Wood Group has secured a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the Woodside-operated proposed Browse floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) Development. Under a new 12-month contract awarded by Shell, Wood Group Kenny (WGK) will carry out flow assurance and process integration studies
Atlantis Resources and ScottishPower Renewables are teaming up to a develop a joint portfolio of projects for the fast growing tidal energy sector. Atlantis’ Scottish project development vehicle, Tidal Power Scotland Ltd (TPSL), will acquire ScottishPower Renewables’ (SPR) portfolio of tidal project
EGL (Eidesvik Ghana Ltd) has been established with office in Takoradi, which is the operational centre for the oil industry in Ghana. The establishment of EGL was done in collaboration with Ghanaian partners as a platform to serve the oil industry in Ghana and West Africa. The first task of EGL is t
Ocean energy company, BioPower Systems (BPS), has set up its 250kW bioWAVE pilot demonstration unit off the coast near Port Fairy, Victoria. The $21-million project has been in development by BPS for three years, with $11 million funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and $5 mil
GKinetic Energy has launched its OC1 tidal energy device following the completion of two month trial at Limerick Docks, Ireland. The launched pilot device is a 15 kW river unit capable of powering small communities from natural river flow. However, commercial deployment is expected to lead to larger
The Ramform Titan working offshore Myanmar, in the Bay of Bengal, is towing ‘the industry’s first ever’ single vessel 18-streamer seismic operation. According to Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), over a mile across, this is the first time the company has deployed 18 streamers, and also achieved the wide
BioPower Systems (BPS) has deployed its 250 kW bioWAVE pilot demonstration wave energy unit off Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia. The bioWAVE was deployed by a crane-equipped ship, which transported the device to the site and lowered it into the water. The structure was angled slightly, piercing the
The UK processing and multi-client operations of Dolphin Geophysical Ltd continue to operate as normal, despite the Norwegian entities of Dolphin Group ASA together with its subsidiary Dolphin Geophysical AS having filed for bankruptcy on Monday 14 December. The UK entity Dolphin Geophysical Ltd is
Polarcus has secured a memorandum of understanding (MOU) from an undisclosed client for a 3D marine seismic project in South America, the Oslo-listed company informed on Wednesday. According to Polarcus, the project is scheduled to start in the first quarter 2016, and will run for approximately four
Wave Hub Ltd (WHL), the site operator for the Wave Hub wave energy test site in Cornwall, has contracted MarineSpace to provide project management support to help push forward the development of its new wave and tidal demonstration zones. WHL was awarded the seabed leases for the Pembrokeshire Wave
Deepwater mooring specialist, First Subsea, has completed the installation of subsea mooring connectors for Anadarko Petroleum Corp’s Heidelberg truss spar platform moored in 1,620 meters of water in field development in the Gulf of Mexico. The 23,000-ton spar has been moored by nine Series III Ball
Amec Foster Wheeler has won three contracts from BP to provide services to the Glen Lyon floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel as part of the Quad 204 Project, located 175 km west of the Shetland Isles, UK. According to the company, the three reimbursable contracts are worth £31.
The Nordsee One offshore wind project, located in German territorial waters in the North Sea, has seen its first monopile installed on December 15, 2015, RWE informed Wednesday. The wind farm will consist of 54 Senvion turbines and is owned by Northland Power Inc. (85%) and RWE Innogy GmbH (15%). “T
Huawei Marine has partnered with Ooredoo Maldives to deploy a nationwide fiber optic submarine cable system. The nationwide submarine cable utilizes Huawei Marine’s 100G technology and stretches across 1,200 km, and should boost the quality of internet connectivity across the country. Combined with
