Popular Kongsberg Maritime demo boat comes to Southampton. The Kongsberg Maritime stand (N1) and specially equipped demo boat will feature a range of new and leading survey systems during the forthcoming Ocean Business technology exhibition and training forum, which takes place at the National Ocean
Statoil and KazMunayGas have signed the Heads of Agreement (HoA) on the Abay block in the Kazakhstani sector of the Caspian Sea. Under the HoA, the parties plan to conduct evaluation of the hydrocarbon potential of the “Abay” block in the Northern Caspian Sea. Statoil and KazMunayGas will jointly es
Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco) has appointed Ellen Sandra Bratland as new Chief Operating Officer. Bratland has been working for Noreco since 2008 and comes from the position as Asset Manager for Noreco’s field developments in Norway and UK. Bratland holds a M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering f
OceanServer has been awarded a contract from CIDCO (Centre interdisciplinaire de développement en cartographie des océans /Interdisciplinary Centre for the Development of Ocean Mapping) for an Iver2 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). CIDCO has a long history of facilitating new mapping technologie
Further to the announcement made on 16 March 2011, Lansdowne Oil & Gas plc, announces it has signed a contract with Polarcus Limited (“Polarcus”) for the acquisition of 3D seismic surveys over the Rosscarbery, Amergin and Midleton Prospects in the North Celtic Sea, offshore Ireland, covering an aggr
Under the charter contract with Centrica Energy Upstream, the charter is automatically extended by six months unless notice is given six months prior to the expiration of the contracted period. The expiration of the currently contracted period was September 28, 2011, and the charter for FPSO Sevan H
Aker Solutions has been awarded a letter of intent (LOI) by Statoil for the engineering, procurement and construction of a subsea production system for the Fossekall-Dompap project on the Norwegian continental shelf. Aker Solutions estimates the contract value to be approximately NOK 1 billion. Scop
GC Rieber Shipping has entered into a three-year charter agreement with the UK Ministry of Defence (“MoD”) for the vessel “Polarbjørn”. The contract commences medio April 2011 and expires in March 2014. The contract with MoD will in combination with the recently announced charter agreement for the C
Converteam announces today the signing of an agreement with GE pursuant to which the financial Converteam shareholders commit to sell their shares to GE. Pierre Bastid and Florent Battistella will retain a significant shareholding in Converteam after the closing of the transaction. This agreement is
Aker Solutions has completed loading eight subsea templates destined for Eni Norge’s Goliat project in the Barents Sea… (offshore) [mappress] Source: offshore , March 30, 2011;
Siem Offshore Inc. announces that it will enter into the business for submarine cable installation, repair and maintenance projects. The Company has identified the installation of submarine cables and associated services to be an emerging growing market, both with respect to field and landfall cable
TGS announces that it will conduct extensive reprocessing of over 13,550 km of 2D multi-client seismic data located in waters off the Faroe Islands. This project, designated Offshore Faroe Reprocessing 2011, will extend to the UK/Faroe border. The data for the reprocessing has been made available by
This will be the year Statoil is planning and realising several fast-track developments on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). Two new projects are being launched these days, namely Gamma/Harepus and Snorre B template. A plan for development and operation (PDO) of Gamma/Harepus is to be submitted
New Zealand marine electronics company, Electronic Navigation Ltd (ENL) has been named as a finalist at the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards in the Dell Innovative Hardware Product category for their Wide Angle Sonar Seafloor Profiler (WASSP). Originally established in 1993 the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards
