HRT Participações em Petróleo S.A. (HRT), together with its wholly-owned subsidiary, HRT Oil & Gas Ltda (HRTO&G), have acknowledged the approval of the request for the Assignment of Interests regarding a 60% participating interest in the Polvo Field from BP Energy do Brasil Ltda (BP) to HRT O&G by t
A rock placement vessel ‘Seahorse’ is now at the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm site and will start to lay rocks as a scour protection around all of the turbine bases. ‘Maersk Responder’ is currently in Liverpool for mobilisation and can be expected to arrive on site early next week to carr
Ports of Normandy Authority (PNA) has issued a call for tenders for the production and installation of foundations for marine renewable energies at the Port of Cherbourg. With an aim to make Cherbourg a major offshore renewables hub, the PNA is now strengthening the infrastructure of the port by con
Internationally-renowned subsea training facility, The Underwater Centre, Tasmania, is responding to increased worldwide demand for skilled ROV personnel by offering a new course designed specifically to cater for the oil and gas industry. As spending on ROV work class operations in the global secto
Statoil, along with partners ConocoPhillips and Nunaoil, has been awarded block 6 in the East Greenland licence round. Statoil will be operator of the block. Block 6 is located offshore north-east Greenland in a frontier area. Statoil will hold 52.5%, ConocoPhillips will have 35% and Nunaoil will ha
South Stream Transport submitted the draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Report for the Turkish Sector of the South Stream Offshore Pipeline to the countries’ Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation. As a result of the design and management of the Project, construction and operation of the
TGS has announced the acquisition of a 3D multi-client seismic survey, The Nerites 3D, which covers 8,300 km2 in the Great Australian Bight, offshore South Australia. The survey, scheduled to commence in early January 2014, will cover two of the newly released petroleum exploration blocks in the Gre
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) and TGS have agreed to expand the cooperation agreement, as described in the stock exchange notice dated 23 May 2013, in the Barents Sea from 11 to 17 blocks. In addition, TGS will increase its investment in all the 17 blocks. “The expansion of this agreement c
The interconnector between Norway and the Netherlands has been out of operation since a violent storm hit the Netherlands October 28th and damaged the converstation in Eemshaven. The damage is now repaired and the cable will be back in operation and available to the electricity market from Friday 20
Hydrex was the first company to show that it was possible to remove and then replace thrusters by creating a dry environment underwater. Using the Hydrex-developed steel mobdocks to seal off the thruster tunnel, with an access shaft protruding above the water, work teams accessed the thruster tunnel
Hydrex teams carried out a wide range of underwater propeller operations on tankers around the world. Among them a propeller blade straightening on a 248-meter ship in Algeciras, Spain, a blade cropping on a 183-meter vessel in Flushing, the Netherlands, and a spinner cone (Propeller Boss Cap Fins –
Last month a Hydrex diver/technician team carried out underwater stern tube seal repairs on a 148-meter container vessel in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The ship was suffering from an oil leak, making an on-site repair necessary. Using one of the company’s flexible mobdocks the team was able to carry ou
Fugro has been awarded a contract by Subsea 7 Australia Contracting Pty Ltd to provide survey services to support its Heavy Lift and Tie-Ins contract on the Chevron-operated Gorgon Project, off the northwest coast of Western Australia. The contract involves the provision of a DP2 survey vessel, comp
DONG Energy has acquired the remaining 50% interest in three Dutch offshore wind development projects from its joint venture partner SSE. The projects, Den Helder 1, Breeveertien II and West-Rijn, have a total consented capacity of up to 1,050 megawatt and are located in the North Sea off the coast
