The Gazprom Board of Directors approved the work being done by the Company to implement the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline. It was noted that the construction process had undergone several milestones since the project moved to its investment stage in November 2012. On December 7, 2012
Ophir Energy plc (“Ophir” or “the Company”) announces that drilling operations have now commenced on the Mlinzi Mbali-1 well in Block 7, Tanzania. Ophir has an 80% net interest.The well is located c.210km east of Dar es Salaam and is being drilled by the Deepsea Metro I drillship. Mlinzi Mbali-1 is
Mermaid Maritime Public Company Limited announced that its business units serving the Middle East has recently been awarded a suite of subsea services contracts for air diving services including air diving for pipeline free-span correction and a subsea cable lay contract. All contract awards were se
CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA) has been awarded a contract from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for conducting measurements and modeling of the underwater pressure waves produced during explosive well decommissioning in the Gulf of Mexico. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforceme
Recently, Langlee Wave Power completed wave tank tests at Cehipar (Canal de Experiencias Hidrodinámicas de El Pardo) in Madrid and verified a 80% higher efficiency of the 132 kW Langlee Robusto compared to the previous design. Cehipar has one of the largest wave tanks in Europe, measuring 150×30 met
Unique Seaflex, a Unique Maritime Group company, which is one of the world’s leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution providers were recently contacted by Saipem in Portugal who were looking to urgently conduct a 550t load test on a derrick barge located at Point Noire in the Congo. W
Subsea 7 S.A. announced that on November 25 2013 the Company purchased 304,000 of its shares at an average price of NOK 121.08 per share. This represents approximately 0.09% of the Company’s issued share capital. The shares were purchased in accordance with the Company’s share repurchase programme p
Peter Madsen Rederi, a Danish company, has completed scour protection work at Amrumbank offshore wind farm. In six months of time, four Peter Madsen vessels placed two layers of bags on the seabed, around wind turbine foundations. This required 45,000 bags filled with 60,000 tons of dredged sand, in
Electricity supplies to communities in some of the most remote islands in the UK are more resilient following a £2.77m subsea investment. SHEPD has now completed the installation of three high voltage underwater cables between Eriskay and Barra in the Outer Hebrides and Rousay, Eday and Westray in O
On Saturday, November 23, “Sea Hurricane” was launched for the first time to join her sistership “Sea Storm” in Skagen Harbour. “Sea Storm” is scheduled to leave Skagen soon to carry out her operational duties, while “Sea Hurricane” will now undergo her formal sea trials prior to handover. Due for h
Wintershall and the two license partners Petoro AS and Centrica Resources (Norge) AS have a preferred solution for the development of the Maria field in the Norwegian Sea: According to the solution, the reservoir would be linked to the already existing infrastructure nearby via an underwater install
This week GDF Suez E&P Norge’s Deputy Managing Director, Geir Pettersen, participated at the NOC conference in Stavanger, where he spoke about the company’s future strategic focus areas on the Norwegian continental shelf. GDF SUEZ E&P Norge is the operator of the Gjøa field and has in the past year
Dana Petroleum has made an oil discovery in the Moray Firth following the drilling of the Liberator exploration well. Dana drilled 13/23d-8 on the Liberator Prospect in Licence P1987 as Operator and discovered hydrocarbons in a Lower Cretaceous Captain Sandstone reservoir. Detailed evaluation of the
Aker Solutions ASA secured a two-year option agreement extension valued at NOK 3 billion from Statoil ASA to provide maintenance and modifications work offshore Norway. The option is part of a 2010 framework agreement to provide maintenance and modifications work on the Statoil-operated offshore ins
