On November 19, 2015, a six-member Chinese delegation headed by Lu Hao, chairman of Environmental Protection and Resources Conservation Committee of National People’s Congress of China, visited the headquarters of the International Seabed Authority. During the meeting with the ISA Secretary-General
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (November 16 – November 22). DOF Subsea has struck a deal to sell the vessel Skandi Inspector to an undisclosed international buyer. Previously known as Tender Captain, Far Captain and Skandi Captain,
Collaborative project TiME has produced a guide that provides a framework for the tidal industry to measure, classify and analyse turbulence for commercial tidal arrays. The principle outcome of the TiME project include the development of new methods to measure and characterise turbulence. According
Turbine maintenance specialist GEV Wind Power has completed the first set of onshore trials for its in-house developed blade maintenance Habitat. The Habitat was installed on Power Climber and Kaeufer access platforms in varying weather conditions and ranging between 30 metres and 100 metres high, w
AW-Energy, a Finnish wave energy developer, has inaugurated a new wave energy testing facility built in collaboration with ABB, a power and automation technology group. The facility is located in Järvenpää, Finland, and comprises a 1.5 MW grid-connected wave energy test site designed to develop, tes
SeeByte, ASV and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have carried out trials on a software that could better enable a fleet of robotic vehicles to work together to perform tasks such as seeking and tracking whales and dolphins. This software acts like a ‘central brain’, making decisions about whe
Wave for Energy, a Turin-based wave energy developer, has released a video showcasing their ISWEC wave energy converter operating in real-sea conditions. ISWEC device was deployed off Sicily, Italy, in August this year. The system has overall dimensions of 8 m width, 15 m length and 4.5 m height, a
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has developed a new operations and maintenance (O&M) platform, called the Windbase, which includes an accommodation module, a full service base and a fully operational offshore heliport, removing the requirement for an onshore quayside facility. The company’s UK General Manag
Havyard Group has seen profit decline in the third quarter 2015 due to slashed utilization in all of its business areas. The Norwegian vessel designer and builder booked profit of NOK 6.9 million for the quarter, compared to NOK 13.9 million profit in the corresponding period in 2014. Earnings per s
Bhagwan Marine has been awarded a contract with Quadrant Energy Australia for the Diving Program during the Q4 2015. Bhagwan Marine will be providing Diving Services, Project Management and Engineering Services as well as the offshore execution from their Flagship Vessel the “Bhagwan Dryden” DSV. Th
Statoil, as the operator of production licence 120, has completed drilling of exploration well 34/8-16 S Tarvos on the east flank of the Visund field in the northern part of the North Sea, and about 140 km northwest of Bergen. The well encountered an oil/gas/condensate column of about 85 metres in t
ATP Oil & Gas has agreed to resolve actions under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) concerning unauthorized discharges of oil and chemicals from a floating oil and gas production platform into the Gulf of Mexico, announced the Department of Justice, BSEE and
DNV GL has informed that it accepts underwater examination of a ship’s bottom by means of remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) on a case by case basis. A remote means of examination, typically an ROV, may be used to carry out relevant parts of the in-water bottom survey referring to the “Rules
Shell intends next year to settle on its plan on subsea compression solution for Ormen Lange field, developed offshore Norway at water depths of between 800 and 1,100 metres. Mark Wildon, VP at Norske Shell told Reuters on Thursday: “We still expect in the course of 2016 that we will get to a point
