There are great things happening aboard the vessel “Havila Phoenix” nowadays. During the last two years there have been installations and tests of a whole new system likely to revolutionise the offshore light well intervention market. The vessel, a Havyard 858 design, is designed and constructed by
Odyssey Marine Exploration, pioneers in the field of deep-ocean exploration, announced it has executed a contract with JBR Recovery Limited to support the logistics, refining and monetization of the anticipated silver cargoes from SS Gairsoppa and SS Mantola when recovered. Both the Gairsoppa and Ma
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. announced today that Kawasaki Gas Turbine-Americas, Kawasaki’s Houston-based sales and service affiliate for North and South American market, was awarded by Technip, which is one of the world’s leading engineering companies in the oil and gas field , a contract for su
CSL, the Aberdeen-headquartered project management and engineering company is currently supporting Endeavour Energy UK Limited (Endeavour) as preferred supplier for the provision of Offshore Company Representation in support of the Subsea Facilities Offshore Installation for the Rochelle Development
China’s manned deep-sea submersible Jiaolong arrived to Mariana Trench on Monday morning. There it will attempt to set a new diving record of a 7,000-meter dive, reported Xinhuanet. The deep-sea submersible will dive six times. During the first dive the divers will try to reach a depth of over 5,000
WGP Exploration announces two contract awards with TGS-Nopec for the provision of marine gravity equipment for their on-going multi-client projects in the North Sea. The projects, which commenced in late May, have an anticipated duration of six weeks and two months respectively. Complimenting marine
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Electronics Science and Technology Division, dive into underwater photovoltaic research to develop high bandgap solar cells capable of producing sufficient power to operate electronic sensor systems at depths of 9 meters. Underwater autonomous system
According to Subsea UK, an attempt to steal fibre optic subsea cables caused a failure of phone, internet and cash machine services in the Highlands. On Thursday the thieves tried to dig up the cable located between the villages of Lochcarron and Strathcarron in the Loch Carron. They believed that t
PGNiG Norway, a subsidiary of Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA, was notified by BP, the operator of the Skarv project, of successful connection of all 13 risers to the FPSO vessel, enabling the launch of oil and gas production from the Skarv field. To date, the connection of risers has bee
There are great things happening aboard the vessel “Havila Phoenix” nowadays. During the last two years there have been installations and tests of a whole new system likely to revolutionise the offshore light well intervention market. The vessel, a Havyard 858 design, is designed and constructed by
NOAA commissioned a state-of-the-art coastal mapping vessel, NOAA Ship Ferdinand R. Hassler, during a special ceremony at NOAA’s Marine Operations Center-Atlantic in Norfolk, Va. [mappress] Source: NOAA, June 11, 2012
Seaborn Networks announced that Sidera Networks will be making a long-‐term, capacity purchase on Seaborn’s US-‐Brazil submarine cable system. Seaborn Networks’ cable system, Seabras-1, is a new 32 Tbps submarine cable that will be the first direct route between Sao Paulo, Brazil and the United St
Scientists worry about the impact of the subsea turbines on deep-diving seabirds along the Scottish coastline, reported scotsman.com. Developers of the wave projects are now facing the problems that have been an issue for onshore wind farm developers for some time. Scientists in the Pentland Firth h
The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, announced the procurement of six Remote Operated Vehicles (ROV) for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). These small, remotely controlled, underwater robots will be provided by Aurora ROV Systems Ltd. of Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, at a cost of
