Reederei NSB reports yesterday that MSC FLAMINIA and the accompanying group of tugboats have assumed a waiting position approximately 100 nautical miles off the British coast. While the team of firefighting experts is onboard MSC FLAMINIA, the vessel is not towed. Yesterday, a team of firefighting e
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) will take a 20 percent shareholding in Chatham Rock Phosphate and assume a seat on the board, in a world-first for the undersea mining industry. It is the first time a major dredging company has taken a substantial equity position in an undersea mining proj
NOAA-supported scientists have found the size of this year’s Gulf of Mexico oxygen-free ‘dead zone’ to be the fourth smallest since… [mappress] Source: NOAA, July 30, 2012
Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil) on Friday started the drilling of exploration well 16/2-12 targeting the Geitungen structure. The well is located in licence PL265, between the Johan Sverdrup discovery and the 16/2-9S Aldous Major North discovery in the Norwegian North Sea. The main objective of the w
The U.S. Navy, on Friday (July 27th 2012), awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries a $1.5 billion fixed-price incentive contract for the detail design and construction of the amphibious transport dock LPD 27. The ship will be built at the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division. “This contract validat
Technip was awarded by Ithaca Energy (UK) Ltd an EPIC subsea contract for the Greater Stella Area (GSA) development, located 280 kilometers East-Southeast of Aberdeen, Scotland at a water depth of approximately 90 meters. Ithaca Energy (UK) Ltd is developing the GSA, centred on the Stella and Harrie
Neptune Marine Services Limited provides an update on expected results for the second half of FY2012, prior to lodging its preliminary final report in August for the period ending 30 June 2012. Based on unaudited management accounts, Neptune expects to record a positive EBITDA result for the second
France’s Technip was awarded by Ithaca Energy (UK) Ltd an EPIC subsea contract for the Greater Stella Area (GSA) development, located 280 kilometers East-Southeast of Aberdeen, Scotland at a water depth of approximately 90 meters. Ithaca Energy (UK) Ltd is developing the GSA, centred on the Stella a
Exxon Mobil reported a profit of $15,910 million for the second quarter of this year a 49% rise compared to the the second quarter of 2011. SECOND QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS Earnings of $15,910 million increased $5,230 million or 49% from the second quarter of 2011. Earnings included a net gain of $7.5 bill
Statoil Petroleum AS has received consent to conduct exploration drilling of well 6607/12-3 with the West Alpha mobile facility. Well 6607/12-3 is part of production licence 385 in the Norwegian Sea. Water depth at the site is 363 metres. The well is located approx. 16 kilometres northwest of the No
Perle Systems, a global provider of advanced serial to Ethernet and secure device networking solutions, disclosed that PanGeo Subsea selected Perle IOLAN STS4T Device Servers for integration into their Sub-Bottom Imager ™ (SBI). The SBI is a large roving device that is submerged and sent to undersea
During a recent oceanographic expedition off San Diego, graduate student researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego discovered convincing evidence of a deep-sea site where methane is likely seeping out of the seafloor, the first such finding off San Diego County. Such “meth
RFA Lyme Bay, the fifth ship to have a multi-million pound refit as part of the Cluster contract at A&P Falmouth, has arrived in the port for work to begin. She returned to Falmouth after three years in the Gulf supporting coalition operations. The major refits, carried out every five years, have be
MISC confirms that another body was recovered in the waters early Saturday morning. The identity of the body has yet to be confirmed. As for the two bodies recovered on Friday they are confirmed to be Ordinary Seaman Mohd Hanafi Bin Kalil and Senior Pumpman Zahari Bin Hassim, both Malaysians. [mappr
