P&O Ferries, the UK’s leading ferry operator, is to enter the renewable energy market by supplying one of its large freight ships to act as an accommodation vessel for technicians working at an offshore wind farm in the North Sea. The three to four month charter of the 23,000 tonne European Seaway t
Grup Servicii Petroliere SA (GSP) has been awarded a contract by Wintershall Noordzee B.V., for offshore drilling. The first concerns the rig GSP Saturn, presently located on the continental shelf of Tunisia, which will be relocated to provide offshore drilling services under a long term contract, i
Malcolm Vincent BSc (Hons), MSc, CEng, FIMarEST, FIMechE, FIOD has been appointed the 110th President of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) at its AGM on 8 March. Andreas Chrysostomou has been appointed President Elect. Malcolm Vincent takes over the reins of offic
TORM announces that it has entered into an agreement to sell the MR product tanker TORM Lana. The parties have agreed not to disclose the sales price. TORM Lana will be delivered to the new owner in either the second half of March or the first half of April 2012. The transaction leads to […]
Market leading offshore equipment rental company, Seatronics, an Acteon Company has increased its commitment to Sonardyne’s sixth generation technology platform – 6G – with a major order for subsea acoustic positioning hardware. The equipment will be added to Seatronic’s equipment pool in Aberdeen f
Torsten Marten has taken up the new post of Brazil operations manager at NCS Survey, an Acteon company. Torsten will be based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from the 25 March and will look after all NCS’s current and future operations in the country. A graduate in hydrography and ocean science from the U
A region’s peak environment organization has stated that companies interested in exploring or mining the Pacific seafloor should be required to invest in protecting the underwater environment. David Sheppard, Director General of SPREP, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program stre
Alnmaritec recently successfully launched a new multi purpose offshore windfarm support vessel. ‘Ocean Wind 5′ is a variant of the extremely popular Wave Commander class from Alnmaritec. She measures 16m x 7m and is fitted with twin Scania DI16 engines giving her cruising speeds of over 24. On deck
The gas find “Luva” off Helgeland was renamed “Aasta Hansteen”. Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Ola Borten Moe, announced the new name during a speech at a Norwegian Sea conference held in Stjørdal on 8 March 2012. Aasta Hansteen was a campaigner for women’s rights and a high-profile participant i
A containership known as the Cap Cleveland has received a warm welcome on Wednesday afternoon as representatives from the Port and terminal operator ICTSI Oregon, Inc. recognize the first Portland call for German carrier Hamburg Süd. Adding the carrier to Portland’s international container carrier l
The Deep-Sea Scientific Drilling Vessel Chikyu, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), will embark on Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 343 Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST), from 1 April to 24 May 2012. The main goal of the JFAST p
The gas find “Luva” off Helgeland was today renamed “Aasta Hansteen”. Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Ola Borten Moe, announced the new name during a speech at a Norwegian Sea conference held in Stjørdal on 8 March 2012. Aasta Hansteen was a campaigner for women’s rights and a high-profile partici
The christening and launch of a pure car carrier, named the EMERALD ACE, took place today at the Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), for delivery to Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. The ship represents the last commercial vessel to be built at the Kobe Shipyard in co
An additional deep-water facility at Lerwick Harbour has been brought into operation ahead of schedule to support a major subsea project in the North Sea. Work was accelerated on an 80-metre section of the quay under development at Greenhead to make it available for use by Technip, a world leader in
