In the afternoon of March 16th, the delivery documents for No.2 16.900 DWT Bulk Carrier (HULL NO.:SF080102 ) were signed in the Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering Co. Administrative Office Building. The vessel was the second one among 8 sister vessels contracted with POLSTEAM by Sanfu shipyard and is cl
Hurricane Exploration plc (“Hurricane”), an oil exploration company focused on hydrocarbon resources in fractured basement reservoirs, announces that it has appointed EPC Offshore to select the optimum concept for the development of Hurricane’s Lancaster discovery, one of the most significant oil di
On 12 March 2012, SCF Group delivered a new product tanker SCF Prudencia – a further ship for SCF’s joint venture with Glencore International AG, the world’s largest oil trader. With the addition of this latest vessel the joint venture fleet of SCF and Glencore, which was established in November 201
Fugro, a Dutch company which is one of the world’s leading service provider for the collection and interpretation of data relating to the earth’s surface and sub-surface and for associated services and advice in support of infrastructure development on land, along the coast and on the seabed announc
EMU is an independent marine survey and environmental consultancy specialist with annual revenues of over EUR 20 million. Based in Southampton, it also has premises in Portsmouth, Edinburgh, UK, Dinard, France and Perth, Australia. The company conducts ecological, geophysical, sediment sampling and
Subsea 7 S.A. announces that the Board of Directors has appointed Eystein Eriksrud as a Non-Executive Director to the Board of Directors returning the Board to its complement of nine Directors. Eystein Eriksrud (42) is the Deputy CEO of the Siem Industries Group. Prior to joining Siem Industries in
The Port of Long Beach on Friday welcomed the largest container ship ever to call to North America, the MSC Fabiola. The vessel, measuring 1,200 feet in length and capable of carrying more than 12,000 container units, docked at Pier T on Terminal Island. “This is the largest container vessel now ser
IHC Merwede has announced that the naming and launch ceremony of the trailing suction hopper dredger, DCI DREDGE XIX, is scheduled for Monday, 2 April 2012. The ship is being built for Dredging Corporation of India Ltd. at the IHC Offshore & Marine yard, Schaardijk 24, 2921 LG Krimpen a/d IJssel, Th
Otto Marine Limited, a leading offshore marine company which specializes in building complex offshore support vessels, ship chattering and offers specialized offshore services, announced that it has secured a time charter contract from a prominent Mexican offshore platform construction company for a
The Underwater Centre, Fort William saw half of a recent ROV class employed by leading providers of subsea services to the oil and gas industry, DOF Subsea, following the company’s attendance at an open day at the Centre. A DOF Subsea representative attended the open day at The Underwater Centre to
Adding new instruments to an oceanographic mooring or underwater observatory can be a difficult and time-consuming process. Each instrument has to be custom programmed to communicate with a host computer or observatory network. To simplify this process, MBARI engineers developed a communication prot
One of them concerns construction of two modern car – passenger ferries for the shipping company in Norway. The Owner has significant fleet for serving public transport in Norway. Four shuttle car – passenger ferries built in REMONTOWA SHIPBUILDING are part of them. To improve his competitiveness th
The well was completed as a dual producer to a depth of 2,765 metres. It tested for initial production at 1,682 barrels of oil per day at the short string with the long string testing at 1,714 barrels of oil per day.
The multi-component seismic company Reservoir Exploration Technology ASA (RXT) has received a contract award for an Ocean Bottom Cable survey off the west coast of Ireland. The objective is to improve imaging and data bandwidth at the reservoir target, while also improving multiple elimination. The
