Huawei Marine has been contracted by Transworld Associates (TWA), a Pakistani Tier 1 internet provider, to upgrade its submarine cable system, TW1. Commissioned in 2006, the 1,300 km TW1 submarine cable system connects Pakistan, United Arab Emirates and Oman. The 100G upgrade will combine submarine
The Saudi Telecommunication Company (STC) announced the landing of the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 5 (Sea-Me-We 5) submarine cable in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. Tethered from Singapore to France, 19 international operators invested in the cable, which connects Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia
Mermaid Subsea Services in Qatar, part of Mermaid Maritime, has secured an additional subsea cable installation and related diving services contract from Saipem. The contract has an estimated value of USD 10 million and is scheduled for completion within three months. According to the email received
Subsea Innovation has completed the design and manufacture of two 16” mechanical pipeline connectors for use by oil & gas operator RasGas. These are the first systems that Subsea Innovation have produced for RasGas, the company said. RasGas required the connectors to meet specific weld specification
UTEC Survey, an Acteon company, has appointed Zamil Group as its partner agent in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The appointment allows UTEC Survey to support projects undertaken by its clients actively involved with Aramco ‘LTA’ contracting agreements. UTEC Survey Regional Manager, Sean Fowler, said:
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), OMV, and Occidental Petroleum have signed a contract over several undeveloped oil and gas fields in North-West Offshore Abu Dhabi including the Ghasha and Hail areas. An agreement was reached for conducting a four-year seismic, drilling and engineering wor
UTEC Survey, an Acteon company, has added a new member to head up its new branch office in Abu Dhabi. Noel Cowley, working for UTEC group since 2007 in various operational and senior management positions, will head up the Abu Dhabi office as general manager. “Having participated the company’s phenom
Oman’s Ministry of Heritage & Culture (MHC) in cooperation with Blue Water Recoveries (BWR) of UK announced the discovery and archaeological excavation of a Portuguese East Indiaman that was part of Vasco da Gama’s 1502-1503 Armada to India. The ship, which sank in a storm in May 1503 off the coast
The three seafloor production tools (SPTs) for the deep seabed Solwara 1 project have arrived at Duqm Port in Oman, Nautilus Minerals informed on Friday. The three SPTs are scheduled to undergo wet testing at Duqm Port. The testing is one of the next major steps in the progession towards seafloor pr
Horizon Geosciences has added Cathodic Protection (CP) surveys to its list of survey services. CP surveys are used to assess and control the integrity of metal subsea assets as environmental and time related factors can cause corrosion of important offshore and near shore infrastructure and componen
Boskalis has been awarded a contract from the National Petroleum Construction Company of Abu Dhabi, UAE for dredging work related to the installation of an offshore gas pipeline of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company as well as to an existing offshore gas pipeline. The activities are due to start in
TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity company, and the consortium behind the Asia-Africa-Europe-1 (AAE-1) cable system, announced the deployment of a large-scale wavelength equipage to the system. The equipage will utilize TE SubCom’s 100 Gbps optical transmission equipment. AAE-1 is a 25,000 km system owned
McDermott has been awarded a contract by an undisclosed oil and gas operator for a project offshore in the Middle East. The scope includes engineering, procurement, fabrication, transportation and installation of offshore pipelines. Engineering and offshore mobilization of McDermott’s in-house vesse
Dana Gas has started the sales gas production from the Zora Gas Field, located in the Sharjah Western Offshore Concession. Subsequently sales production was delayed due to urgent maintenance work on gas supply infrastructure at the customer’s receiving facilities. The Zora Gas Field is located appro
