Contango Oil & Gas Company announced that it has drilled a successful exploratory well at its Swimmy prospect located Offshore Gulf of Mexico on Vermilion block 170. The Company’s independent third party engineer estimates this well to have 8/8ths proved reserves of 48 billion cubic feet of natural
Technip was awarded an engineering services contract by ZADCO* for the UZ 750 project, one of the major offshore field development projects in the United Arab Emirates. The project aims at increasing by 2015 the oil production of the Upper Zakum field (located in the Gulf, 84 kilometers offshore Abu
Infinera has named Deryck Robinson Vice President of Subsea Sales, with responsibility for leading Infinera’s subsea sales activities globally. Mr. Robinson will provide leadership for a dedicated team focused on expanding Infinera business in the large and growing subsea segment of the networking m
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is again teaming with French authorities to renew the international search for the deep-sea wreck site of Air France Flight 447 and to retrieve the flight recorders from the Airbus A 330. WHOI will lead the search from late March to July 2011 under the
The rhetoric about domestic oil drilling reached a fever pitch in Washington this week with the Obama administration touting the approval of more Gulf deepwater drilling permits and Republicans countering that the pace of permitting is still too slow. The stakes are high for both sides of the issue,
Iceland is moving forward with plans to construct what would be the world’s longest undersea electricity cable, albeit at glacial pace… (icis) [mappress] Source: icis, March 28, 2011
Investigations are being launched into how three dolphins died earlier this month during a Navy training exercise along the San Diego coast… (kdvr) [mappress] Source:kdvr , March 28, 2011;
The long-awaited drillship Deepwater Champion finally passed through the Bosporus on Friday en route to the Black Sea province of Samsun… (todayszaman) [mappress] Source: todayszaman, March 28, 2011;
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) approved a sixth deepwater drilling permit on March 25 that… (marinelink) [mappress] Source: marinelink, March 28, 2011;
Dominion Diving Ltd has recently been awarded a contract for the remaining subsea work which is scheduled this summer to complete the natural gas development led by Encana –The Deep Panuke Project. For the duration of approximately two weeks, Dominion Diving will be working with Tideway- a Dutch off
Shell and KROHNE signed an agreement to commercialize a new multiphase flowmeter based on the Magnetic Resonance principle for oil and gas field installations. The agreement comprises the manufacturing, marketing and sales of the new meter which was developed through an R&D collaboration between She
Plains Exploration & Production Company announces it continues to evaluate alternatives to separate its deepwater and onshore businesses, which include separately capitalizing its deepwater business through a joint venture or outside capital and then either spinning-off or divesting these assets. Ja
Dominion Diving has been awarded the contract by Dexter Construction to provide underwater diving services to install a new Marine Railway for Shelburne Shipyard. Dominion Diving will be involved with the methodology reviews, procurement and installation of the subsea assets for the project. The sub
Nexans, a worldwide leading expert in the cable industry, has been awarded an approximately 18 million euros contract by Statoil to design, engineer and manufacture the static and dynamic subsea umbilicals that will play a vital role in the tie back system connecting the new Gygrid field development
