On 22 June 2012, Braveheart Shipping baptized its Javelin 22.22 “Guardian”. Guardian is the first Javelin built and developed by Javelin International by order of Braveheart Shipping. With this ship, especially being used for survey activities, Braveheart is further expanding its fleet and consequen
On 24 June, the Chinese manned deep-sea submersible Jiaolong accomplished its goal to dive 7,000 meters below the sea, thestatesman.net reported. The submersible succeeded in diving 7,015 meters below sea level during its fourth dive into the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. Now China has the ab
Dolphin Geophysical AS has received a Letter of Intent from Statoil for the acquisition of a 5500 km2 survey offshore Tanzania. The survey will be acquired by one of our high capacity 3D seismic vessels commencing in the fourth quarter of 2012. CEO Atle Jacobsen, commented “This marks Dolphin’s entr
On 10 July, at 06.00 hours, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) started acquiring seismic data in the Nordland IV and V areas. The work is planned to last for one month. The Storting (Norwegian Parliament) has tasked the NPD with mapping the seabed to gain knowledge regarding potential petrole
Norwegian Mapping Authority Hydrographic Service (NHS) has announced that they are seeking for a company to execute hydrographic services. The project includes seabed surveying services in the Barents Sea, under the direction of the MOREANO programme. The total value of the tender is estimated betwe
Jersey Electricity announces that the energy bills will rise in the future because of the malfunction of its two underwater cables. At the end of April there was an electrical fault which needs to be replaced on a section of the Channel Islands grid between Guernsey and Jersey. According to BBC News
As reported by ABC News, Inpex, an energy giant, in preparation for a dredging project in Darwin Harbour, will survey the harbour floor. Starting this week the survey will commence. Divers, survey boats as well as barges will begin the project in the channel area. Inpex needs the survey data to get
According to The Trinidad Express, The Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) is trying to find a solution to its submarine cable failure between Trinidad and Tobago. T&TEC’s General Manager Kelvin Ramsook stated that a public tender was approved for the number two submarine cable. This
Technip was awarded by Apache Energy Ltd a subsea installation contract worth approximately $60 million (about €50 million) for the Balnaves oil field development, located in the Carnarvon Basin, offshore North Western Australia, at a water depth of approximately 135 meters. The contract includes th
World Marine Offshore announces that it has been awarded one boat contract by Vattenfall, one of the Major Energy suppliers in Northen Europe, to provide Crew Transfer Vessels (CTV) to DanTysk Windpark. The Contract has been awarded for 19 Months with possibility for extension. Vattenfall has chosen
World Marine Offshore announces that it has been awarded one boat contract by Vattenfall, one of the Major Energy suppliers in Northen Europe, to provide Crew Transfer Vessels (CTV) to DanTysk Windpark. The Contract has been awarded for 19 Months with possibility for extension. Vattenfall has chosen
NOC scientist, Dr Henry Ruhl, is leading an expedition to the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, some 300 miles southwest of Lands End. He will be looking at how the shape of deep ocean floor and climate influence deep sea ecology, and he intends to do this by making a very large photographic map of the seafl
PTTEP announces today (July 9,2012 )that the second wellhead platform of Vietnam 16-1 project has been successfully installed, and this is expected to increase its capacity to about 55,000 bpd by the fourth quarter this year. Mr. Tevin Vongvanich, the President and CEO of PTT Exploration and Product
Reef Subsea AS announced today that its subsidiary company, Reef Subsea Power & Umbilical Ltd. with offices in Stockton on Tees and Aberdeen, has been awarded a major contract with Gwynt y Mor Offshore Wind Farm Limited, worth approximately £40m (61.9 million USD). It will see Reef Subsea Power & Um