A Turkish ship began exploring for gas off the coast of Cyprus on Monday, the Turkish Cypriot government said, an announcement that escalates…
MCS Kenny, Wood Group Kenny’s riser engineering and software solutions company, has launched Version 8 of its industry-leading Flexcom™ riser design and analysis software. This new release will make it easier for engineering teams to model the characteristics of all types of oil & gas riser systems,
Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. announced that it has confirmed the identity and location of the shipwreck site of the SS Gairsoppa nearly 4,700 meters below the surface of the North Atlantic, approximately 300 miles off the coast of Ireland in international waters. The SS Gairsoppa was a 412-foot
Two hundred years on from the first recorded landing, researchers have compiled the first ever high-resolution map of the underwater seabed and reefs around Rockall. On September 8, 1811, a Royal Navy officer with a small crew landed on the isolated North Atlantic islet and scaled the 19 metre high
This past April, there was a big volcanic eruption in America’s Pacific Northwest. If you missed it, you’re not alone. Tom Banse (voanews) [mappress] Source: voanews, September 26, 2011;
A University High School engineering technology teacher will be exploring the ocean and sharing it with the world starting this Saturday… By Phyllis Coulter (pantagraph) [mappress] Source: pantagraph, September 26, 2011;
TGS has commenced a 2D multi-client seismic survey in offshore Eastern Indonesia immediately north of the Sunrise-Troubadour gas fields and to the west of the Abadi gas field. The 1,500 km survey, MHI11, will infill a seismic survey previously acquired in 2007 and an extensive multibeam data set in
NASA’s new Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface, providing an early glimpse of the mission’s anticipated discoveries. Aquarius, which is aboard the Aquarius/SAC-D (Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas) observatory, is making NASA’s first space ob
While NASA makes plans to send man to Mars, there’s still so much we don’t know about our home planet – particularly when it comes to what… By Darren Quick (gizmag) [mappress] Source: gizmag, September 23, 2011;
BIRNS, Inc., ISO 9001:2008 certified global leader in the design and manufacturing of high performance connectors, penetrators, custom cable assemblies and lights for the subsea and commercial diving markets, has introduced the most versatile helmet light mount in the diving industry: the new BIRNS
Swiber Holdings Limited , a world class integrated construction and support services provider to the offshore industry, announced today that its order book has rocketed close to US$1.0 billion, the highest in the Group’s corporate history, after securing its single largest contract win this year wor
A European “supergrid” connecting the electricity network of Britain to those of mainland Europe could cut the cost of connecting offshore… By Alex Morales (bloomberg) [mappress] Source: bloomberg, September 22, 2011;
The Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) has been awarded a $700,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office… (nawindpower) [mappress] Source: nawindpower, September 22, 2011
Coral reef managers in the Northern Mariana Islands will now receive early warning of dangerous environmental conditions that can weaken and kill high value coral reefs, thanks to a new coral observing station added in Lao Lao Bay, Saipan. The new station is a first-of-its-kind for the Pacific regio
