A Soviet submarine lost during the World War II was recently found by Swedish divers on the seabed of the Baltic Sea. The submarine was identified thanks to Russian letters still readable on the sub’s hull and the year of 1936 stamped on the main 100-mm gun. Experts of Central Navy Portal suggest it
Nido Petroleum Limited announces that the Galoc Joint Venture has approved the Final Investment Decision (FID) on the Phase II Development of the Galoc oil field in the North West Palawan Basin, offshore Philippines. The Phase II Development involves the drilling of two new horizontal wells tied bac
A team of archaeologists and technicians assembled by NOAA yesterday started creating a three-dimensional sonar map to document the… [mappress] Source: NOAA, September 11, 2012
Goliat, the first oil field in the Barents Sea, will soon be onstream. The first full-scale exercise of Goliat’s oil spill contingency operations will take place between 10th and 14th September. The Goliat project brings with it new organisational principles for oil spill contingency operations on t
InterMoor, an Acteon company, has completed installation of the drilling and production conductors for the Papa Terra project, announced Global President Tom Fulton. Petrobras serves as the operator of the Papa Terra concession with a 62.5 percent interest; Chevron holds the remaining 37.5 percent i
Det norske oljeselskap ASA (Det norske) has received consent to carry out manned underwater operations on the Jette field. The Jette field is part of production licence 027D and is located in blocks 25/7 and 25/8 in the North Sea. The field is located approx. 180 kilometres west of Haugesund and six
KD Marine announces that they will be completeing work for Marathon Oil UK LLC in September. The contract is to carry out subsea work on Marathon Oil’s East Brae platform in the North Sea. KD Marine will use their custom built Daughter Craft, which will be launched from a larger support vessel, to m
BP today announced it has agreed to sell its interests in a number of oil and gas fields in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico to Plains Exploration and Production Company (‘Plains’) for a total of $5.55 billion, as part of a previously-announced plan to divest the assets and position its Gulf portfoli
Hydrosphere UK Ltd has supervised the successful build of four high visibility navigation buoys, supplied to Belfast Harbour to mark the deepwater approach to the main channel – and Seawork played its part in bringing the project to fruition. During the procurement process, Belfast Harbour Master, K
SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad announced that SapuraAcergy Sdn Bhd (“SASB”) has been awarded a contract for the charter of a vessel, Sapura 3000, to Construcciones Maritimas Mexicanas S.A. de C.V. SASB is a joint-venture company equally owned by SapuraKencana and Subsea 7 S.A. The Award comprises pr
MEO Australia Limited provides the following update in relation to the continuing project development activities related to the Tassie Shoal suite of projects. Following receipt of Expressions of Interest from major international industry participants for 8.3 million tonnes per annum of methanol off
Bahamas Petroleum announces that, following the recent general election in the Bahamas, it has received written confirmation from The Government of The Bahamas (the “Government”) regarding its existing licences on 7 September 2012. The Company has been notified that it is, and has been, in full comp
Fugro (Mexico) in conjunction with long-time associates, Constructora Subacuatica Diavaz, S.A. de C.V., has been awarded a large offshore multi-site high resolution geophysical and geotechnical survey. Fugro was awarded the contract by Mexico’s national oil company PEMEX. Overall value of the contra
TGS in partnership with PGS have commenced a new 20,000 km multi-client 2D survey over the Northeast Newfoundland Shelf. The seismic data is being acquired by the M/V Sanco Spirit and utilizes PGS GeoStreamer® technology. Data acquisition will continue into early Q4 2012 and the vessel will return i
