APEM has won a major contract to collect and analyse over 1,000 samples from the seabed in the eastern English Channel and off the south coast, for eight marine aggregate operators with licensed interests across the region. Offshore surveys organised by APEM will collect 1,060 ‘grab’ samples of the
Last week, all 77 monopile foundations were successfully installed at the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 1 in the German North Sea. Installation was carried out using a noise mitigation system to lower the impact on adjacent marine life. It is the first time ever that this system has been used
John Giddens, who built Hallin Marine into a global subsea services player after starting it from a container in his back garden, has re-entered the industry with the announcement of the build of a 105m subsea operations, diving and ROV support vessel. The contract for the construction of the vessel
Leidos, a national security, health and engineering solutions company, has been awarded a prime contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Coast Survey (OCS) to provide hydrographic surveying services. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity
Inch Cape Offshore Limited (ICOL) has launched the Request for Proposals process for the Wind Farm and Transmission Works Packages of the Inch Cape Offshore Wind Project. The Wind Farm package will involve the design, delivery and installation of the WTG Foundations and Substructures and Inter-array
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) report on the success of C-Enduro under the UK Government backed Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI). ASV designed and built C-Enduro, a long endurance marine unmanned surface vehicle under an SBRI led by the National Oceanogrpahy Centre (NOC) and co-funded
Providence Resources P.l.c. has delivered an update on Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 6/14 . Providence Resources and Sosina Exploration were originally awarded a licensing option over Newgrange as part of the 2011 Irish Atlantic Margin Licensing Round. Earlier this year, with the agreement of t
Michael Redmayne has joined CARIS’ US Operation as the Account Manager for the region. Michael brings with him 10+ years of hydrographic experience from the Royal Navy, the US Navy Fleet Survey Team and from the private sector at Teledyne Odom, where he spent the last 4 years as the Senior Hydrograp
Statoil has together with its partner Idemitsu Petroleum Norge made a small gas discovery in the Mercury prospect in PL614 in the Barents Sea. This completes Statoil’s 2014 exploration programme in the Hoop area. This summer Statoil drilled three exploration wells in the Hoop area in the Barents Sea
Providence Resources P.l.c., the Irish oil and gas exploration and development company, has provided a licence update on Standard Exploration Licence 1/11 and Licensing Option 12/4 which contains the Barryroe oil field and potential field extensions. Providence Resources (80%, Operator) and its part
TGS has announced a multi-year collaboration agreement with FairfieldNodal to develop, plan and execute multi-client Full Azimuth Nodal (FAN) seismic surveys across a substantial area within the U.S. Gulf of Mexico shelf region. This initiative will combine FairfieldNodal’s proven Ocean Bottom Node
Calecore’s Offshore Geophysical division has seen a steady increase in demand over the past two years for ROV Survey Services. In June WROV operations were undertaken onboard the Kommandor Calum for a project West of Shetland whilst the Kommandor Stuart has been undertaking multiple integrated 2DHR,
Lundin Petroleum AB has completed the first well in its 2014 Malaysian drilling campaign with the successful drilling and testing of Tembakau-2 appraisal well in Block PM307, offshore Malaysia. Tembakau-2 was drilled by the jackup rig West Prospero to a depth of 1,450 metres in 68 metres water depth
Proserv has further consolidated its position for future growth by appointing two vice presidents to its senior management team. Paul Douglas has been promoted to the role of VP operations with Bruce Stuart joining Proserv as VP sales and business development for Europe and West Africa (EWA) from FM
