The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has revisited the final resting place of a Japanese midget submarine M24 as part of a program to preserve the Second World War wreck. Involved in the attack on Sydney Harbour which resulted in the sinking of accommdation ferry, HMAS Kuttabul, the location of the subma
Archer has been awarded a five-year contract by ConocoPhillips for the provision of mechanical wireline services for the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The contract was awarded to Archer following a tender process for ConocoPhillips’ well intervention services in Norway. Archer has provided wireline i
Royal Navy bomb disposal team detonated a WWII torpedo found during a routine seabed survey in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The torpedo is likely to have been one of those fired at HMS Royal Oak, as the battleship lay at anchor in Scapa Flow in 1939, Royal Navy wrote. The attack by the German U-boat U47 sank
The research vessel Neil Armstrong arrived to its home port for the first time at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) dock Wednesday, escorted by the WHOI coastal research vessel R/V Tioga, two Coast Guard boats and fireboats from neighboring towns. “What a wonderful day for Woods Hole,
Geophysical contractor TGS said it expects net revenues for the first quarter of 2016 to be approximately USD 64 million. This compares to net revenues of USD 172 million in the first quarter of 2015, which represents a decrease of close to 63 per cent. In addition to the undrawn revolving credit fa
PGS is set to start the acquisition of a new 4.400 sq. kilometers 3D GeoStreamer survey over the Aasta Hansteen area in the Norwegian Sea, in May 2016. The survey is planned to be completed in August 2016. Fast track data will be available four months after the final shot. This pre-funded multi-clie
Halliburton and Baker Hughes Incorporated have said they intend to ‘vigorously contest the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to block’ their pending merger. Namely, the DOJ filed a civil antitrust lawsuit on Wednesday to stop the merger between two of the world’s largest oilfield-services co
Independent fund management company DIF has awarded 8.2 Consulting AG with a contract to perform preliminary technical due diligence at the 288MW Meerwind Süd|Ost offshore wind farm. DIF asked 8.2 Consulting AG to focus on the analysis of the O&M strategy, the O&M budget estimation, the estimation o
A subsea technology spin-off from Norwegian firm Fuglesangs is working a new pump drive and coupling system, Hydromag, that could simplify how seabed boosting is performed. The system, being developed with support of Innovation Norway, National Oilwell Varco and Voith Turbo, could allegedly reduce t
SeaRoc Group has appointed Anthony Collingridge to the role of project manager at its UK office in Chichester, West Sussex, in preparation for the recently won contract to supply planning software and communications hardware to all of DONG Energy’s sites in the UK. SeaRoc will provide DONG with pers
Ulf Lindelöf, CEO of Waves4Power, spoke about his company’s latest achievement, the recently deployed WaveEL wave energy device at Runde wave energy test site off Norway, as well as the issues this emerging renewable energy sector is currently facing.
Searcher Seismic has announced the South Campeche Ultracube 3D seismic reprocessing project offshore Mexico. The seismic project, totaling approximately 17,700 km2, is a merge of three existing surveys, the Holok Alvardo 3D (2003), the Cequi 3D (2010) and the Boloi Norte-Balche-Xulum 3D (2003). Rach
National Grid Viking Link Ltd (NGVL) will be inviting local people to have their say on proposals for an electricity cable link between Denmark and Lincolnshire, with the launch of a six-week public consultation on Monday, April 11. Viking Link is a proposal to link Britain and Denmark’s electricity
Epic International, an offshore engineering company, has expanded into marine and subsea services for oil, gas and renewables. Namely, the Great Yarmouth-based firm has appointed Tonia Weldon as its new business development manager. Weldon, who has more than 25 years offshore industry experience, mo
