Romania’s SC Shark SRL has secured a diving/ROV services contract from OMV Petrom SA. The framework agreement, awarded earlier this year, requires the contractor to provide diving services, prospecting and operation of remotely operated vehicles, in order to explore the operating perimeters for the
IHC Hytech has informed the NST diver/technician team came successfully back on the surface after completing eleven interventions with in total 243 work hours at 10,8 bar in mixed gas saturation for Eurasia tunnel project in Turkey. The Eurasia Tunnel Project (Istanbul Strait Road Tube Crossing Proj
Wave energy developer, Carnegie Wave Energy Limited, has reported a commercial and technical progress with its CETO 6 Project also to be located off Garden Island. Carnegie has now reached financial close on the previously announced Clean Energy Finance Corporation’s (CEFC) five-year, $20 million lo
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited has, in conjunction with its partners AziNam (20%), NAMCOR (10%) and Ignitus (5%), started a 2D seismic acquisition survey of approximately 1,700km offshore Namibia. SeaBird Exploration is conducting the survey in the Central Blocks 2312 & 2412A, the company informed. Chari
Antwerp-based specialist in marine heavy lift operations, Scaldis Salvage & Marine Contractors NV, have ordered a self-propelled DP2 crane ship from Royal IHC. The Contract for the construction and delivery of the ship was signed on 29th January 2015. The design was drawn up in-house in cooperation
Norway’s Boa Marine Services’ AHTS/ROV vessel ‘Boa Bison’ has wrapped up its work at the Fecamp wind farm. The vessel was chartered by MT Højgaard to support the installation project. MT Højgaard lowered the Seatower Cranefree® foundation to a depth of nearly 30 metres on the seabed of the English C
RES Offshore has followed up the successful installation of the West of Duddon sands (WoDS) offshore met mast with a contract to carry out the operation and maintenance (O&M) of the met mast and equipment for the next 5 years. The mast was installed in August this year at the 389MW West of Duddon Sa
ELA Container Offshore GmbH has announced the production of 20 new Offshore Living Quarters and Multipurpose Rooms as of beginning of February. The company says that it wants to be able to always react to customers’ needs at short notice. Thereby, within just one year, the Offshore-Rental-Fleet incr
ELA Container Offshore GmbH has announced the production of 20 new Offshore Living Quarters and Multipurpose Rooms as of beginning of February. The company says that it wants to be able to always react to customers’ needs at short notice. Thereby, within just one year, the Offshore-Rental-Fleet incr
Coda Octopus reports that CLE has used the Echoscope and Coda Octopus positioning system (F175) on a project for the inspection of underwater cabling. The Echoscope was integrated onto a SAAB Sabertooth AUV. This inspection was conducted in an area with strong currents and visibility of less than 1
DeepOcean Ghana Limited has been awarded a contract to provide the services of a Multi Purpose Construction Vessel (MPV) to Tullow Ghana Limited. The scope of work for the contract is inspection, survey and subsea construction on the Tullow operated deepwater Jubilee and TEN Fields offshore Ghana. T
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway PSA has decided to initiate an investigation following a hydrocarbon leak on the Gudrun field in the North Sea on 18 February. The hydrocarbon leak on the Statoil-operated Gudrun field occurred at 06:40 on Wednesday February 18. Production was then shut down and
People who want to put forward their views on the application from Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre Limited (PTEC) should do so by emailing MMO before midnight on Friday 20 February 2015. They should include the reasoning and rationale for their views in their consultation response. The MMO received th
TGS has announced the extension of its Declaration Multi-WAZ Survey in the Mississippi Canyon and DeSoto Canyon protraction areas of the Gulf of Mexico. The extension represents a minimum 2,000 square kilometers of additional data to be acquired by CGG using the single pass vessel configuration deri
