CodaOctopus reports on yet another Echoscope® success with a major construction company in Spain. UTE Langosteira is a consortium of companies involved in one of the largest port expansion projects currently being undertaken. The project, situated on the North West coast of Spain, consists of formin
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has placed an order with Samsung for the construction of a power cable laying vessel. The vessel with an overall length of 100 meters and with a cable loading capacity of 5,000 ton is expected to be completed in the second half of 2012. Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V.
Aberdeen-based specialist subsea service company DOF Subsea UK has secured a contract with Hess to provide diver-less Decommissioning servic… (subseauk) [mappress] Source: subseauk,May 24, 2011;
IHC Engineering Business (IHC EB), a part of IHC Merwede group, has recently been awarded a contract for the supply of a 35 tonne Launch and Recovery System (LARS) to Canyon Offshore Ltd (Canyon). The bespoke A-Frame system will be used to launch and recover a new build trenching ROV. IHC EB enginee
Emerson Process Management has released Roxar RMS 2011, the latest version of its reservoir modelling software. RMS 2011 can cope with more geological complexities in its model building than any other package on the market today. “As operators are faced with deeper and more challenging geological se
Cecon ASA, the Norwegian based independent offshore subsea contractor, has announced firm commitment for its new office in Leiden, The Netherlands, including the creation of 15-25 new jobs and a further significant investment over the next 12 – 24 months. It is intended that Cecon”s Dutch branch wil
Statoil will acquire a 40% equity interest in a North Makassar Strait Production Sharing Contract (PSC) and a similar interest in two additional offshore PSCs (West Papua IV and Halmahera-Kofiau). The three production sharing contracts (PSC) will be operated by Niko Resources Ltd. Given exploration
Swiber Holdings Limited , a world class integrated construction and support services provider to the offshore industry, announced that it has secured contract wins worth approximately US$109 million from oil majors for projects in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. These contract wins come i
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 agreed a contract with BG International Limited (Egypt Branch – ‘BG Egypt’), a division of BG Group plc, to supply its POS-GRIP High
The PGS GeoStreamer GS (TM) introduces a new era of ghost-free, broadband seismic data. Seismic data without the source- and receiver sea surface reflections (ghosts) produce subsurface seismic images of unprecedented quality and represent removal of some of the most significant noise components tha
CGGVeritas has initiated acquisition on the first 3D multi-client program that uses BroadSeisTM, its superior broadband marine solution. Located in the Central North Sea, Quad 29 Phase 1 covers 2,100 km² and is being acquired by the CGGVeritas Oceanic Challenger operating with a 10 x 75 x 6000 m lon
TGS commences the acquisition of multi-client 3D seismic data in the Hoop Fault Complex area of the Barents Sea. This survey is an extension of the previously announced Hoop Fault Complex survey and will add 1,800 km2 to the existing data in the area. Approximately 500 km2 of the survey are infill i
Bahamas Petroleum, the oil and gas exploration company with offshore licence permits in The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, announces that it has signed a contract with Fugro N.V. (“Fugro”) to undertake a high resolution seabed survey on the Company’s licence area. The survey will begin in early June;
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego Professor of Geochemistry Miriam Kastner, a pioneer in the study of the chemistry of marine sediments, received the Francis Shepard Medal from the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM). Kastner’s research has taken her around the world to study sub-
