Tamares Telecom Ltd. is installing a third undersea cable connecting Israel and Cyprus. An additional undersea cable that will connect Israel with the world, should significantly improve competition and the telecoms market. With the third undersea cable, if the earnings mainly stay with the communic
INPEX CORPORATION announces that through its wholly owned subsidiary INPEX Alpha, Ltd., it has made the final investment decision on the Coniston oil field. Coniston is located in the Coniston Unit , which is the unitization area of parts of WA-35-L (excluding the Van Gogh Defined Area) and WA-44-R
Residents and businesses using du’s Internet services can expect slower speeds after two international undersea cables carrying… (khaleejtimes) [mappress] Source: khaleejtimes , December 27, 2011
Cairn Lanka Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cairn India Limited, has successfully completed the first phase of the exploration campaign in Sri Lanka Block SL-2007- 01-001. The exploration programme involved the acquisition, processing and interpretation of 1,753 sq km of 3D seismic data and a
The Libyan International Telecom Company (LITC) announced the activation of the new enhanced submarine cable system connecting Libya and Italy. System uses the newest technologies to provide large capacities reaching 40Gbps instead of the old system (2.5 Gbps). The activation of this system will hel
On or about November 7, 2011, a hydrocarbon release occurred in the vicinity of a development well being drilled by Chevron Corporation off the coast of Rio de Janeiro in the Frade field with a semisubmersible drilling rig, the SEDCO 706, owned by a subsidiary of Transocean Ltd. The incident involve
SNEPCo confirmed the oil leak from the Bonga facility off the coast of Nigeria has largely dispersed. The news comes five days after less than 40,000 barrels of oil leaked during a routine operation to transfer of oil from Bonga’s floating production, storage and offtake (FPSO) vessel to an oil tank
Repsol Chairman, Antonio Brufau, Eni Chairman, Paolo Scaroni, and the Venezuelan Minister of Popular Power for Oil and Mining Rafael Ramírez in Caracas signed the natural gas supply agreement that will allow the development of the vast hydrocarbons reserves of the Perla field. The Perla super-giant
Tidal energy could be used to power homes in Jersey, Guernsey and Sark in the next 20 years. BBC [mappress] Source: BBC , December 25, 2011
CNOOC stopped the production at the PY30-1 and HZ21-1 platforms after finding the leak at the Zhuhai terminal in southern China. Outages at two gas platforms may last for weeks following a leak in a subsea pipeline earlier this week, media official from CNOOC stated. An official said: “It shouldn’t
At the request of Innogy Nordsee 1 GmbH, Gardline Geosciences Limited performed a marine soil investigation for the proposed offshore wind farm Innogy Nordsee 1 which is located off the German coastline and 40 km to the north of the island of Juist. The projected area of the proposed site was 145.6k
National Grid announces that the 2,000-megawatt subsea power cable between the British and French energy markets will run at half of its capacity between March 1 and roughly June 30, 2012 for valve replacing work. 2012 outage schedule demonstrates that the interconnector’s capability will also be re
Sumitomo Corporation and J-Power Systems Corporation have won a joint contract to install submarine power cables between the main island of Taiwan and the Penghu Islands, located about 60 km west off the southwestern coast of the main island. This is a full turnkey project worth about 32 billion yen
Moorings Systems has completed the installation of a flexible export flowline to transfer water to a DP tanker at the BP Valhall platform complex in the Norwegian North Sea. The project involved installation of 1,160 metres, 6” flexible flowline, front end engineering, mobilisation of equipment, and
