The founder of the Virgin group of companies, Sir Richard Branson, announces plans to launch his own deep-sea project this summer, Zee News reported. He plans to conduct a solo submarine journey to the bottom of the sea at the Puerto Rico Trench in the Atlantic Ocean. Sir Richard hopes to find vario
Dolphin Geophysical have signed a further Agreement with the AGC Authorities to acquire additional 2D Multi-Client survey over recently designated Deep-Water blocks soon to be offered to industry for licensing. These new long-offset 2D data will form part of the ongoing NWAAM project commenced last
Bootle-based commercial diving and engineering specialist, Hughes Sub Surface Engineering, announces the successful completion of their latest project assisting the main contractor successfully complete the shore landing of the export cable from the London Array Wind Farm presently under constructio
Octanex N.L. has been advised by Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd (Shell) that it has completed acquisition of the new Tortilla 2D seismic survey in the WA-385-P permit. The Tortilla survey is a relatively small 783 km 2D marine seismic survey that fulfils the final work commitment for the WA-3
NKT Flexibles announced that it has become a part of National Oilwell Varco (NOV). With a proven record of reliability, innovation and life of field preservation, NKT Flexibles has supplied commercial flexible pipe systems since 1968. Today, the company offers a full range of tailored solutions base
Cue Energy Resources Limited announces that acquisition of the Maari 3D seismic survey has commenced in permits PMP 38160 and PEP 51313 in the offshore Taranaki Basin of New Zealand. The survey comprises 254 sq km of seismic data and is being recorded with the survey vessel Polarcus Alima. The surve
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced that its subsidiary, Teledyne DALSA, Inc., increased its ownership interest in the parent company of Optech Incorporated from 19 percent to 51 percent. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario, Optech is an internatio
Wave energy developer, Carnegie Wave Energy Limited, advises that the CETO 4 unit is awaiting deployment on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. The deployment has been delayed and is now awaiting the necessary weather window to ensure a safe installation. Carnegie will provide a further update after
InterMoor, an Acteon company, has completed a 27-month contract for AGR on their multi-client exploration drilling project off the Falkland Islands. The campaign kicked off early 2010 with the mobilization of Diamond Drilling’s Ocean Guardian semisubmersible from Invergordon, UK, and the 164-day rou
Hydroid, Inc., a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime and the leading manufacturer of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), today announced that it has shipped four REMUS 100 systems to the Japanese Ministry of Defense (MOD). The AUVs will be used for mine countermeasure operations as well as investiga
Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Limited has secured a major contract to begin the next stage of offshore construction off the North Wales coast. In a £multi-million deal with Seaway Heavy Lifting Limited of Cyprus, the heavy lift vessel, ‘Stanislav Yudin’ will operate in Liverpool Bay between April a
Following confirmation on Saturday morning (31 March) that the flare on the Elgin Platform has extinguished itself, Total is actively preparing operations to regain control of the leaking well. With respect to stopping the leak, Total has launched two main actions which are progressing in parallel.
Royal Navy and Army bomb disposal experts have successfully removed the remnants of a V2 rocket which was submerged off the English coast. A 4-feet-long section of the German World War 2 weapon was pulled from mudflats at low tide on the River Stour between Harwich and Felixstowe. The six-man Navy t
Centrica Renewables Energy Ltd has contracted Global Marine Energy Ltd., the largest independent provider of subsea power cable installation, maintenance and related engineering services worldwide, to provide the cable landing works related to the west export nearshore cable at the Lincs Offshore wi
