Kongsberg Maritime has delivered a cutting-edge AUV package featuring an advanced HUGIN 1000 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and sophisticated multibeam echo sounder to DOF Subsea. The Bergen, Norway headquartered subsea services provider has already deployed the 3000 metre depth rated HUGIN AUV
Mediterranean Oil & Gas Plc has announced that the Government of Malta has granted a one year extension of the first exploration phase of the Production Sharing Contract (“PSC”) for Malta Offshore Area 4 (“Area 4”) to January 2014. The Area 4 PSC licence is currently owned 100% by MOG through its wh
SeaBird Exploration Plc announced that Aquila Explorer has received a letter of award from a company in the Asia Pacific region. The contract has an estimated duration of 75 days with a value of approximately USD 8 million, with an optional extension of about 45 days with a value of USD 5 million. S
Jumbo has been awarded a FPSO mooring, installation and hook-up contract by EnQuest. EnQuest is redeveloping the Ardmore and Duncan fields as Alma and Galia respectively. The project scope is the mooring spread installation and FPSO tow out and hook up. This will be the first offshore project in whi
The Ob River liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier chartered by Gazprom Group successfully completed yesterday the world’s first LNG supply via the Northern Sea Route (NSR). The carrier left the Port of Hammerfest (Norway) on November, 7 and arrived at the regasification terminal in the Port of Tobata
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District will be holding a series of public meetings to present the proposed final array of alternatives for the Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) and give all interested individuals, groups and agencies an opportunity to comment and as
Premier Oil has announced that the Cyclone well in UK block 21/7 has reached a total depth of 6,076 feet and is being plugged and abandoned. The well, drilled by the WilPhoenix semi-submersible rig, encountered 105 feet of Palaeocene Cromarty sands but the well logs identified only residual oil. Thi
Chevron Corporation has announced a $36.7 billion capital and exploratory investment program for 2013. Included in the 2013 program are $3.3 billion of planned expenditures by affiliates, which do not require cash outlays by Chevron. “Our exploration program continues to discover additional gas reso
Three senior practitioners from Geosyntec Consultants are set to present at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis in San Francisco December 9-12, 2012. Principal Environmental Scientist Ruth Custance from Geosyntec’s Santa Barbara office will present “Calculating Inhalation Exposu
Jumbo has been awarded a FPSO mooring, installation and hook-up contract by EnQuest. EnQuest is redeveloping the Ardmore and Duncan fields as Alma and Galia respectively. The project scope is the mooring spread installation and FPSO tow out and hook up. This will be the first offshore project in whi
Technip has been awarded by BG International Ltd (BG) a lump sum engineering, procurement, commissioning and installation (EPCI) contract for the development of the Starfish field. Located in the East Coast Marine Area, offshore Trinidad, the field lies at a water depth of approximately 130 meters a
The Army Corps of Engineers’ dredge Currituck, based out of Wilmington, N.C., is scheduled to begin dredging the Rudee Inlet Federal Navigation Project for five days beginning Dec. 7, 2012. The dredging is being done as a result of significant shoaling across the entire entrance channel. Weather con
Technip was awarded by BG International Ltd (BG) a lump sum engineering, procurement, commissioning and installation (EPCI) contract for the development of the Starfish field. Located in the East Coast Marine Area, offshore Trinidad, the field lies at a water depth of approximately 130 meters and wi
Reference is made to the stock exchange notice dated 13 November 2012 regarding completion of a one-year contract in Brazil and commencement of a new 3D EM data acquisition project in Brazil. EMGS has signed a contract extension worth approximately USD 12 million with Petrobras. As previously announ
