Dyer Engineering has increased the size of its manufacturing facilities to almost 90,000 sq. ft. to meet the demand for its fabrication and machining services from the oil & gas and subsea industries. The Annfield Plain-based company has leased the premises in Harelaw, which has created an additiona
Recent reports indicate that the scale of opportunity arising from North Sea decommissioning is growing, with industry set to spend at least £35billion by 2040. As the dedicated North Sea industry forum, Decom North Sea (DNS) facilitates and drives collaboration with the key objective of delivering
Shell announced a frontier exploration discovery offshore Gabon, West Africa. The well Leopard-1 encountered a substantial gas column with around 200 metres net gas pay in a pre-salt reservoir. Leopard-1 is located around 145 kilometres off the Gabonese coast, west of Gamba. It was drilled in water
A VideoRay Pro 4 Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) has supported the Offshore Acceptance Testing (OAT) for two cranes on McDermott’s newest vessel, the Lay Vessel 108 (LV-108). The LV-108 is a pipe lay vessel, measuring 434 ft long and 89 ft wide. The LV-108 currently undergoing fitting and test of tw
A team of researchers led by NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries have discovered two significant vessels from World War II’s Battle of the Atlantic. The German U-boat 576 and the freighter Bluefields were found approximately 30 miles off the coast of North Carolina. Lost for more than 70 ye
Electromagnetic Geoservice (EMGS) has verified the contract award in Malaysia for an undisclosed client, with reference to the announcement of a letter of intent signed on October 6. According to the letter of intent (LOI) the 3D EM data acquisition contract value is $6.8 million. Following the LOI
FMC Technologies has reported third quarter 2014 revenue of $2.0 billion, up 15 percent from the prior-year quarter ($1.7 billion). Diluted earnings per share were $0.72, which includes a $17 million, or $0.07 per diluted share charge, net of tax, related to an intercompany foreign currency transact
Statoil has together with PL169 partners proved new oil resources in the D-structure in the vicinity of the Grane field in the North Sea. Well 25/8-18 S, drilled by the rig Transocean Leader, proved an oil column of 25 meters in the Heimdal Formation. The estimated volume of the discovery is in the
The oceanographic research ship ‘Hespérides’ has set sail from her home port in Cartagena on October 20th to participate in the 28th Antarctic campaign. 15 research projects will be carried out, nine of them financed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Competitiveness. This year’s campaign is ex
Mining phosphate on the Chatham Rise, off the east coast of New Zealand’s south island, could potentially have many impacts on marine mammals like whales and dolphins, the Environmental Protection Agency was told today. Whale expert, University of Otago’s Associate Professor Liz Slooten, gave eviden
Ocean Power Technologies has announced today that the PB40 PowerBuoy® fabricated for the WavePort Project has shipped from Santander, Spain to Bayonne, NJ with the intent to deploy off the coast of New Jersey in the first quarter of 2015. The PowerBuoy is expected to arrive around mid-November and h
The Underwater Centre, Tasmania, has appointed a new diver trainer to support the increasing demand for its commercial diving courses. David Loudon joins the Centre from Gilbert Diving PTY, where he spent the last three years as a diver and workshop manager. Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme (AD
IBERDROLA chairman, Ignacio Galán, has been awarded as Commander of the Order of the British Empire, by the British Ambassador in Spain, Simon Manley. This honorary award, bestowed by HM Queen Elizabeth II on recommendation of the British Government, recognises the important role played by Galán in
The Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) has started to install up to four underwater power cables in the world’s highest tides. These cables will allow tidal turbines in the Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy to deliver power to Nova Scotia’s electricity grid. The FORCE team successfully install
