Aberdeen-based Veripos, the leading supplier of GNSS positioning services to the world offshore industry, has appointed Angus Scott as Regional Manager of its Europe, Africa and Middle East (EAME) division. Reporting to company Managing Director Walter Steedman, he will be responsible for continued
Today, the plan for development and operation (PDO) of Atla was approved by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. This will be the first field development Det norske participates in. It represents Det norske´s debut, and the first out of many to come over the next few years. The plan for development
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced changes to its Executive Leadership Team. Bill Schumann, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has chosen to retire from FMC Technologies after 30 years of service with the Company, effective August 31, 2012. In addition, he will step down as Chief Fi
SeeByte, the global leader in creating smart software technology for unmanned systems, and VideoRay the world leader in Inspection Class-ROV technology, have announced their decision to enter a partnership with the aim of developing solutions to improve value to their customers. The decision follows
British tidal energy company, Marine Current Turbines Ltd, announces that Siemens is increasing its share in the company to 45%. “With this increase in its stake, Siemens is strengthening its activities in ocean power generation. We will actively shape the commercialization process of innovative mar
The Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean concluded a record-setting year, and gave credit for some of its success to KCF Technologies Smart Tether – an innovative, very simple to use, non-acoustic navigation system that offers real-time GPS positioning for remotely operated underwater vehicles, along w
NTT Communications Corporation announced that following the world’s first successful trial of 100 gigabit per second (Gbps) optical transmission on its PC-1 transpacific submarine cable system, which was announced in October, the company has confirmed the commercial viability of digital coherent tra
Octio will do a pilot project to assess the permanent monitoring of CO2 storage under the seabed for CLIMIT. CLIMIT is a program to encourage commercial development of technology for capturing and storing CO2; administered jointly by Gassnova and the Norwegian Research Council. When CO2 is stored un
Mike Caraher is a surveyor with 13 years experience, latterly working at director level in the offshore and coastal surveying environment. Mike has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with Osiris Projects, originally working on a variety of coastal survey projects as a specialist sub-contractor. Os
BPZ Energy, an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, announced receipt of the approval to acquire 3-D Seismic Data in Offshore Block Z-1 and also provided financial and operational results for the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2011. For three months ended Sep
The huge Australian offshore gas project Ichthys will cost more than the anticipated total of $30 billion, the head of French oil major Total said on Thursday. “It will cost a little more than expected for environmental reasons… We had originally said $30 billion,” Total Chief Executive Christophe d
Three times since 1931, a Washington state electric cooperative has overhauled a three-quarter of a mile submarine cable serving island cons… (ECT) [mappress] Source: ECT, November 03, 2011;
With LoFS 14 now completed on schedule and without incident this closes another successful year of operating the portable source system for BP Norge AS, operator of the Valhall Field. LoFS 14 was WGP’s third operational survey of the Valhall field utilising the source sub-arrays of Thalassa Energy S
McDermott International, Inc. announced that one of its subsidiaries has won an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (“EPCI”) project for Oil and National Gas Corporation Ltd.’s (“ONGC”) Cluster 7 Development Program. The value of this award will be included in McDermott’s third q
