Marathon Oil Norway AS (Marathon) has been granted consent to conduct manned underwater operations on Volund and Alvheim fields, both located in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. Marathon will conduct manned underwater operations in connection with installation of equipment for connection of new
Oil & Gas UK has issued a call for papers to be presented at its major offshore safety conference next summer, which will mark the 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster. Piper 25 will be a three-day event held at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre from 18 to 20 June 2013. Starting with
Geodis Wilson will manage the transport of 16 lock gates, each weighing more than 4,000 tons, for the the expansion of the Panama Canal. An initial vessel, carrying four of the gates will depart from Italy in February 2013 and will be followed by a further three shipments throughout the year. The pr
A busy conference season in Houston will see Sonardyne Inc. participating at the Association of Petroleum Surveying and Geomatics (APSG) Fall meeting, 11th October, and the Marine Technology Society’s (MTS) Dynamic Positioning (DP) Conference, 9th-10th October. Sonardyne will be presenting technical
Srei Infrastructure‟s subsidiary, Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure Limited, has sold its investment in the derrick lay barge „Quippo Prakash‟ to SapuraKencana of Malaysia. Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure, which is primarily in the business of owning and operating onshore drilling rigs, also held
Srei Infrastructure‟s subsidiary, Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure Limited, has sold its investment in the derrick lay barge „Quippo Prakash‟ to SapuraKencana of Malaysia. Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure, which is primarily in the business of owning and operating onshore drilling rigs, also held
PJSC Stroytransgaz has won the tender for the engineering, procurement, construction, and start-up of the Arctic terminal of the year-round oil export from the Novoportovskoe field developed by Gazprom Neft. Stroytransgaz has won as the leader of the consortium made of major companies that specializ
Studio Legale Lauro announces that the Shipping and the Law conference, will once again be held in Naples, Italy on Monday 08 October 2012. This unique event brings together leading figures in Italian shipowning, finance and maritime law community with their international industry counterparts to de
Equipped with a 2000MT crane, the barge is designed to provide offshore construction support and has underwater pipe-lay capability.
Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt Cuxhaven has introduced plans for the underwater clearance works at the Cuxhaven area. In preparation for the planned channel adjustments in the Lower and Outer Elbe construction site, these clearance works are required. To this end, several underwater obstacles are needed
A leading international energy services company, Wood Group comprised of three businesses—Engineering, Wood Group PSN and Wood Group GTS, has issued the Interim Management Statement. According to Wood Group conditions in energy markets remain favourable. The Group continues to deliver good growth an
Lamprell, a leading provider of diversified engineering and contracting services to the onshore and offshore oil & gas and renewable energy industries, announces that Nigel McCue is standing down as Chief Executive and as a director of the Company. Peter Whitbread, former Chief Executive who was wit
DW forecast that between 2013 and 2017 $91bn will be spent on floating production systems (FPS) – an increase of 100% over the preceding five-year period. In Douglas-Westwood’s new World Floating Production Market Forecast 2013-2017, a total of 121 floating production units are forecast – a 37% incr
Susquehanna State Park’s Lapidum Boat Launching facility will be temporarily closed on or around October 9, with a projected reopening date of December 1, 2012, in order to remove excessive sediment from the launch area caused by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. “This work is necessary in ord
