Auditing and assurance plays a crucial part of ensuring the safety and integrity of any diving system as well as ensuring efficient diving operations. Therefore it is essential that all diving systems are audited by a competent auditor, periodically or post mobilisation. The past twelve months have
Sandy Harper has recently joined the National Hyperbaric Centre’s as their new Diving System Technology & Consulting Manager. Sandy, who has an extensive background in diving system auditing and assurance as well as consulting, has joined the NHC to focus on expanding the Consulting & Auditing servi
Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s biggest shipbuilder and offshore facilities contractor announced today that the Company completed developing its own Hyundai FLNG (Floating Liquefied Natural Gas Plant) model in association with Linde AG, an international industrial gases and engineering company
DeepOcean Group Holding AS, an integrated provider of subsea engineering and trenching services, today appointed Bart H. Heijermans as their new CEO effective February 1, 2012. The announcement represents the next step in DeepOcean Group’s development into a leading global subsea services organizati
Statoil’s drilling of the Skinfaks South well in the North Sea has been completed and the estimated volume is between 1.9 and 6.9 million barrels of oil equivalents. This is the fourth infrastructure-near discovery in the Gullfaks area in a 10 month period. Light oil has been confirmed in Middle Jur
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) issued guidance to oil and gas companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) extending existing guidance on how to conduct archaeological resources surveys and prepare
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has given notice to exercise its purchase option for the remaining 55% of outstanding shares of Schilling Robotics LLC. The transaction is expected to close on or about March 30, 2012. FMC purchased its existing 45% interest in Schilling and obtained the purc
Maine ocean research laboratory is to receive more than $600,000 federal government grant. National Science Foundation has provided the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Boothbay Harbor with $603,631 grant to carry out natural oceanography research. The study will be conducted in the area of
The Royal Navy’s former flagship, the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, could soon be transformed into a shipwreck for deep sea divers… (dailymail) [mappress] Source: dailymail, January 02 , 2012
Waves at The Wedge are legendary for hurling bodysurfers into the air and sweeping tourists off their feet… By Mike Reicher (dailypilot) [mappress] Source: dailypilot , January 02 , 2012; Image: Green Wave Energy Corp
The hedges were given over the objections of the Communications Ministry legal and economics departments. Ministry of Communications director general Eden Bar-Tal instructed the ministry’s legal and economics departments to create hedges for Tamares Telecom Ltd., which is laying a third undersea cab
Bangladesh will be connected to its second submarine cable in 2014… (bdnews24) [mappress] Source: bdnews24 , January 02 , 2012; Image: SEA-ME-WE
Nautilus Minerals Inc. yesterday filed its updated Mineral Resource Estimate for the Solwara Project in the Bismarck Sea in Papua New Guinea. Details of the updated resource were released to the market on November 25, 2011. About Nautilus Minerals Inc. Nautilus is the first company to explore the oc
A state committee charged with finding offshore sites for wave energy announced last week that it would hold a public meeting in Waldport in… Larry Coonrod (southlincolncountynews) [mappress] Source: southlincolncountynews , December 29, 2011
