Huntington Ingalls Industries, company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, has been awarded an advance procurement contract for work on the U.S. Navy’s third Zumwalt-class destroyer, DDG 1002. The contract is valued at $46 million, with the majority of the work taking place at the company’s Composite
TGS announces that it has signed a letter of award with Dolphin Geophysical to charter the 12 streamer new build vessel, M/V Polar Duchess, for 3D multi-client projects in Europe during the 2012 summer season. The charter is expected to begin during first half of April and will last for approximatel
U.S. oil & gas exploration and production company, ConocoPhillips, announced a 2012 capital program of $15.5 billion. The 2012 capital program for E&P is $14.0 billion and includes $2.2 billion for worldwide exploration, $0.4 billion of capitalized interest and $0.7 billion for the company’s contrib
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, said that the Leiv Eiriksson rig has been released by Cairn Energy PLC from drilling operations in Greenland and is now en route to the Falkland Islands for the upcoming B&
OceanServer Technology has unveiled a new “Base42” vehicle equipped with the L-3 Klein UUV-3500 High Resolution side scan sonar. This new Iver2 AUV model incorporates increased battery capacity for extended mission time, a higher capacity 120 GB Solid State drive for logging days of imagery, an exte
International Submarine Engineering Ltd. announces that the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has placed an order for an Explorer autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The vehicle will be used for marine search and recovery as well as survey operations. The JCG Explorer will also be supplied with a light-weigh
Pressure on the shipping industry to reduce the air emissions from vessels grows day by day. Regulations to more strictly limit the sulphur content in marine fuel are in place and set to tighten over the coming year. Exhaust gas scrubbers are one solution for vessels to meet such limits over the com
Drydocks World has signed a Contract with Singapore based AET for two Tanker-to-Modular Capture Vessel (MCV) conversion projects. AET is converting these vessels as part of the Marine Well Containment Company’s (MWCC) well containment system. MWCC is a not-for-profit, stand-alone organization with 1
Brazil’s ministry of communications announced a new Brazilian submarine telecommunications cable network project, which will include a direct link to Angola through Cape Verde. State-owned telecommunications firm Telebrás prepared preliminary plans,which expect the cables to leave the Brazilian city
Gävle hamn is in a phase of expansion and is investing in new quays, larger port areas, a new entrance fairway and improved rail connections. The investments will increase the port’s transport capacity by 40%, from the present 5 million tonnes to over 7 million tonnes of goods handled at the port’s
ProSep Inc. , dedicated to providing process solutions to the oil and gas industry, announced it was awarded a $1.4 million contract to supply M-I Swaco, a Schlumberger Company, with a proprietary CTour® produced water treatment system, for installation on an offshore platform operating on the Norwe
ProSep Inc., a provider of process solutions to the oil and gas industry, today announced it was awarded a $1.4 million contract to supply M-I Swaco, a Schlumberger Company, with a proprietary CTour® produced water treatment system, for installation on an offshore platform operating on the Norwegian
Blue Offshore, a specialist subsea construction contractor, have today announced that they have reached financial close on 28 October 2011 with ABN AMRO Bank N.V. The purpose of the financing is the manufacturing of their most recent cable installation system with delivery by 1st Quarter of 2012. Bl
At Uljanik shipyard’s slipway No.1, on 25th November 2011, the ceremony of laying of two keels for Yards 498 and 499 was successfully organized. Those keels will eventually become ships for the transportation of 54 wagons on the Caspian Sea and which are to be constructed by Uljanik for the Azerbaij
