The Australian Marine Conservation Society has welcomed the Greens policy to ban dumping in the Reef, stating it would pressure all major parties to adopt a ban. Felicity Wishart, the Great Barrier Reef campaign director said that the ban was crucial because the government was set to approve the dum
Brazilian oceanographic consulting firm HidroMares has been using a Homer Pro underwater relocation system supplied by Sonardyne Brasil Ltd. as part of a currents and waves monitoring survey in Sepetiba Bay, Rio de Janeiro. Contracted by Odebrecht as part of a shipyard and naval base construction pr
Operator Statoil has together with PL479 partners made a gas/condensate discovery in the Smørbukk North prospect at Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea. Exploration well 6506/9-3, drilled by the drilling rig Transocean Leader, has proven a 40-metre gas/condensate column in a down-to situation in the G
Halliburton officially opened the expansion of its Malaysia Manufacturing and Technology Centre in Senai, Malaysia. The additional capability will allow the company to expand its delivery of high-quality products to meet the growing needs of customers in the Eastern Hemisphere and globally. The comp
TGS has commenced expansion of a 2D multi-client survey in Northeast Greenland. The survey, NEG13, will enable customers to prepare for the announced Greenland Licensing Round in 2013/2014. Due to favorable ice conditions, TGS expects to acquire 4,200 km of 2D multi-client seismic data. This new dat
Comfort-at-Sea – the joint venture between Blue Water Shipping and International Shipping Partners has made an agreement with Areva to deliver two accommodation vessels for wind-projects in the German part of the North Sea. The vessels ‘Ocean Atlantic’ and ‘Sea Discoverer’ will operate on the offsho
Houlder and MPI Offshore prove bigger is better by installing 650t pile Gripper Arms. The pile Gripper Arms, installed this week, stabilise 6m diameter 650t steel piles as they are driven into the seabed by the MPI Discovery installation jack up vessel. Installed on the vessel’s stern below deck lev
An NOC underwater glider has completed a 58-day mission in the Irish Sea zigzagging a total of 1685 miles – while avoiding hazards such as fishing vessels and shipping lanes. The mission has provided over 10,000 profiles of the water column from the near surface to 100metres deep. Gliders are propel
Rijkswaterstaat Dienst Noordzee announces that it has awarded a provision and maintenance contract for a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV). The contract is for a period of five years and it includes a control cabin, launch and recovery system (LARS) and an Ultra-short baseline underwater positioning s
Partrac Ltd were contracted recently by TSL Contractors to provide marine monitoring services which included acoustic (marine noise) data acquisition prior to, and during, piling works for the construction of Fishnish Pier, Sound of Mull, Scotland. The installation of driven piles in the marine envi
TenneT Offshore GmbH announces tender invitations for cable laying ship services. The contract includes maintenance of the stored parts and SLA for the repair of the high voltage cable systems alpha ventus (Lot 1) and BorWin1 (LOS2) maintenance and regular inspection and maintenance of embedded part
SRM Projects received Transport Canada Navigable Waters Protection Program’s (NWPP) approval in July 2013 for its proposed tidal energy investigative license applications at South Discovery Passage and Seymour Narrows. SRM Projects initiated tidal energy investigative license applications in 2012 fo
Global oil and gas service provider AGR has won a major contract to deliver a two-year frame agreement for the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD). Under the agreement, AGR’s Norway-based Reservoir Management Team will deliver services within geology and reservoir engineering, including reservoir
Fujitsu Australia Limited (Fujitsu) and Trident Subsea Cable System Pty Ltd (Trident) announce that they have entered into a working agreement to develop and agree arrangements and associated commercial detail for the design and delivery of a state-of-the-art fibre telecommunications network between
