The Board of Directors of SapuraCrest Petroleum Berhad announces that its wholly-owned subsidiaries, TL Offshore PLSV1 Ltd and TL Offshore PLSV2 Ltd , has each entered into a contract with IHC Offshore and Marine B.V, for the construction of two units of 550 tonne pipelay support vessels, at a fixed
Posidonia Oceanica is a seagrass species endemic in the Mediterranean, where it plays an important role in the ecosystem. Its presence indicates low water pollution levels. Its acoustic properties allow it to be distinguished from backscatter response of the seabed and make it possible to map it wit
Caley Ocean Systems has supplied two, large capacity, 2,500 tonne turntables to Global Marine Systems Ltd (GMSL) to handle deployment of non-coilable cables from their vessel CS Sovereign. Caley has worked closely with GMSL, and their naval architects, to design the two turntables such that they can
Shetland Islands Council has announced a tender procedure for underwater cable laying works. The Council intends to place an underwater fiber optic telecommunications cable in Clift Sound from the Trondra Bridge to Maywick. The works consist of laying a cable from an existing manhole adjacent to the
Matrix has received its first purchase order worth $1.8 million through its new office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The order is from one of the world’s leading deep-water drilling contractors. Matrix will supply the new riser buoyancy to replace damaged modules on a drillship that will be used off th
To address the most pressing challenges facing ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources, the federal government released a National Ocean Policy action plan. The draft requests comments on actions the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other federal agencies on the National Ocean Council will tak
Bjørn Jalving has been appointed as Executive Vice President of Kongsberg Maritime’s Subsea division and a member of the Kongsberg Maritime management group, effective 1st January 2012. Jalving will succeed Rolf Arne, who is moving to a role working with strategic projects in Kongsberg Maritime. Jal
Chevron Canada Limited, Statoil Canada Ltd. and Repsol E&P Canada Ltd. have concluded agreements to conduct exploration activities offshore Atlantic Canada. Chevron and Statoil have also finalized another agreement for exploration activities in the Canadian Beaufort Sea. These new joint ventures ove
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, announces that it has received £260,000 funding from Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited (‘Maersk Oil UK’), a leading independent oil and gas
A global subsea engineering firm is working on a major North Sea contract worth in excess of £2million. Rotech Subsea, which is headquartered in Aberdeen and owned by Norwegian firm Reef Subsea, is involved in a subsea excavation project with marine construction firm Red7Marine on what will be the U
Technip was awarded two contracts by the international energy company Statoil, worth a total of around €55 million, for the Vilje South field and Visund North developments located in the North Sea at water depths of 120 and 385 meters respectively. These contracts cover: * welding and installation o
The government is to invest over £10 million in new research and development to help demonstrate that wave and tidal energy can be generated at scale, and with lower energy production costs. Marine Energy – Supporting Array Technologies is a competition for collaborative R&D funding that will suppor
Nova Scotia Power may have a tidal turbine back in the water this year but it’s more likely to be early 2013, says the CEO of parent company… (thechronicleherald) [mappress] Source: thechronicleherald , January 12, 2012; Image: OpenHydro
Ezra Holdings Limited, a leading global offshore contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas (O&G) industry, today announces two further contract wins worth a total of up to US$120 million for the Group. The offshore support services division, EMAS Marine, has been aw
