Deltares is performing scale test with a coral reef in the Scheldt Flume in Delft. The tests, commissioned by the University of Western Australia in Perth, are to be completed at the end of November. Aim of the tests is to find out to what extent the disintegration of the coral reef affects wave exp
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS (ConocoPhillips) has received consent to use the Ekofisk 2/4-VB subsea facility for water injection on the Ekofisk field. ConocoPhillips has received consent to use the Ekofisk 2/4-VB subsea facility. The facility will inject water into the reservoir to stimulate oil pr
OrcaLab, a whale research station on Hanson Island, B.C., and SRM Projects Ltd., a renewable energy engineering firm from Nanaimo, B.C., jointly announced that they have found common ground after SRM Project’s tidal energy investigative license application for Blackney Passage raised concerns with O
The EPC conversion project FPSO P-63 (Papa Terra) has left the COSCO Dalian yard in China for its voyage to Brazil with a planned short stop-over in Singapore for refueling. Estimated arrival in Brazil is in February 2013, where the final integration of the remaining six modules will take place in Q
Subsea 7 S.A. today announced the award of a $70 million contract for subsea construction services associated with pipeline replacements North East of Shetland. A key part of the project is the fabrication and installation of 27km of replacement pipeline, and associated tie-ins to the existing infra
Fairmount Marine’s multipurpose support vessel Fairmount Fuji has supported Angolan maritime service provider Octomar Serviços Maritimos in underwater maintenance of the drilling rig Transocean Rather. The Fairmount Fuji hosted and assisted a diving team of Octomar during the six weeks job offshore
Neptune Marine Services Limited announces it has been awarded a contract from MODEC to complete new works at the MODEC Venture 11 floating production, storage and offloading facility (MV11) in the Carnarvon Basin located 160 kilometres north of Karratha, Western Australia. The contract will deliver
Santos today announced a significant gas discovery at the Crown-1 exploration well in WA-274-P, located in the Browse Basin offshore Western Australia. The Crown-1 well is located approximately 500 kilometres north of Broome, approximately 60 kilometres west of the Ichthys field and 20 kilometres ea
DW forecast that approximately $77bn will be spent on subsea vessel operations in field development, inspection, repair & maintenance (IRM) and subsea well intervention between 2012 and 2016. This is an increase of 63% over the preceding five-year period. Global vessel demand for these markets is ex
Total announces that it has finalized an agreement to sell its 20% contractor interest in OML 138 block to a wholly owned subsidiary of China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec), for approximately US$2.5 billion in cash (subject to post-closing adjustments). The agreement is subject to approval by t
LS Cable & System (Chairman & CEO Christopher Koo) announced that the Letter of Award (LOA) has been received for the contract of submarine power cable project worth over $440 million (about KRW50 million) ordered by Qatar Petroleum. This project is to install two 100km-long circuits i.e. 200km of 1
Welaptega Marine, world leader in mooring integrity verification, has been awarded a contract to inspect riser moorings on the high-profile Petrobras Cascade Chinook development in the Gulf of Mexico. Welaptega will measure mooring chains that connect four vertical risers to buoyancy tanks on the th
Spectrum announces the start of Phase II of its Multi-Client 3D survey in the Levantine Basin offshore Lebanon. The survey is carried out in cooperation with Fugro and the vessel will acquire the data by using 8 streamers. The survey is adjacent to Phase I and is to comprise 1,200 square kilometers.
DeepOcean has for the first time installed a subsea X-Mas tree from the specialised IMR vessel Edda Fauna. This is a milestone in the company’s IMR work for Statoil. DeepOcean has three ships that work year round performing several hundred different annual inspection, maintenance and repair work ann
