Badger Explorer (BXPL) has signed an agreement with Statoil, whereby the oil company will sponsor the first phase of the Badger Explorer Development Program. The objective of the Development Program is to further develop, design and qualify technologies and solutions for a commercial Badger Explorer
Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) has issued an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) for the offshore section of the project. TAP’s 36-inch offshore part across the Adriatic Sea, between the coastlines of Albania and southern Italy, will be app
The government of Chile, through the Ministry of Energy and Corfo, has signed an agreement with French-based DCNS to create a marine energy research and development center in Chile. The agreement was signed by Maximo Pacheco, Minister of Energy for Chile, Hervé Guillou, CEO of DCNS, and Eduardo Bitr
Local Planning Authority has granted an outline planning consent for the onshore elements of the Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC) on the Isle of Wight, southern England. A planning application was submitted to the Isle of Wight Council in November last year for a substation and associated infras
NorSea Group (UK) has won North-east Scotland’s first major “small piece” decommissioning contract. Work has already begun on the six-month project which is being carried out at NorSea Group’s Peterhead facility on behalf of Endeavour Energy and involves safe disposal of subsea manifolds and associa
The steel jacket of the Ivar Aasen platform was lifted in place early this morning (June 10, 2015), and is now ready to be completed with the platform deck, which is under production on the SMOE yard in Singapore. The SSCV Thialf lifted the steel jacket slowly down to the seabed at 112 meters depth.
Providence has recently completed an initial assessment of the Paleocene section within Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 2/14 in the southern Porcupine Basin, using the newly acquired Polarcus MC3D seismic reflection data. This interpretation has confirmed the presence of a large c. 400 km2 Paleoc
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has released new videos showing the weather conditions the vessels are encountering in the southern Indian Ocean. The search for the missing Malaysian Airline MH370 has now covered more than 50,000 square kilometers of the seafloor, and the operation ext
UK Secretary of State, Amber Rudd, has granted the planning consent for the construction of the world’s first tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay. Swansea Bay 320 MW tidal lagoon project, developed by Tidal Lagoon Power, has a design life of 120 years and a net annual power output of 400 GWh. It is enough t
Whangarei diving company The Dive Spot Limited has been fined $50,000 and co-director and skipper Mark Andrew Barnes fined $25,000 after the death of diver Bruce Porter on 7 February 2014. Reparations of $50,000 and $30,000 are also to be paid by The Dive Spot Limited and Barnes, respectively. Porte
A multi-national team of European, Canadian, and American ocean exploration experts lead by Thomas Furey, Marine Institute, has revealed previously uncharted features on the Atlantic seabed including mountains and ridges taller than Carrauntoohil, Ireland’s highest mountain. The survey onboard Irela
AtlantOS, one of the largest and most ambitious marine research projects of recent decades has just started and holds its kick-off meeting, with more than 130 representatives of the project partners, from 10 to 12 June in Brussels. During this kick-off meeting the details of the work program will be
ShawCor informed that its Bredero Shaw pipe coating division has received notification from Europipe GmbH that the suspension of the work on its contract with Europipe for the concrete weight coating of Line 1 of the South Stream Pipeline has been lifted with immediate effect and that work on this c
Pipelaying for the Statoil-operated Mariner field on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) started Monday 8 June. Around 40 kilometers of pipelines for gas, oil and diluent will be installed on the seabed from pipelay vessel Seven Navica. The Mariner field is developed with a production, drilling and quar
