It’s just past the halfway stage of the Olympic Regatta for the 49er and the Men’s and Women’s 470 divisions. So who’s up and who’s down, with just a few more races to go before the Medal Race? 49er UP Two teams are really up, the Aussies and the Danes. The Australians Nathan Outteridge and [&hellip
The taps have been turned on at the Saxi and Batuque fields – part of the ExxonMobil operated Kizomba C development project in Block 15 offshore Angola. Production has begun at Saxi and Batuque on the heels of the Mondo field, which started producing in January this year, partner StatoilHydro said.
Sweden’s PA Resources Group said it pumped 476,119 boe in July from its Norwegian and Tunisian operations at an average daily rate of 15,359 bbl. July’s output brought total PA production for the six months to the end of July 2008 to 2.74m boe. PA said output was boosted by a new production well com
Simpson Quarry in Pennsylvania ready to receive dredged spoil News – August 14, 2008 Simpson Solutions has announced that the Simpson Quarry in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, which is conveniently located near the Route 171 and Route 6 intersection, is now ready to receive material, including dredged spo
Just five weeks after returning the Clipper 07-08 Round the World Race Jamaica is racing once again with skipper Simon Bradley at the helm, assisted by first mate Juan Coetzer, one of the Clipper Training skippers, and a crew of non-professional sailors on board. The 68-foot ocean racing yacht is co
The unseasonable gale force winds buffeting the south coast of the UK this week are proving a challenge for the yachts competing in the RORC Cowes to Madeira Race, among them Jamaica, one of the ten 68-foot yachts of the Clipper 07-08 Round the World Yacht Race fleet. Jamaica is one of just five yac
SINGAPORE (1 July 2008) – On behalf of Tideway, its subsidiary for offshore oil and gas activities, Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME) group has ordered a new 19,000 tonnes carrying capacity fallpipe vessel. The vessel will be class DP II and fully equipped with a highly sophistic
Subsea specialist MCS has landed a contract from Acergy to carry out work on Marathon’s Volund field offshore Norway. MCS will perform detailed upheaval buckling analysis of a water injection flowline in the Volund Field at a depth of 120 metres. MCS said the project involves analysing a 12km water
SCAN Geophysical said it saw revenues of NOK 137.5 million in the second quarter this year. The seismic specialist made a net profit of NOK 6 million in the period, up from NOK 2 million in the same period in 2007. SCAN said it had seen a strong contribution from its two vessles in production, [&hel
Antrim Energy is eagerly anticipating the results of the latest appraisal well 21/28a-10z, which has just been completed on the Fyne Field in the UK Central North Sea. Results of the well, which is a sidetrack from the 21/28a-10 well, which encountered 32ft net 32 ft of net oil pay, are expected in
With three months to the start of the Vendee Globe, Mike Golding and Ecover 3 are looking forward to a two-boat testing period with Aviva and Dee Caffari. After a successful Artemis Challenge Race round the Isle of Wight this week, Mike Golding and the team are beginning a critical period in the dev
RACING Lasers and Laser Radials have their first day on the race course today in another day that looks set to be light and shifty. Their race course is the closest to the shore and with large towering cumulus developing over the city, expect the breeze to be variable in strength and direction. The
Renewable Energy Generation (REG) has been given the green light to raise capacity at its Goonhilly Downs wind farm on the Lizard Peninsular in Cornwall, UK to 15MW. The wind farm will be powered up from its current 5.6MW by replacing all of the existing turbines with more modern equipment. REG says
A new partner has agreed to join the Irish licence covering the Spanish Point prospect in the Porcupine Basin off the west coast of Ireland which could see two new wells drilled in the future. Prospect partners Providence Resources and Sosina Exploration have agreed the deal with privately-owned Chr
