Benthic, a global geosciences company, has been awarded a contract by a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for a deepwater geotechnical investigation in the Golfinho Field off the coast of Mozambique. Benthic’s PROD (Portable Remotely Operated Drill), operating from the Jaya Vigilant, will
Ofgem has confirmed funding of £46.4 million for eight projects as part of its innovation competitions for the network companies that deliver energy to homes and businesses. Ofgem runs three innovation competitions to help Britain’s energy networks become smarter and more cost-efficient. The Low Car
Pelamis has been unable to secure the additional funding required for further development of the Company’s wave energy technology. As a result of this the board has reluctantly moved to appoint an administrator to assess the options for securing the future for the business and employees of Pelamis.
3D Oil Limited (TDO) announces that Beach Energy Limited has agreed to increase its funding of the expanded Flanagan 3D seismic survey in the T/49P permit in the offshore Otway Basin. The Flanagan survey is now programmed to record 974 sq km of full-fold data, significantly above the 755 sq km permi
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (November 17 – November 23). French oil services provider Technip has announced that, on Monday, November 10, 2014, it approached CGG to create a first tier oil and gas services provider. The pro
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) partners have announced the award of a broad Arctic study that will investigate the interrelationship among the physical, biological, chemical and social science components of the Beaufort Sea ecosyste
BG Group has announced the start-up of the Cidade de Ilhabela floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. This is the second unit deployed on the Sapinhoá field and the fifth FPSO to have come on stream across the interests in which BG Group is partner in the pre-salt Santos Basin, of
DONG Energy has awarded a contract for one of the largest seabed investigation campaigns in the history of the offshore wind industry to a UK company. Worth £13 million, the contract has been won by Wallingford-based Fugro GeoConsulting, part of the Fugro Group, the integrator of geotechnical, surve
The newest edition to Dolphin’s fleet, high-capacity purpose-built vessel M/V Polar Empress, owned by GC Rieber Shipping, had its helideck installed this week. The seismic company Dolphin Geophysical has contracted the vessel for a fixed period of five years, and the high end vessel will enter this
Statens vegvesen (The Norwegian Public Roads Administration) has been assigned to review the E39 as a ferry-free road connection along the coast of Vestlandet, Western Norway. This includes, as one of the main priorities, the construction of an underwater tunnel that crosses the Romsdal Fjord. The c
Deltares will be testing the design for the planned tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay, South Wales. Incorporating sixteen turbines that can deliver 320 MW, the tidal lagoon will be the world’s largest. It will be built to scale in the facilities hall in Delft so that the hydrodynamic efficiency of the des
Harkand has won a multi-million pound dive support contract from an undisclosed client. The contract award is for the Southern North Sea region and it’s expected to start later this month. Under the contract, Harkand will mobilise its dive support vessel the Harkand Atlantis to excavate and remove e
CGG has secured another commitment from an Exploration and Production company to its StagSeis multi-client solution in the Gulf of Mexico, this time with an earlier prefunder expanding their position. According to CGG, following the completion of the acquisition in October, StagSeis presales of all
Technip was awarded a contract from Tupi BV, a consortium controlled by Petrobras Netherland BV (PNBV, 65%) and constituted also by BG (25%) and Galp (10%), for the ongoing development of the Iracema North field, located in the Santos Basin pre-salt area, Brazil. Aiming to meet pre-salt challenges,
