Eni has signed an agreement with KrisEnergy and Neon Energy for two exploration blocks located offshore Vietnam, in the Song Hong and Phu Khanh basins in the Gulf of Tonkin. The Song Hong Basin is estimated to contain 10% of Vietnam’s hydrocarbon resources, mainly gas, and significant discoveries ha
Survey company Geo Plus will soon be putting into service its brand new survey ship Geo Focus. This innovative, hybrid ship will be officially christened on 23 June. The 35 metre long Geo Focus, which Geo Plus commissioned, was developed through a collaboration between Studio Yacht and De Haas Maass
The oldest vessel in U.S. academic fleet returns to San Diego after a 10-month expedition, 10news.com reports. The research vessel Melville went on 11 research voyages during its deployment. The expedition covered climate studies in the remote South Pacific, water mass studies in Africa and studies
Oil and gas engineering group Penspen has announced plans to open a new office in Mexico City to expand on its existing bases in Ciudad de Carmen and Comalcalco. The office will be Penspen’s third location in Mexico. Penspen has had a strong presence in Mexico for over 15 years, undertaking a wide r
A team of NOAA-supported scientists is predicting that this year’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone could range from a low of approximately… [mappress] Source: NOAA, June 22, 2012; Image: NOAA
Subsea intervention specialist Marin Group has unveiled a versatile new high-volume grab tool designed for use across a range of applications, including large-scale brownfield clearance. The tool — available from operating company Marin Subsea — forms part of the EVO Marin Debris Recovery System (MD
Liquid Robotics, Inc. and Schlumberger announced the creation of Liquid Robotics Oil & Gas, a joint venture to develop services for the oil and gas industry using Wave Gliders, the world’s first wave-powered, autonomous marine vehicles. The joint venture will combine Liquid Robotics Wave Glider tech
Siemens and the utility company Allgäuer Überlandwerk (AÜW) in the city of Kempten, Germany, together with the RWTH university in Aachen and Kempten University, are testing a smart grid in the Allgäu village of Wildpoldsried. The joint project IRENE was launched in 2011 and will run for two years. A
Statoil and Rosneft signed agreements on joint bidding for exploration licenses in the Norwegian Barents Sea and on Joint Technical Evaluation covering two Russian onshore assets. This concludes the first implementation agreements envisaged in the strategic cooperation that the two companies entered
ITF, the technology facilitator for the global oil and gas industry, will host a Regional Technology Conference in Perth, Australia on 25 June, where key industry players will take the next steps to unlock solutions for remote deepwater oil and gas assets. More than 60 senior figures from specialist
Siport21 has presented three technical studies developed in Argentina, Uruguay and Bulgaria in the 7th Congress of Argentinean Engineers Association, celebrated in Buenos Aires. These projects are examples of the international character of the company, who carried out projects in 14 countries during
Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee visited the Portovaya compressor station – the key operational element of the Nord Stream gas pipeline. He heard the report on completion of testing at the first string of the gas pipeline. Performed in compliance with the industrial standa
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a study called Renewable Electricity Futures, which says that 80% of electricity demand in 2050 could be adequately supplied by renewable sources. Moreover, the agency says that this could be achieved by using the technologies that are curren
A new device, that is not yet built, will mimic the wave-damping effect of a muddy seafloor thus extracting energy from waves passing over it, Environmentalresearchweb.org reports. A synthetic “seabed carpet” will offer a new way of producing clean and cheap electricity and at the same time will pro
