The University of Washington, working with NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC), recently retrieved a BioSonics DT-X SUB split beam echosounder after a 1-month deployment in northern Admiralty Inlet, WA. The study location is a proposed Snohomish Public Utility District tidal energy dem
The University of Washington,recently retrieved a BioSonics DT-X SUB split beam echosounder after a 1-month deployment in northern Admiralty Inlet, WA. The study location is a proposed Snohomish Public Utility District tidal energy demonstration project site. The BioSonics DTX-SUB is an autonomous s
Hapag-Lloyd Cruises is visually unifying the appearance of its fleet. After a 13-day-ship yard stay at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg/ Germany, the HANSEATIC now features the Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ characteristic colors, an orange and blue band, as well as an orange funnel with the cruise lines logo. The com
Shoaibi Group, the commercial, technical and market experts in Saudi Arabia’s oil and gas industry have signed an exclusive distribution… (ameinfo) [mappress] Source: ameinfo, June 16 , 2011;
Cairn announces a number of changes to the composition of its board of Directors all of which will be effective from 1 July 2011. The Non-Executive Chairman, Norman Murray, will stand down from the board, as will Malcolm Thoms, Chief Operating Officer and Philip Tracy, Group Engineering and Operatio
SHANGHAI will build two more offshore wind farm projects by 2015 to increase the use of clean energy, the city’s planner said yesterday… By Richard Fu (shanghaidaily) [mappress] Source: Shanghai Daily, June 16, 2011
Emissions of CO2 and NOx from petroleum activities are relatively stable. Discharges to the sea of produced water and oil have not changed much in the last few years either. The authorities and the oil industry agree that there are too many accidental discharges on the Norwegian shelf. The operators
Knud E. Hansen A/S in partnership with Fleetway Inc. have recently signed a contract with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador (GNL) in Canada for the Basic Design of a series of six ferries for operation on the intra-provincial south shore routes off Newfoundland. This is the second such arr
Cygnus Instruments, the leading UK manufacturer of digital multiple echo ultrasonic thickness gauges, have launched a new range of ROV mountable devices. The new gauges are designed to work at greater depths, streamline the measurement process and provide unrivalled functionality. With two new model
Det norske oljeselskap ASA has as license partner made a gas discovery in the Norvarg prospect in the Barents Sea license 535, operated by Total E&P Norge AS. Exploration well 7225/3-1 has not been completed. Preliminary well data indicate gas at three different levels, a significant part of it in t
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, today announced that it has won a £15 million order to design and equip two offshore service vessels for ship owner Brasil Supply. The vessels, of the Rolls-Royce UT775 E design, will be chartered by Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras and are designed
Karoon Gas Australia Ltd provides the following information to clarify media reports over the previous day in relation to the status of relevant federal government approvals for its proposed Browse Basin drilling program. During May 2011 a new application for a drilling approval was submitted to the
A/S Norske Shell (Shell) has been granted consent for use of the mobile well intervention facility Island Constructor for maintenance of subsea facilities on the Draugen field. In September 2010, Shell was granted consent to perform maintenance on wells A55H and B2H. However, the work was postponed.
Wärtsilä Corporation, the global leader in complete power lifecycle solutions and services, and Metso Corporation have signed an agreement to co-operate in developing and delivering scrubber systems for marine applications. Under the terms of this agreement, Metso is to supply the scrubber unit, whi
