KONGSBERG has signed a contract for supply of new Passive Sonar Processing Systems (PSPS) as part of the Sonar Suite Modification Project for the four Walrus class submarines of the Dutch Navy. The contract was made between the Dutch Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) and KONGSBERG, represented by
The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office’s (UKHO) celebrated World Hydrography Day 2011 at a reception held on board HMS President in London on June 22. The event was attended by Rt Hon Andrew Robathan, Parliamentary Under-secretary of State for Defence and Minister for Welfare and Veterans, Mike Penn
IHC Engineering Business (IHC EB) continues to deliver innovative equipment to the offshore industry and provide round the clock product… Subsea UK [mappress] Source: Subsea UK , June 30, 2011;
In 2011, PGS is looking for more unexpected and the unexplored targets in key producing areas of the North Sea with a new wave of GeoStreamer MultiClient 3D. Near-field exploration potential GeoStreamer® technology promises to unlock the excellent near-field exploration potential still offered by th
The AF Group has been awarded a Letter of Intent with Statoil, on behalf of Gassco as operator, regarding removal and recycling of the Norpipe H7-platform. The platform is located at the German continental shelf of the North Sea, and has been a part of the pipeline which exports gas to Europe. The L
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS , a wholly owned company of KONGSBERG, has acquired 100% of the shares in the Stavanger, Norway based Seagear AS. The acquisition, which completed today (30th June 2011), will see the entire Seagear team join forces with KOGT’s Seaflex Riser Technologies Business
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS has received consent to use the Island Constructor mobile facility for well intervention on Ekofisk 2/4 VA. The consent relates to well intervention on the eight 2/4 Victor Alpha injection wells. The activity has a planned duration of 30 days. Island Constructor is a we
Charles Hendry, Minister of State for Energy along with Iain Wright, MP for Hartlepool visited the JDR Cable Systems facility at Hartlepool Docks this week, as the company showcased its increasingly significant contribution to the renewable energy sector. JDR has supplied subsea cables for many land
Schlumberger announced the acquisition of the remaining equity shares from Frank Mohn AS in Framo Engineering AS—a privately owned Norwegian company specialized in the business of developing, manufacturing and selling products and services relating to multiphase pumps and subsea pump-systems, multip
Newly developed technologies and booming commodities prices are driving the emergence of deep seabed mining projects internationally, with… (wsws) [mappress] Source: wsws, June 29, 2011;
Seajacks UK Limited (Seajacks) announced it has entered into a contract with WindMW GmbH (WindMW) for the installation of foundations and turbines for the Meerwind Project, which will be located off the coast of Germany in the North Sea near the island Helgoland. Seajacks will be providing services
STATS Group, has successfully completed a 20 inch valve change-out on the Yanga platform, offshore the Republic of Congo. STATS were contracted by Halliburton, on behalf of Total E&P, to provide pipeline isolation to replace a launcher valve located downstream between the Yanga export and Sendji pro
LS Cable & System won a turn-key contract for a submarine cable project in the U.S. as the first in the cable industry of Korea. LS Cable & System announced on the 28th that the company had won a contract for a 35kV level submarine cable project from National Grid (a power grid operator […]
Hallin Marine, a Superior Energy Services company, has commenced a large-scale inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) project off the Malaysian peninsular. The contract centres on the oil rig Cendor MOPU which is undergoing an American Bureau of Shipping UWILD underwater survey for a second year i
