Due to serious weather damage at the Maersk UK Gryphon field, Bibby Offshore were contracted to deliver diving support and in particular, help make the site safe while Maersk assessed the damage and then put in place plans for the field re-construction. Initially the Bibby Topaz was mobilised to sur
Leading international service company Expro has received a commendation from a major customer for maintaining an extremely high level of safety for the past year. Chevron has thanked Expro for an exemplary incident-free workplace for the past 12 months, covering work across its global operations. Ex
On July 8, 2011 WindMW GmbH and Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW) signed a contract for the delivery and installation of 108 km medium-voltage submarine cables for the inter-array cabling of the wind farm project Meerwind. With the installation scheduled to start in the second half of 2012, comp
CGGVeritas provides its vessel utilization and its fleet allocation updates for the second quarter of 2011. Vessel utilization for the second quarter 2011: *The vessel availability rate1 was 92%. This compares to a 81% availability rate in the first quarter of 2011 and a 92% rate in the second quart
MBARI’s research vessel Western Flyer and the remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts are on an eight-week expedition to the waters off the coasts of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. A multidisciplinary group of MBARI scientists and collaborators will explore and conduct research experiments
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, has been commissioned by Wintershall Noordzee B.V. , a leading international oil and gas company, to design and develop a mudline crossov
Transworld Associates Ltd. , Pakistan’s first private submarine fiber optic cable operator, and TE SubCom a TE Connectivity company formerly known as Tyco Telecom and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, announced plans to upgrade the TW1 undersea cable system. TW1, which was c
STORNES, a flexible fall pipe vessel built by Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as “CIMC Raffles”) for the Dutch company Van Oord Marine Services BV was successfully delivered in Yantai, China. STORNES is the world’s fifth flexible fall pipe vessel. It features high tech
Dave Foster appeared at a glance to be playing a video game as he sported red 3-D glasses and used a hand-held control to navigate the floor… (southcoasttoday) [mappress] Source: southcasttoday.com, July 12, 2011;
Companies linked to close relatives of a controversial former senior bureaucrat have cornered the lion’s share of licences in India’s first… (articles.economictimes.indiatimes) [mappress] Source: articles.economictimes.indiatimes. July 12, 2011;
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced today that its subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., in Huntsville, Ala., received approval from the U.S. Navy to move into Full Rate Production Phase on the Littoral Battlespace Sensing-Glider Program. This is the first ocean glider FRP decision
Scientists from British Antarctic Survey have discovered previously unknown volcanoes in the ocean waters around the remote South Sandwich Islands. Using ship-borne sea-floor mapping technology during research cruises onboard the RRS James Clark Ross, the scientists found 12 volcanoes beneath the se
Statnett’s partners in the cable project NorGer, Agder Energi, Lyse and EGL have conveyed that they would like to sell their shares of the project to Statnett. Statnett bought into NorGer in June last year. The agreement included the opportunity for the partners to sell their remaining shares in the
University of Luebeck from Germany, triumphed over 9 other teams to win the SAUC-E ’11, the 6th Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge Europe. The team’s AUV called “Hanse” got the highest score successfully completing a number of mission tasks assigned. The 2nd prize went to University of Girona (
