On 24th March SMIT Salvage successfully completed its assignment on the removal of fuel from the Costa Concordia. Over the last couple of days, the SMIT Salvage diving team was transferring HFO from the last settling tank in the engine room. Early this morning, the last tanks were completed, closed
Yesterday at noon, local time (10 p.m. ET), James Cameron’s “vertical torpedo” sub broke the surface of the western Pacific, carrying the National Geographic explorer and filmmaker back from the Mariana Trench’s Challenger Deep—Earth’s deepest, and perhaps most alien, realm. The first human to reach
Black Sea Fleet (BSF) 17-th Diving School based in Sevastopol trains divers for the whole Russian Navy. Having passed theoretical course, cadets started practical dives. Servicemen directed by experienced instructors are practicing submersion at coast-based training range and at sea from a special v
Sandip Ukani, operations director of Pulse Structural Monitoring (an Acteon company), will give a presentation on the monitoring of mooring lines at MCE Deepwater Development 2012 in Paris, France, on 26 March. The presentation will describe Pulse’s experience of designing and installing MoorASSURE,
VERIPOS has been awarded a new three-year contract by Kuala Lumpur based Orogenic Geoexpro for the continued provision of services to the Malaysian company’s fleet of vessels engaged on geophysical surveys, rig moves and major construction support projects throughout South East Asia. Services provid
Technip’s UK entity has been awarded a contract by BP and partners to develop the subsea infrastructure for the Quad 204 project, located West of Shetland. This is Technip’s largest contract to date in the UK North Sea, worth approximately €600 million (around £500 million). The Quad 204 project, ap
China Oilfield Services Limited announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2011. Despite faced with challenges arising from domestic and global markets in 2011, the Group adopted a market oriented approach to optimize allocation of resources and strategies for marketing of its servi
Unique Maritime Group, one of the world’s leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution providers, announces its participation in Russia Offshore being held in Moscow from March 26th to March 29th 2012 . Harry Gandhi, CEO of Unique Maritime Group, commented on UMG’s participation in the ev
Monitoring the environment at sea in a region where waves are usually some five metres high is obviously challenging. That is what Vattenfall plans to do off the coast of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, the site of the company’s first wave-energy farm. The location for the wave energy farm was cho
Scientists from a leading university in Scotland are heading up a pan-European project to create the most advanced, autonomous, cognitive robot which could help to dramatically reduce the cost of underwater monitoring operations and maintenance within the oil and gas industry. The team from the Ocea
Nexans, a worldwide expert in the cable industry, at Oceanology 2012 showcased its wide range of cable solutions developed to meet the specific needs of workclass ROV manufacturers and operators. Visitors to stand D250 could find out how Nexans is building on many years of experience in the subsea m
Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission Limited (SHETL), the licensed transmission owner in the north of Scotland, is planning to develop a 109 km subsea electricity cable between Caithness and Moray to transmit the large volume of existing and planned electricity from renewable sources in the north of
Statens vegvesen Region South which intends, on behalf of Vest-Agder County, to build a subsea tunnel between the mainland and the island of Hidra in Flekkefjord Municipality, has announced the tender for the tunnel engineering services. In this connection, the County Governor of Vest-Agder has requ
TenneT Offshore GmbH has announced the tender for subsea cable surveying services for the Alpha Ventus BorWin project. The BorWin Alpha in the North Sea is known as the biggest and most remote offshore wind farm cluster project in the world. For the first time in wind power history, the generated po
