritime cable business at a quay at Cuxport, left Cuxhaven for the last time bound for the North Sea. On its seven trips, the 76-metre long multi-
