In response to a request from Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, the U.S. Geological Survey released the ‘science gap and sufficiency’ report evaluating science needed to better inform decisions regarding oil and natural gas exploration and development in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas off Alaska
The “Belgica”, the Belgian navy ship converted into a research vessel, has now come to the Maritime Museum Ría de Bilbao and will remain docked at the quays of the Museum until Saturday, when they leave with the tide. Aboard the ship, and within the framework of cooperation between the Ministry of E
Hallin Marine, a Superior Energy Services company, announces the award of its latest subsea pipeline repair project off the African west coast. Working on behalf of a major oil company, Hallin is providing overall project management and engineering, the subsea operations vessel (SOV) Ullswater, repa
Since 1989, offshore installations in the English sector of the North Sea have been required by law to install Emergency Shutdown (ESD) valves to isolate the installations from oil and gas pipelines. A Bettis™ valve actuator − specially designed by Emerson Process Management − installed at that time
Aberdeen-based Hallin Marine, a Superior Energy Services company, in cooperation with UTEC has successfully provided offshore pipelay and platform installation support to Global Industries at the Al-Jalila Field, offshore Dubai. With overseas divisions in Australia, Canada, Singapore, Brazil, and th
As part of the company’s ongoing strategic growth plan Spectrum has announced considerable strengthening of the Executive Management Team with the appointment of a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the creation of a Chief Operating Officer (COO) position. Henning Olset has been appointed as the
NURC’s mine reacquisition and neutralization efforts focus on Autonomous Surface Vehicle carrying and guiding an automated ROV (aROV) close to the mine target utilizing advances in sonar image processing and target tracking, autonomous navigation and control, and collaborative autonomous systems mis
Aberdeen-based Ecosse Subsea Systems is delighted to announce that it has scored a hat-trick of finalist’s positions in two awards schemes. The company is a finalist in the Wood Group Award for Innovation category of the annual Grampian Awards for Business Enterprise. The winner of the accolade will
Cyta, the premier telecommunications provider in Cyprus, and Telecom Italia Sparkle, the international services arm of the Telecom Italia Group, announce their agreement following a top management meeting in Rome, for the new ATHENA submarine cable subsystem linking Cyprus to Greece, which will come
A small group of Aptos High School students is considered the best in the world when it comes to engineering a robot that can stop a deepwat… (santacruzsentinel) [mappress] Source: santacruzsentinel, June 23 , 2011;
The National Subsea Research Institute (NSRI) is unveiling the future focus for ground-breaking research in the exploitation of oil and gas… (Subsea UK) [mappress] Source: Subsea UK, June 23 , 2011;
The first foundation of the offshore wind farm Thornton Bank 2 has been successfully installed off the coast of Belgium. The around 50 metre high and 550 ton steel foundation (a so-called jacket foundation) was manufactured in Hoboken near Antwerp, and in the past few days it was transported via pon
On June 2, 2011, Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW) has been awarded a major order by TenneT TSO GmbH (TenneT), a German-based transmission network operator, for the supply and installation of 2 x 13 kilometers of 155 kV AC submarine transmission cables. The cable will provide the network connect
MMT will present marine technology at Universeum, Scandinavia´s largest science center on Monday the 4th of July to Friday 8th of July! Universeum is one of the organizers of “The West Coast Maritime Week”. This event is an initiative from the Governance of Region Västra Götaland to increase the awa
