Care2, an online community, launches a petition to restrict an environmental damage from experimental deep-sea mining. The campaign has attracted international support. Community has collected more than 10,000 signatures and the number of participants is still increasing. Mining companies granted nu
Wild Well Control, a Superior Energy Services company, announces that James Tuppen has joined the company as Manager, International Well Control Operations. Tuppen has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry involving snubbing services, pressure control and well control operations. “
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy today, 20 January, gave the green light to the plan for development and operation (PDO) of Skuld, a fast-track development tied in to the Norne field in the Norwegian Sea. Skuld is Statoil’s fifth approved fast-track PDO, and the largest fast-track development so
DNV has developed a new pipeline concept, called X-Stream, that can significantly reduce the cost of a deep- and ultra-deepwater gas pipeline while still complying with the strictest safety and integrity regime. X-Stream is based on established and field-proven technologies which have been innovativ
The North Sea Foundation is organizing the symposium Sound Solutions in Amsterdam, which will focus on the impact of piling and possible solutions for sound reduction. They are looking for possibilities to reduce underwater sound to prevent negative impact on marine life and to prevent delay in futu
ST Marine won a contract from Saipem (Portugal) Comercio Maritimo (Saipem) to upgrade the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system and accommodation piping system for pipe-laying vessel, Castoro 8. It will undertake the design development, engineering and supply of a new chilled wate
The well completion and output enhancement unit of China Oilfield Services Limited （“COSL”） has recently successfully completed a fracturing operation at Sinopec’s 14-2-1 well in Ningbo. This is the first fracturing operation COSL performed for Sinopec. The professionals at the well completion and o
Wave Hub Limited has awarded a contract for the marine operational management and electrical engineering services in order to ensure a safe and efficient facility, Wave Hub. Red Penguin Associates Limited was chosen for this contract on January 11, 2012, thus it is most likely that the company will
ASSC-1 Communications Group Pty Ltd (ASSC-1), a private Australian submarine cable developer, today announced the development of a new Perth to Singapore submarine cable system. ASSC-1 will deliver a four-fibre pair cable system which will span a distance of 4,600 kilometres with an initial design c
Bluestream Offshore has kicked off 2012 early in the season with the award of an air diving project in Block L in the Southern North Sea part of the Dutch Continental Shelf. Bluestream will be using the high spec DPII DSV Seabed Worker for its diving operations. After a careful selection process, Bl
CSA International, Inc. has initiated a program to develop a remediation methodology that can be successfully utilized with marine sediments that have been subjected to excessive loading with organic compounds, particularly in deepwater environments where biodegradation processes are slowed due to l
Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, mysterious honeycomb material was found floating in the Gulf of Mexico and along coastal beaches. Using state-of-the-art chemical forensics and a bit of old-fashioned detective work, a research team led by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Instituti
CNOOC Limited announced on Thursday that it has resumed a limited production at its Zhuhai gas terminal after repairing a leak in subsea pipe. According to Reuters CNOOC is delivering 2 million cubic meters per day of natural gas from the project, a bit less than 50 percent of its capability. The co
A 150-tonne tidal power vessel is being installed on the Humber to generate electricity for a Hull aquarium… (BBC) [mappress] Source: BBC , January 20, 2012; Image: NREL
