Ophir Energy has signed a Production Sharing Contract with the Myanmar Ministry of Energy which finalises the award of Block AD-03 offshore Myanmar. Ophir has a 95% operated interest in the block which is located in the Rakhine Basin. The Block is approximately 10,000km2 in size and is on trend with
SapuraKencana’s wholly-owned subsidiary, TL Offshore, has been awarded a contract by Vestigo Petroleum. The contract is for the Provision of Transportation and Installation (T&I) of the Central Processing Platform (CPP) for the Tembikai Development. The Tembikai Oil Project comprises transportation
The exhibition about the latest plans for reopening Dean Quarry is scheduled to be held at St Keverne Parish Hall, between 2pm and 8pm, Wednesday, and will be hosted by Shire Oak Energy. Shire Oak Energy intends to quarry more than 1.5 million tonnes of rock next year and ship it to Swansea Bay to [
SURF contractor, Ceona, has christened its flagship asset, the Ceona Amazon. The ‘Ceona Amazon’ has been internally designed at Ceona and purpose built to perform in multiple pipelay and operational modes. The Vessel also features a large storage capacity and heavy subsea construction capability. Sh
Alstom released a video describing the pilot tidal farm at Raz Blanchard, and the aims this project is expected to achieve. Alstom and GDF SUEZ consortium has been chosen as one of the suppliers of the equipment for the tidal energy pilot farm at Raz Blanchard, west of the Cotentin peninsula, an are
Digital Scotland is celebrating the completion of a once-in-a-generation subsea telecoms project which brings faster fibre broadband another step closer for many of Scotland’s most remote communities. Today (Thursday 4 December) the £410 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband project partners
Alcatel-Lucent and Cinia Group, previously Corenet, the Finnish Government-owned venture, will deploy an undersea cable system that will provide the first direct cable link between the Nordic region and continental Europe. The project, named Sea Lion, calls for the deployment of a new 100G system th
Bladt Industries, Aalborg, Denmark has awarded Seaway Heavy Lifting the contract for the transportation and installation of the Sandbank substation. The substation platform consists of a jacket, skirt piles and deck and requires to be installed in the Sandbank Offshore Wind Farm. At the substation,
Alewijnse Marine Systems has been awarded the contract for the full recondition of the electrical power and distribution systems of the 114 metre diving support vessel Seawell, owned by Helix Energy Solutions Group. The Seawell is currently in the North Sea and is expected at the Damen Shiprepair Ya
Aberdeen based, Hydro Group, a designer and manufacturer of underwater cables and connectors for subsea, underwater, topside and onshore applications, has secured a six figure contract with the Canadian Department of National Defence. Hydro Group has been selected by the Canadian National Defence Or
Searcher Seismic in conjunction with project partner MAGE, has announced the Echidna Regional Broadband 2D seismic survey in Ireland. The Echidna Regional Broadband 2D seismic survey comprises of approximately 9,000 km of high quality, long offset broadband 2D seismic data and will be the first comp
Stone Energy Corporation provided an operational update on its Cardona deepwater development project. The Cardona project initial production testing started in late November and the two wells (Cardona 4 and 5) have been tested and will be closely monitored with flow rates ramping up over a four week
FORCE (Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy) has invited fishers to a meeting to offer an update on the tidal energy project. FORCE is proposing a safety zone in the Minas Passage around the recently installed underwater power cables. The zone would help protect people, cables and fishing gear fro
KVH, Asia’s information delivery platform headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, announced a new backhaul service in Japan that connects Shima Cable Landing Station (CLS) with Tokyo and Osaka through KVH’s Ethernet backbone network. This new backhaul service, commercially available from December 15, 2014, w
