A sales pitch by Nova Innovation on local tidal energy generation was held on April 7 at the Eilean Eisdeal, the community trust on Easdale Island, Forargyll informs. Last year Nova Innovation engaged in consultations with Eilean Eisdeal and neighbouring slate islands of Luing and Seil, on advantage
BMT Isis Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, has announced the completion of its latest project to validate BMT’s design for the Portsmouth Approach Channel, a design conceived to ensure that the Royal Navy’s new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales ca
Ibercisa has supplied deck equipment for the lay vessel “North Ocean V” for the North American Company McDermott, built at the Vigo shipyard Metalships & Docks. The supply includes combined anchor winches for 60 mm diam. chain, mooring winches machinery and pedal driven Capstan bollards. This is the
Woodside, an Australian petroleum exploration and production company, has postponed a Final Investment Decision for its Browse LNG Project for 2013. The company says that that the Commonwealth Minister for Resources and Energy and the WA Minister for Mines and Petroleum have approved amendments to t
As already announced, there is a second Managing Director at Hartmann Shipping since March 1 st : Mr. Jan-Lars Kruse (37). He is responsible for the financial part, while Capt. Michael Ippich, Managing Director of the company since August 2011, accounts for the company’s technical matters. Trained b
STATS Group’s strategy of expanding its presence in the Middle East and GCC States took a significant step forward with their attendance at the Best Practices in Pipeline Operation and Integrity Management conference in Bahrain. As a Platinum Sponsor of the event, it gave the company an excellent ex
BG Group today announced the completion of drilling at an appraisal well in the Petrobras-operated BM-S-11 concession, offshore Brazil, with good quality oil samples encountered. The results confirm the westerly extension of the Iara accumulation in the pre-salt Santos Basin and demonstrate the high
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS (COPSAS) has received consent to use the jack-up drilling facility Mærsk Innovator to drill eight water injection wells on the Ekofisk field. The consent covers the drilling of eight water injection wells with the objective of maintaining the formation pressure in the s
On April 10th 2012, Hyundai-Vinashin Shipyard honorably cerebrated Naming Ceremony for 37.000 DWT Bulk Carrier bearing the Hull No. S067 with the attendance of representatives from Owner, Class and Yard. The Hull No. S067, officially named “Hanjin Isabel”, is the last vessel of the series of the 2 c
OOCL announces that Mr. Andy Tung, currently the Chief Operating Officer of OOCL, will succeed Mr. Philip Chow, as the new Chief Executive Officer of the company effective July 1, 2012. Mr. Tung will also continue to be an Executive Director and a member of the Executive Committee of Orient Overseas
Over the last 18 months, Seatronics, an Acteon Company, Technip, Star Net Geomantics and BlueView Technologies have been involved in developing the BlueView 3D system for underwater metrology. This work has included several onshore dry dock trials in Peterhead and Fraserburgh, UK. Seatronics, along
Petrobras announces that last Sunday afternoon, April 8, a submarine inspection found a seepage of oil droplets in the Roncador field seabed, located 120 kilometers off the coast of Rio de Janeiro and approximately 500 meters away from the Frade field border line. No oil slick was seen on the surfac
Since 2008, SMIT and URS have been training their tug masters in the Netherlands and Belgium with MARIN Mermaid simulators. As part of its Tug Master program, SMIT used a Compact Manoeuvring Simulator called “De Brug” for purposes of training and assessment at its office in Rotterdam. In parallel, U
StorageDNA, Inc. announced that DNA Evolution™ was selected as the archive workflow solution for Digital Pictures’ customized RANGER Data Cart for the National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence, James Cameron’s “DEEPSEA CHALLENGE”. Digital Pictures chose the LTFS LTO-5 backup solution for thi
