Tap Oil Limited (Tap) announces that the Final Investment Decision (FID) has been reached on the Manora Oil Development, located in the Gulf of Thailand. Tap now holds a 30% direct interest in Concession G1/48 through its subsidiary Tap Energy (Thailand) Pty Ltd, which includes the Manora oil field,
Scuba-diver scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, with support teams from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, and Washington Sea Grant, are returning to the mouth of Washington’s Elwha River this week to explore and catalogue the effect of released sediment
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) will take a 20 percent shareholding in Chatham Rock Phosphate and assume a seat on the board, in a world-first for the undersea mining industry. It is the first time a major dredging company has taken a substantial equity position in an undersea mining proj
Technip was awarded by Ithaca Energy (UK) Ltd an EPIC subsea contract for the Greater Stella Area (GSA) development, located 280 kilometers East-Southeast of Aberdeen, Scotland at a water depth of approximately 90 meters. Ithaca Energy (UK) Ltd is developing the GSA, centred on the Stella and Harrie
Wind turbine installation projects will face greater competition from oil and gas projects for chartering specialist vessels. Offshore wind farm developers in Europe and their contractors for engineering procurement, construction and installation are likely to struggle to secure specialist tonnage i
Finnish renewable technology developer, Wello Ltd, has successfully installed the Penguin wave energy converter (WEC) to Orkney waters, having chosen Fendercare Marine, part of James Fisher and Sons plc, as one of its key partners for the project. The Penguin wave energy converter is now floating an
For the third year in a row, with the help of the Captain Morgan brand, a team of leading U.S. archaeologists returned to the mouth of the Chagres River in Panama in search of real-life buccaneer Captain Henry Morgan’s lost fleet. “Morgan was one of the most infamous privateers of all time, so for m
Vattenfall, Swedish power company, will see its DanTysk offshore wind farm connected to the Germany’s power grid with the delay of up to five months, reports Boomberg. Siemens spokesman Torsten Wolf stated the link is planned to be completed by the spring 2014 even though it was planned to be ready
Zamtel, Zambia’s only total telecom solution service provider, has completed its connection to two submarine cables, the West Africa Cable System (WACS) and Sat-3, through Telecom Namibia. According to PC Advisor, Zamtel now has the capabilities to deliver 600Mbps of Internet to its customers. The Z
Searcher Seismic completes the acquisition of the Duvalia 2D Seismic Survey in Carnarvon Basin, Australia. The Duvalia Survey comprises approximately 3,302km of new, long-offset 2D seismic data. The survey provides coverage over 2012 Federal Acreage Releas blocks W12-10 and W12-11. The presence of a
Fairfield Energy confirms that an ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) survey carried out following repairs to the company operated Osprey subsea manifold has identified the need for further repairs before operations at Osprey can resume. As it will take some time to source the equipment required to comp
Kreuz Holdings Limited, a subsea service provider for the oil and gas industry, announced that it has won a contract worth approximately US$13 million from a leading offshore company in the oil and gas business to provide subsea installation services in Southeast Asia. The work is scheduled to comme
The Bermuda National Museum is conducting salvage operations of the naval warship Warwick that was hit by a hurricane in October 1619 and driven into the rocky shore of the Bermuda. According to maritime-executive.com, in 1969 Mendel Peterson, a famous Bermuda shipwreck hunter, located the remains o
According to CBCNews, the federal government has on Tuesday sent out a tender for survey work of a warship wreck off Sambro Island, near Halifax. Namely, the First World War ship, S.S. City of Vienna, is considered to be a threat because there is up to 10,000 munitions in the site where it sank almo
