Cameron has received a contract valued at approximately $200 million from ConocoPhillips to provide equipment and services on two new platforms in the Greater Ekofisk Area Development offshore Norway. The contract is subject to Government approval of the Plan for Development and Operations (PDO) for
IHC Merwede, a Dutch supplier of ships and equipment for dredging, offshore and mining activities, and DEME, a Belgian dredging, environmental and marine construction group, will enter into a joint venture for deep-sea mining activities. Under their cooperative agreement, IHC Merwede will be respons
Huawei Marine Networks Co. Ltd. announced that it has won the bidding for the BDM (Batam-Dumai-Melaka) submarine cable project and will provide the end-to-end turnkey submarine system solution. The BDM project will complete a cable system between Melaka, Malaysia and Dumai & Batam, Indonesia by Q4 o
Technip was awarded by GDF SUEZ an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract, worth approximately €45 million, for the Gjøa field development located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. This contract covers: * engineering and fabrication of two smoothbore gas export rise
Power conversion specialist Converteam has announced that it has been selected to supply major elements of electrical equipment for a 1MW tidal turbine known as HS1000. The contract awarded by Hammerfest Strøm UK Ltd includes the subsea generator and the shore based systems including a power convert
FoundOcean has been awarded the offshore grouting contract by SBM Offshore for the MOPUstor Phase 2 installation in the Yme Oil Field, North Sea. Grouting equipment has been mobilised and set up on the work vessel, and a suitable work window is awaited prior to mobilisation of the 12-man crew. The M
Movistar has launched an undersea fibre-optic cable linking the Canary Islands with the Peninsula… (telecompaper) [mappress] Source: telecompaper ,March 03, 2011;
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks awarded EGS the landing site visits, inshore survey and offshore geophysical survey of the Seychelles East African Submarine cable system linking Port Victoria in the Seychelles to Dar es Salam in Tanzania . The SEAS system is the first fiber optic telecommunication
Latest energy report – Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) in the Energy Market 2011-2021 – examines in depth one of the most powerful and exciting areas in the offshore oil and gas industry; an industry which is seeing a profound movement towards deep sea devel
McDermott International, Inc. , announced that certain of its subsidiaries in the Middle East and Caspian region were recently awarded a number of contracts for offshore engineering and construction projects ranging from installation, through to full EPCI work, as part of our $2 billion of fourth qu
Cal Dive International, Inc. reported a net loss for fiscal 2010 of $315.8 million and $3.47 per diluted share. This compares to net income of $76.6 million and $.81 per diluted share for fiscal 2009. The 2010 net loss includes $302.5 million ($3.32 per diluted share) in non-cash impairment charges
The Bureau of Offshore Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement has approved the first permit to restart deepwater drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico since the Macondo spill incident, referencing availability of containment solutions like the Helix Fast Response System as a deciding fact
Infinera has been selected by MedNautilus to upgrade its subsea network for the speed of deployment and scalability of the Infinera submarine solution. MedNautilus, the Mediterranean operations of the Telecom Italia Sparkle Group and the first and only protected submarine ring-configured backbone in
EastPort UK today announced the outer harbour had been selected by A2Sea as the reloading base for the installation of wind turbines on the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm. Danish headquartered A2Sea A/S, whose main shareholders are DONG Energy and Siemens, is the most experienced installation c
