The Navy’s energy future was the focus of a two-day NAVFAC Conference and Industry Day held March 26-28 at the Koa Malina Officers Club, Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH), Kaneohe Bay. The Navy, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, will select three ocean energy power developers to occup
InterAct PMTI, an Acteon company, has broadened its environmental capabilities and services with the recent appointments of Ms. Cynda Maxon and Mr. F. Charles (Skip) Newton, who join the company as Sr. Project Director and Senior Scientist, respectively. This is part of a strategic move to augment s
Tocardo International, the leading producer of hydro-power turbines, has signed an exclusive dealership agreement to sell its renewable energy technology into South Korea. Tocardo signed the deal with the German-Korean corporation Korwind. The company has extensive experience with the South Korean r
An international research team is reporting the results of a research cruise they organized to study the amount, spread, and impacts of radiation released into the ocean from the tsunami-crippled reactors in Fukushima, Japan. The group of 17 researchers and technicians from eight institutions spent
GL Noble Denton has won the coveted Utilities category of the 2012 Pipeline Industries Guild Awards. The award honours an innovative Beam Drilling System, which is used by UK gas network operators to secure drilling equipment onto gas pipelines more safely and efficiently. The Beam Drilling System i
Royal Navy and Army bomb disposal experts have successfully removed the remnants of a V2 rocket which was submerged off the English coast. A 4-feet-long section of the German World War 2 weapon was pulled from mudflats at low tide on the River Stour between Harwich and Felixstowe. The six-man Navy t
Centrica Renewables Energy Ltd has contracted Global Marine Energy Ltd., the largest independent provider of subsea power cable installation, maintenance and related engineering services worldwide, to provide the cable landing works related to the west export nearshore cable at the Lincs Offshore wi
The Norwegian Government approved the development plan for the Martin Linge gas field. Until now the licensees have referred to the field as Hild. Located in the northern part of the North Sea, the field is about 150 kilometres west of Kollsnes. Total investments in the development amount to about N
Polarcus Limited announces that the Company has received a Letter of Intent from an undisclosed client for two 3D seismic acquisition projects offshore Norway. The program will commence in mid-May and is expected to run for approximately 105 days. About Polarcus Polarcus is a pure play marine geophy
Spectrum, in partnership with the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (NAMCOR), has commenced a new project in the Luderitz basin following the successful completion of an extended 2D Multi-Client seismic survey covering the deep water Orange Basin, offshore Namibia. The Orange Basin program a
Huisman, the specialist in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions, has secured a new contract from Allseas for the design and manufacturing of an 850mt Offshore Mast Crane. The crane will replace the current 300mt Offshore Mast Crane onboard Allseas’ pipelaying vessel “Solitaire”. The delivery is sc
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that the Gaupe field, located in the Southern North Sea, offshore Norway, commenced production on 31 March 2012. The Gaupe field is located in PL292 and is adjacent to the Norway – United Kingdom (UK) border, some 225 km from the Norwegian mainland. T
The Norwegian subsea entrepreneur Ocean Installer and A/S Norske Shell signed 30.03.12 a Letter of Intent to award an important contract. The contract covers EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation) services in the context of A/S Norske Shell’s further development of the Draugen f
After intensive research and the consolidation of the markets SubCtech has succeeded in the breakthrough that they always were waiting for. With company’s know-how in deepwater engineering and ship-measuring systems, they could combine the two business divisions. SubCtech proudly announced a success
