Apply Sørco announced it has entered into an agreement with Subsea Technology Group (STG) to acquire Altra Energy Ltd. (Altra). Altra has its main competence within FEED (Front End Engineering & Design), process engineering and operations support. The company currently engages over 60 people and is
SeaBird Exploration PLC informs the following new contracts awarded in the 2D and 3D shallow water as set out below; Hawk Explorer has been awarded a short survey in direct continuation from the current employment in West Africa where the vessel will be employed until end May / early June 2011. Nort
A search team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has located the wreckage of Air France Flight 447 some 3,900 meters, or nearly 2.5 miles, below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil’s northeastern coast. The team left the port of Suape, Brazil, aboard the vessel Alucia on
In early March it was declared that the world leading NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS) has now achieved full operating capability. This is great news and the culmination of a 20 year project in which Northumberland-based IHC Engineering Business (IHC EB) has played a pivotal role with the design
TGS announces that it has signed a Letter of Intent with Dolphin Geophysical AS to charter the M/V Polar Duke for 3D multi-client projects in Europe during the 2011 summer season. The charter will begin in May 2011 and will last for a minimum of 3 months. The agreement also provides an option for TG
Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF) has entered into agreement with NOR’s other shareholder, Nortrans Invest Pte. Ltd for the purchase of their 40,9% ownership share in NOR. SOFF will, after the transaction, own 100% of the share capital in NOR. The transaction is estimated to be completed April 14th 2011,
With the Navy halfway through its first year of buying two submarines a year, the Government Accountability Office recently published an ass… (courant) [mappress] Source: courant , April 06, 2011;
Polarcus Limited announces that the Company has received a Letter of Intent for a 550 square kilometer 3D seismic acquisition project West of Shetlands, offshore United Kingdom. The project, subject to the execution of a service contract, will commence in August 2011 and is expected to run for appro
UTEC Survey has successfully completed a systems acceptance test of a sub-bottom profiles module for the GAVIA AUV. The addition of the Teledyne Benthos Chirp III gives the AUV the capability to do pre-engineering surveys for subsea pipelines, umbilical, and cable routes. The GAVIA AUV’s design allo
ConocoPhillips recently awarded Vector International a contract for the Jasmine Development Project. The awarded package includes over 2,500 Techlok clamp connectors of all different sizes. The Jasmine field is located in the UK central North Sea and is one of the UK’s largest discoveries since the
BAE Systems has completed the acquisition of the outstanding equity of privately owned Fairchild Imaging, Inc. The proposed acquisition was announced January 21, 2011. Fairchild Imaging designs and manufactures solid-state electronic imaging components, cameras, and systems. These components have po
SeaBird Exploration PLC announces that an agreement has been reached with Chevron North Sea Limited (on behalf of itself and the other Rosebank co-venturers: Statoil (U.K.) Ltd., OMV (U.K.) Ltd., and DONG E&P (U.K.) Ltd) related to the earlier announced award of the Rosebank 2 survey. SeaBird has be
Following the successful association between international oilfield services companies, Expro, and China Oilfield Services (COSL) in the form of a China based joint venture, Husky Oil China Ltd has awarded the joint venture with a subsea and well testing contract worth in excess of $25million. These
MMT and NetSurvey have recently merged after 6 years cooperation on various hydrographic survey assignments. The goal is to benefit from synergy effects and to jointly provide high-resolution surveys. NetSurvey will bring strong technical capabilities in the field of multibeam expertise to the MMT G
