Aker Solutions has received a Letter of Award from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), to supply two drilling equipment packages to the new ‘Cat D’ drilling rigs the yard is building for the rig operator Songa Offshore. Options (if exercised) for two additional units are included. Contr
Yukon River in-stream hydrokinetic turbine was thought to be the first of its kind placed into commercial operation – a pretty cool designa… (earthtechling) [mappress] Source: earthtechling, August 26, 2011;
MAN Diesel & Turbo SE is to equip four new ocean-going specialist vessels with complete propulsion systems. The Augsburg-based leading manufacturer of large-bore diesel engines and turbomachinery has secured a contract to deliver 16 four-stroke engines with gears and controllable pitch propellers to
The mother ship of China’s manned deep-diving submarine, Jiaolong, has completed its mission of a 5,000-meter dive in the Pacific Ocean betw… (chinadaily) [mappress] Source: chinadaily, August 26, 2011;
Last spring, a volcano erupted 425 kilometers (about 265 miles) off the Oregon coast and far below the surface, at Axial Seamount. No one was aware for months. Now, the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative will survey the site and stream live video of the volcano. It’s the fi
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA announce that it has been awarded a contract worth USD 90 million by Petrobras to perform a range of electromagnetic (EM) surveys in frontier and mature basins offshore Brazil. Data acquisition will be performed using the vessel BOA Galatea and is expected to take app
Gryphon field operator Maersk Oil has awarded TWMA a contract to handle and dispose of subsea structures and equipment damaged during the Gr… (engineerlive) [mappress] Source: engineerlive, August 25, 2011;
The PGS Crystal III Wide Azimuth survey illuminates and eliminates the unknown in East Breaks. This MultiClient survey is available now, in time for the highly anticipated Lease Sale 218 in the Western Gulf of Mexico on December 14, 2011. This survey, which covers 485 OCS blocks, or 11,300km², in Ea
Chesapeake Technology Inc. , a world leader in real-time sonar data acquisition and advanced sonar processing has released an updated version of its flagship product, SonarWiz 5. New features were designed in response to customer feedback to speed up mission planning, target prosecution and change d
Kvaerner and COOEC have jointly invested in engineering and fabricating of a demonstration module to document the partners’ combined capabilities for delivering new offshore oil and gas platforms. After the start of the engineering and procurement in January 2011, the fabrication of the module was c
In spring of this year MMT was awarded the marine route survey contract for the NordLink Submarine Cable. Since the mid nineties several power cable connections between Norway and Germany have been on the drawing board. The landfall areas in Norway have all been in the Lista and Fedafjorden area, wh
Paradigm™ announced today that Fugro has selected the Paradigm Reverse Time Migration to meet its challenging depth imaging objectives. Reverse Time Migration is a preferred solution for imaging of seismic data in areas affected by complex wave phenomena, such as those encountered in the deep waters
Hallin Marine Australia, a Superior Energy Services company, has mobilised a Construction Class remotely operated vehicle system, C-ROV, onboard the support ship Go Altair. The system will be used to carry out a programme of pipeline and platform inspection on behalf of AGR Asia Pacific in Bass Stra
NOAA, Shell Exploration & Production, ConocoPhillips, and Statoil USA E&P Inc. signed an agreement to enhance collaboration on ocean, coastal and climate science for the Arctic. The agreement calls for sharing a number of scientific data sets for this largely frontier region, including weather and o
