Pacific Crossing, a Japanese company that owns an underwater fiberoptic telecommunications cable that connects the U.S. to Asia, is opposing the proposed tidal power installation near Whidbey Island, Puget Sound, USA. According to OPB News, the Japanese company that owns a fiberoptic cable that pass
The first of 160 steel foundations that will make up Gwynt y Môr, one of Europe’s largest offshore wind farms has been successfully installed off the north Wales coast. The achievement has been celebrated by RWE npower renewables, which is constructing the wind farm over the next two years, to gener
Statoil has farmed down a 25% working interest in its operated exploration licence offshore Mozambique to Tullow Oil plc (Tullow). The licence, which consists of two blocks under one licence agreement is located in area 2 and 5 offshore Mozambique in the Rovuma basin. “The farm-down reflects the att
Viper Subsea has received praise from the UK Government for breaking into the Brazilian market. Trade and Investment Minister Lord Green applauded Viper Subsea for securing a contract to supply equipment for a deep-water development in the Santos Basin. Viper Subsea’s Santos Basin deal was announced
Aker Solutions’ operating revenues were NOK 11.9 billion in the second quarter and NOK 21.7 billion for the first six months of 2012. The latter is 33 per cent higher that the same period in 2011. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA), excluding non-recurring items, a
Lundin Petroleum AB announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has commenced the drilling of well 7220/10-1 in PL533 on the Salina prospect (formerly referred to as Pulk) in the Barents Sea. The well is located 54 km to the south west and on geological trend with the
August 10th, 2012 DeepOcean AS (“DeepOcean”), a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group, has been awarded a significant call-off under the current long-term frame agreement for offshore survey services for Statoil. In general the frame agreement includes services covering light construction services, ROV surv
Leading international oilfield services company Expro has been awarded a contract for work in the North Sea using its ground-breaking AX-S subsea well intervention system. Expro AX-S Technology Ltd has signed a multi-million dollar contract with BG Group to intervene on two wells in late 2012 as wel
A new well control incident study reveals significant gaps between causes in investigation reports and the viewpoints cited by professionals in interviews. The industry should, among other things, investigate more well control incidents and implement more technical measures. While the results from t
Modus Seabed Intervention has secured a major contract on EDF Energy Renewables prestigious Teesside Offshore Wind Farm. Main contractor Van Oord’s appointment of Darlington-based Modus, to provide trenching and survey services on this high profile North Sea project, is an acknowledgement of the reg
Public officials, scientists and the public will have the opportunity to tour a research vessel that will map the bottom of Long Island Sound, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced. The vessel will be used as part of an effort to gather information and data on
Origin Energy advises that L-8 operator Apache Corporation has, on behalf of the joint venture, commenced drilling the Mbawa Prospect in Kenya. The Mbawa 1 exploration well spudded at 6:00 hours local time on 10 August 2012. Origin will only advise the market again when well operations have been com
By agreement with the partners in the Goliat licence, and due to the delay in the delivery of the production platform, Eni Norge has decided to postpone production start-up at the Goliat field until the third quarter of 2014. The Goliat field development is based on large turnkey contracts (EPC) for
Technicians from NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) working on the DART project (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis) became the first UnderwayCTD users to attain a cast depth of over 2,000m with a record-shattering 2,041m cast during a mooring service cruise on the M/V Bluefin in J
