Incoming Chief Executive of RWE, Peter Terium, said that substantial delays in Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm connection to the grid jeopardize the project’s profitability. Mr. Terium told the weekly magazine Der Spiegel that RWE is inviting the German Government to discuss possible compensation add
Total announced the signature of a production sharing contract with the Kenyan government for Block L22, which it will operate with a 100% interest. Covering an area of more than 10,000 square kilometers, the exploration license is located offshore the Lamu Archipelago in water depths of between 2,0
Deepwater Wind has agreed to add fiber optic cables to their submarine power cable between Block Island and Narragansett, the Block Island Times writes. Providence based wind energy company is planning to install 5 turbines southeast of Block Island. The wind farm will generate over 100,000 megawatt
Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Protector returns home to Portsmouth on Wednesday (June 27) from her maiden deployment to the frozen continent of Antarctica. The 5,000-tonne ice-breaker spent most of her seven months away surveying and patrolling the Antarctic Peninsula. In her first deployment since
InterMoor, an Acteon company, has completed the installation of the Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP) Conductors for the artificial lift manifold as part of the Shell BC-10 Phase 2 project, announced InterMoor Global President Tom Fulton. InterMoor was responsible for the fabrication and installatio
Aker Solutions has been awarded a frame agreement by ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Norway AS. Contract value is undisclosed. The frame agreement covers engineering, procurement, construction and installation for ExxonMobil’s operated assets on the Norwegian continental shelf. The fixed contr
Halfway June APE Holland started on the North Sea near the German island of Borkum with a special offshore project, vibrating 30 steel piles (monopiles) on which 30 windmills will be installed. The piles will be driven with the Super Quad Kong (SQK), an innovative and modular vibratory driver/extrac
Saturday the 9th of June, Holland Shipyards successfully delivered a 32 persons accommodation module to Keppel Verolme. The accommodation module was built under high QA/QC demands and a stringent deadline, which were both met by the yard. This accommodation will be placed on the Transformer Substati
Oi’s international subsidiary – GlobeNet – a leading provider of submarine capacity, announces that it is extending its subsea network to Colombia, thus creating an express route from its future landing on Colombia’s Atlantic coast to Miami, Florida – USA. As a direct extension from its existing sub
Ciena® Corporation, the network specialist, toay announced that the Japan-U.S. Cable Network is upgrading its trans-Pacific submarine network, which spans close to 23,000 kilometers from the U.S. to Japan, with Ciena’s market-leading coherent 100 Gigabits per second (100G) technology. Expected to be
Octanex N.L., through its wholly owned subsidiary Octanex NZ Limited, holds a 35% participating interest in each of PEP 51906 and PEP 53537, with OMV holding the remaining 65% participating interest in the permits. OMV acquired its interest in PEP 51906 through a farmin to Octanex’s then 100% intere
Axial seamount, 480 kilometers (300 miles) off the coast of northern Oregon, is one of the best-studied underwater volcanoes in the world. For 30 years, researchers have explored this volcano using submersibles and monitored its activity using pressure sensors, tilt meters, temperature probes, and s
Star Information Systems (SIS), an industry leader in the supply of software and services for technical ship and rig management, has successfully completed the installation of its Star Information & Planning System (Star IPS) across Solstad Offshore’s fleet of 50 high-specification vessels. Solstad,
Dolphin Geophysical in co-operation with Searcher Seismic are about to commence acquisition of 2,000 km2 of high-resolution 3D Multi-Client data over open acreage in the Barents Sea using Dolphin’s 12 streamer high capacity 3D seismic vessel, Polar Duke. The blocks and data coverage were nominated a
