NOAA, with staff from the State Department, U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, Department of the Interior and private citizens representing… [mappress] Source: NOAA , July 04, 2012; Image: NOAA
Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) is creating 150 new jobs in Aberdeen as it outlines plans to introduce a dedicated project delivery arm to its business. The move is designed to enhance the company’s ability to secure and deliver large-scale North Sea projects. The oil and gas project market worldwide is valu
On 21 June 2012, the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah team in Ghana reached a significant milestone by achieving two years of operations with zero Lost Time Incidents (LTIs). Members of the combined team, which includes the Integrated Project Team, commissioning team, contractors and ongoing Tullow and MODEC oper
The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) announced that the company signed a Murabaha financing agreement with Public Investment Fund (PIF), on Tuesday 3rd July 2012 to finance part of the total construction cost of building two General Cargo vessels at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Ko
Turner Designs C3 Fluorometers are installed on the Liquid Robotics Wave Gliders presently traveling from Hawaii to Australia. On June 20th, the leading glider encountered an increase in chlorophyll and on June 26th, the trailing glider confirmed it. Distance traveled since the initial response show
The PSA Norway has given Statoil a consent to use the accommodation rig on the Norwegian Sea field.
Essar Projects Limited announced on Thursday, 28. June, the completion and handing over of the Rs 1,064-crore D1 development project, 200 kms off Mumbai,to ONGC, facilitating the scaling up of the D1 field production to 35,000 BOPD (barrels of oil per day). The largest offshore project executed by E
Laser technology specialist Measurement Devices US, LLC (MDL) has introduced the industry’s first custom designed land and marine survey vessel. Following the success of their Dynascan mobile mapping system and the increasing market demand for a combined multi-beam sonar and LiDAR data collection sy
Statoil has received consent to carry out drilling and completion with Transocean Searcher in the Norwegian Sea. The consent relates to drilling and completion of production wells on the Tyrihans field. The scheduled start-up date is 16 May 2012, with a duration until 20 March 2013. Tyrihans is loca
Adira Energy Ltd. has announced that the Ministry of Energy and Water of the State of Israel has granted an extension of the dates for the execution of a drilling contract and the spudding of the first well on the Samuel offshore license as indicated below: The date for the submission of the Environ
CAT Telecom, Thai telecom company, announced that it has commenced the construction of additional submarine cables in the Gulf of Thailand, Telegeography.com reports. The total worth of the contract is about THB2.7 billion (USD85 million) and has the aim of adding data bandwidth capacity and connect
Singapore’s KS Energy Limited last week announced that it had acquired a jack up drilling rig for a total consideration of US$38.5 million.
Swire Oilfield Services has announced that will be exhibiting at this year’s Offshore Energy 2012 Exhibition and Conference (Stand No. 319). On Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 October 2012, the 5th edition of Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference will take place at the Amsterdam RAI, The Netherlands.
In a bid to build the most efficient bulk carriers on the market, China Navigation has returned to Cargotec for 16 electrically-driven bulk versions of its variable frequency drive MacGregor cranes. The order has been booked in the second quarter 2012 order intake. For its new series of four 39,500
