Liquid Robotics®, an ocean data services provider and developer of the Wave Glider®, the first wave-powered, autonomous marine robot, launched the PacX Wave Gliders from the Big Island of Hawai’i on the final phase of a first-of-its-kind scientific expedition across the Pacific Ocean. Continuing the
Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have conducted a new study to measure levels of carbon at various depths in the Arctic Ocean. The study, recently published in the journal Biogeosciences, provides data that will help researchers better understand the Arctic Ocean’s car
Jumbo’s engineers and the crew of HLV Jumbo Jubilee have successfully transported and discharged fourteen of the twenty-five MOF caissons for the Chevron-operated Gorgon Project on Barrow Island, Australia. So far the operation was performed as planned with respect to every detail: safety, environme
TGS has commenced acquisition of a 3D multi-client survey covering 4,000 km2 in the Northern North Sea near the southern Møre Basin. This survey, EOTW12, builds on the previously announced Erlend Basin multi-client 3D survey and ties with TGS’ existing multi-client 3D database in the Northern North
EvoLogics GmbH, a leading manufacturer of underwater information and communication systems from Berlin, Germany, presented the White Line Science Edition – a new line of S2CR underwater acoustic modems with an embedded network protocol development platform. Intended for universities and other resear
VideoRay and its partners announced that they have shipped the first implementation of VideoRay CoPilot by SeeByte software, on a platform consisting of the VideoRay Pro 4 underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), BlueView P900 series imaging Sonar, and Teledyne RDI Explorer Doppler Velocity Log (
Dolphin announces SHarp, a combined acquisition and processing broadband seismic product. The increased bandwidth and AVO friendly nature of the process allow the possibility of better use of amplitudes for direct hydrocarbon detection. The technique does not require special recording equipment so a
Leading international oilfield services company Expro is celebrating the successful commissioning of its ground-breaking AX-S™ well intervention system. The AX-S system, on board the Havila Phoenix vessel, completed its final commissioning successfully on a subsea well in a fjord (Onarheimsfjorden),
As part of the 2012 American Energy and Jobs Tour, Congressman Steve Scalise will lead a Congressional Delegation on the 2012 Offshore Energy Tour in New Orleans and on a deepwater rig in the Gulf of Mexico’s Outer Continental Shelf on May 24 and 25. Participating in the 2012 Offshore Energy Tour wi
Unique System FZE, a Unique Maritime Group Company which is one of the worlds’s leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution provider announced a new project with DCN. It has been awarded the contract to supply the Hydra 09 saturation diving system. Hydra 09 is an ABS Classed 9 Man Satura
ShawCor Ltd. announced that its pipecoating division, Bredero Shaw, has received a contract from Apache in Australia with a value in excess of US$45 million to provide pipeline coatings and related products and services for the Julimar Development Project. The Apache-operated Julimar Development Pro
In Russia, Saipem signed a lump sum EPCI contract with LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhskneft (a wholly-owned LUKOIL subsidiary), for two export pipelines connecting the riser block in the Vladimir Filanovsky offshore field, in the Northern Caspian Sea, to the onshore shut-off valves, located approximately 10 to
HR Wallingford has developed a remote controlled boat that can be used to accurately measure river and estuarine data including flow, depth and suspended sediment concentrations. It uses a technology called Acoustic Doppler Current Profiling which sends acoustic pulses in to the water to generate da
The seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services contractor to the offshore energy industry Subsea 7 has ordered the OCTOPUS suite of products for the recently delivered Pipelay/Heavy Lift vessel Seven Borealis. This latest addition to the Subsea 7 fleet is a state-of-the-art vessel that
