Marine Renewables Canada (MRC) is setting up workshops on locations across Nova Scotia for companies interested in exploring opportunities in the tidal energy supply chain. Three levels of government have partnered to contribute more than CAD 100.000 to the initiative. To build on the momentum of ti
The search for missing Malaysian Airline MH370 has now covered more than 75 percent of the seafloor in the initial search area. In its yesterday’s operational update, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) informed that the search plan has been modified to enable continuous search operations
Floating Power Plant (FPP), a Danish offshore energy developer, has designed a floating platform that extracts energy from wind and waves combined to produce electricity. Floating Power Plant has constructed a scaled P37 research and demonstration platform, that has been deployed at Vindeby offshore
The Italian Government has granted Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) its Single Authorisation Permit. The Single Authorisation is a key permit that allows TAP to move ahead with the start of pipeline construction in 2016. TAP will cross Northern Greece, Albania and the Adriatic Sea before coming ashore
Fourteen crew members are missing after a sand-carrier barge ‘Oceanline SC208’ capsized offshore Singapore yesterday, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) informs. At around 10.00 am, the MPA was alerted that a Bolivian-registered vessel had capsized 7.5 nautical miles north-east of Pe
The operation of searching for the missing pilots of the An-2 aircraft in the Baltic Sea carries on, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence informs. The An-2 and its crew lost contact on weekend in Lithuanian airspace and its two pilots have gone missing in the Baltic Sea The LNS Kuršis (M54) m
Oslo-listed, DOF Subsea, has posted profit for the first quarter 2015 of NOK 139 million ($18.4 million), versus NOK 402 million ($53.3 million) in the year-earlier period. The 65.4 per cent drop in profit, or NOK 263 million, is mainly due to net financial loss of NOK 320 million, related to unreal
Consortium consisting of Scottish Hydro Group and French Wenex Equipments has secured GBP 2.5 mln contract for developing wave energy test site off France. The project involves manufacturing and installation of the array cabling infrastructure on the SEM-REV marine renewable energy project 16 nautic
GE Oil & Gas has completed the first refurbishment of subsea production trees at its service base in Onne, Nigeria. The milestone was achieved under a contract awarded by Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo.). The GE team of Nigerian engineers dis-assembled the subsea trees to c
Jee Ltd. has been awarded a contract from Amec Foster Wheeler for the front end engineering design (FEED) of a jacket rigid polymer injection riser package (including J-tubes) as part of the Captain enhanced oil recovery (EOR) field development. The project will demonstrate the use of polymer chemic
Fugro has signed 2 new contracts with the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, for further mapping of the future Borssele wind farm park. According to RVO, under the contract, Fugro will take measurements of wind and sea conditions and conduct seabed researc
Transocean has reached two separate settlement agreements, with the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee (PSC) and with BP Exploration & Production and BP America Production. These settlements together resolve substantially all outstanding claims against Transocean arising from the April 20, 2010, Macondo
Fugro Subsea Services-operated ROV support vessel Fugro Symphony has reportedly caught fire, early this morning in Peterhead Harbour. According to reports, the fire-fighting teams were called for duty at approximately 3 AM on Wednesday and it took about 35 firefighters to extinguish the blaze. More
Oil services company, Oceaneering, is reportedly laying off employees in Norway as the company faces general decline in activity. According to Sysla.no, Oceaneering’s Erik Sæstad has confirmed that 100 new employees must leave the company, following the earlier reports on job cuts in Oceaneering Ass
