E. ON contracted Fugro Consult GmbH to run a geotechnical exploration for offshore wind farm “Arkona-Becken Südost”, which E.ON is planning in the Baltic Sea. Work which took place in the summer and early fall of this year , has now been completed in water depths of approximately 22 to 37 m. Fugro u
A coalition of Pacific Civil Society organizations has called for a slow down in authorization of deep seabed mining in the Pacific Region. Procedures taken by numerous governments to legitimize and fast-track experimental seabed mining exploration as a development opportunity caused concerns among
UK-based specialist pipe measurement technology company Optical Metrology Services (OMS) Ltd has successfully completed an on-site internal… SubseaUK [mappress] Source: SubseaUK , December 02, 2011; Image: OMS
Emerald Networks, Inc., a subsea cable system owner/operator that provides low latency transatlantic capacity to the wholesale market, announces that the Group is to install, for completion by the Spring of 2013, the highest capacity, low latency, transatlantic submarine cable system in order to mee
MEO Australia Limited advises that it has received formal notification from Eni Australia Ltd (Eni) that it has committed to the acquisition of the Blackwood 3D seismic survey. The notification received is in accordance with the NT/P68 Farm-in Agreement, detailed in MEO’s ASX and Media release of 18
Mitsubishi Corporation , through its wholly owned special purpose company and its UK based subsidiary, has acquired a 50% share of the Walney 1 offshore transmission assets. The acquisition was made from Macquarie Capital Group Limited (UK Branch) , and represents the first time for a Japanese compa
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has signed a global alliance agreement with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation to provide subsea systems and life-of-field services for their worldwide subsea development projects. In 1999, FMC supplied equipment for Anadarko’s first subsea project, North Garnet,
Chevron Brasil Upstream Frade Ltda announced it has been ordered by Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) to shut in one of its 11 production wells and four produced water injection wells at its off-shore Frade joint-venture Floating Production-Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility. The move by
Technip announced that it has completed the acquisition of Global Industries, Ltd . The shareholders of Global Industries approved the merger at a special shareholders meeting held on November 30, 2011 and will receive US$8.00 per share in cash. Global Industries has become an indirect, wholly-owned
Eni announces the purchase of a 32.5% stake in the Evans Shoal gas field in the Timor Sea, Australia. The field is located offshore in the NT/P48 exploration permit in the north Bonaparte Basin, around 300km northwest of Darwin, where there is an existing LNG plant precinct. The undeveloped Evans Sh
Global Industries, Ltd. announced that, at a special meeting held in Houston, Texas, its shareholders voted to approve the proposed merger of an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Technip S.A. with and into Global Industries, as well as other proposals related to the merger. Global Industries and
Cook Island’s approach to deep sea mining should be adopted by other Pacific nations, says a Cook Islands environmental lawyer and … (radioaustralia) [mappress] Source: Radio Australia , December 01, 2011;
ShawCor Ltd. announced that its pipecoating division, Bredero Shaw, has received a contract with a value in excess of US$45 million from Hyundai Heavy Industries to provide corrosion protection and concrete weight coating for the Barzan pipeline project in the Qatari sector of the Arabian Gulf. The
MMT has been contracted by Nexans Norway AS to carry out a pre-engineering marine survey of an 80 m wide corridor between Qalet Marku in Malta and Marina di Ragusa in Sicily. The survey operation will be conducted by MMT survey vessel Franklin, (length 56 meters). M/V Franklin is fully equipped to p
