The Libyan International Telecom Company (LITC) announced the activation of the new enhanced submarine cable system connecting Libya and Italy. System uses the newest technologies to provide large capacities reaching 40Gbps instead of the old system (2.5 Gbps). The activation of this system will hel
China will soon put its very first deepwater exploration vessel into use in the South China Sea, according to China Petroleum Daily. The statement did not indicate in which part of the South China Sea the vessel will be working. ‘Ocean Oil 708’ can work in 3,000 meters water depths and its drilling
On or about November 7, 2011, a hydrocarbon release occurred in the vicinity of a development well being drilled by Chevron Corporation off the coast of Rio de Janeiro in the Frade field with a semisubmersible drilling rig, the SEDCO 706, owned by a subsidiary of Transocean Ltd. The incident involve
A 100ft underwater turbine destined to form part of a major tidal energy project has been installed in the sea around Orkney. (pressassociation) [mappress] Source: pressassociation , December 26, 2011
SNEPCo confirmed the oil leak from the Bonga facility off the coast of Nigeria has largely dispersed. The news comes five days after less than 40,000 barrels of oil leaked during a routine operation to transfer of oil from Bonga’s floating production, storage and offtake (FPSO) vessel to an oil tank
Repsol Chairman, Antonio Brufau, Eni Chairman, Paolo Scaroni, and the Venezuelan Minister of Popular Power for Oil and Mining Rafael Ramírez in Caracas signed the natural gas supply agreement that will allow the development of the vast hydrocarbons reserves of the Perla field. The Perla super-giant
Telekomunikasi Indonesia (PT Telkom), with the help of NSN has upgraded the service provider’s 354 kilometer under-sea link in Indonesia… (voicendata) [mappress] Source: voicendata , December 25, 2011
Tidal energy could be used to power homes in Jersey, Guernsey and Sark in the next 20 years. BBC [mappress] Source: BBC , December 25, 2011
CNOOC stopped the production at the PY30-1 and HZ21-1 platforms after finding the leak at the Zhuhai terminal in southern China. Outages at two gas platforms may last for weeks following a leak in a subsea pipeline earlier this week, media official from CNOOC stated. An official said: “It shouldn’t
Thiess has won a $60 million contract to deliver infrastructure for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. Thiess will construct a 1.2 kilometre long tunnelled shore crossing under the ocean which will connect two offshore gas reserves with Chevron’s greenfield LNG plant at As
At the request of Innogy Nordsee 1 GmbH, Gardline Geosciences Limited performed a marine soil investigation for the proposed offshore wind farm Innogy Nordsee 1 which is located off the German coastline and 40 km to the north of the island of Juist. The projected area of the proposed site was 145.6k
National Grid announces that the 2,000-megawatt subsea power cable between the British and French energy markets will run at half of its capacity between March 1 and roughly June 30, 2012 for valve replacing work. 2012 outage schedule demonstrates that the interconnector’s capability will also be re
Sumitomo Corporation and J-Power Systems Corporation have won a joint contract to install submarine power cables between the main island of Taiwan and the Penghu Islands, located about 60 km west off the southwestern coast of the main island. This is a full turnkey project worth about 32 billion yen
Moorings Systems has completed the installation of a flexible export flowline to transfer water to a DP tanker at the BP Valhall platform complex in the Norwegian North Sea. The project involved installation of 1,160 metres, 6” flexible flowline, front end engineering, mobilisation of equipment, and
