AW-Energy is taking a leap ahead of its competitors by setting up natural size, dry land testing facilities for Power Take Off Systems used in its WaveRoller wave energy converters. A rental agreement is now signed for huge industrial premises to house these facilities in Jarvenpaa, Finland. The tes
Petrobras announces that the P-58 FPSO production platform and the SS-88 TAD drilling support vessel (Tender Assisted Drilling), strategic projects in the 2013-2017 Business and Management Plan, are on their way to their respective locations in Parque das Baleias and Papa Terra, respectively. Yester
At Arklow Bank offshore wind farm, located on a shallow water sandbank in the Irish Sea, Fugro carried out maintenance that required the removal of wind turbine rotors and access to the hub. It was not possible to remove the blades individually so the entire rotors, each weighing 90 tonnes and with
CARIS representative Graciela Inés Lado was recently in Argentina for consultancy with the Servicio de Hidrografía Naval (Naval Hydrographic Service). The consultancy focused on CARIS Hydrographic Production Database (HPD), a database solution for the production of paper charts, Electronic Navigatio
CARIS users were recently in Wellington, New Zealand for the annual CARIS Hydrographic Production Database (HPD) and Bathy DataBASE (BDB) user group meetings. This was the first time the meetings were held in the southern hemisphere, which attracted a number of new participating agencies. CARIS user
The world’s leading grouting expert Densit has completed substation grouting at one of the biggest European wind farms West of Duddon Sands (UK). A joint venture between Scottish Power Renewables and DONG Energy West of Duddon Sands Limited, this wind farm will comprise a total installed capacity of
Six Royal Naval Reservists plunged into the waters of the diving training lake at the Navy’s Horsea Island training site, swimming across the lake, completing a timed set of circuits and leaping several times from the highest platform (over 30 feet) into the water, clutching their fins to their ches
Petrobras has announced that the oil production (oil plus natural gas liquids – NGL) from all of its fields in Brazil averaged 1.960 million barrels per day (bpd) in October, remaining practically stable in relation to its production in September (1.979 mbpd). Taking into account the volume operated
Polarcus Limited (“Polarcus” or the “Company”) announces the imminent commencement of a new multi-client program in the UK North Sea comprising two high density 3D broadband surveys. The program, supported by industry funding, will be acquired by Polarcus Naila utilizing the Company’s RIGHTBAND(TM)
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has signed a data licensing agreement with OMV Norge AS worth around USD 4 million for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS’s multi-client data library in the Hoop area in the Barents Sea. In addition, the agreement contains an uplift model whereby EMGS will r
Leo Hambro, Commercial Director of Tidal Transit, has announced that the company had just been awarded its third 18-month vessel charter contract by Scira Offshore Energy Limited. This will see the Eden Rose working alongside its sister vessels Ginny Louise and Tia Elizabeth transporting turbine tec
More than thirty new, and, as yet unclassified, species of marine life were discovered during a science expedition to the Amundsen Sea off Pine Island Bay in Antarctica. The Amundsen Sea is one of the least explored areas of the Southern Ocean. It contains several deep troughs and basins formed duri
From now on, new guidelines apply on the development of offshore wind power in German part of the North Sea, which regulate the protection of the North Sea harbor porpoises. As a result, the pile driving must be organized in a period when porpoises are in retreat, thus sufficiently far away from the
The successful contractors responsible for delivering marine-based site surveys for the Port of Hastings container expansion project were announced by the Minister for Ports, Mr David Hodgett and Port of Hastings Development Authority CEO, Mr Mike Lean. “Awarding these contracts is a significant mil
