During 30 years as a commercial diver Bob Durrant was often intrigued by the impact discarded car tyres had on the seabed. So instead of retiring, he launched a company to investigate whether linked tyres could prevent sand scouring which causes problems for turbines, cables and other subsea structu
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has signed a five-year global frame agreement with BP to provide subsea production systems and life-of-field services for their worldwide subsea development projects. “We have a strong relationship with BP and have supported a number of their projects in the
This frame agreement will allow Technocean AS, a subsidiary of Reef Subsea AS, to act as a partner to Technip Norway and other Technip Group companies for subsea services in the NCS (both Norway and UK) and Canada according to pre-agreed terms. Technocean will perform its commitments calling on its
Infinera has been selected by MedNautilus to upgrade its subsea network for the speed of deployment and scalability of the Infinera submarine solution. MedNautilus, the Mediterranean operations of the Telecom Italia Sparkle Group and the first and only protected submarine ring-configured backbone in
The EPIC project with Statoil, an internationally renowned energy company, is worth approximately US$41 million and will involve EMAS AMC supplying and installing 55km of power cables along with associated terminations and ancillaries for the Gudrun field in the North Sea. State-of-the-art multipurp
YSI, along with two of its divisions—SonTek/YSI and YSI Integrated Systems—will be demonstrating three systems which can deliver cost-saving solutions for oceanographic data collection at the Ocean Business Exhibition. On Tuesday, April 5, YSI will demonstrate a new, simple, fast and accurate CTD, t
TSmarine and SMIT Subsea Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Boskalis, have entered into a long term frame agreement where SMIT will provide diving services to TSmarine. Under the agreement SMIT will install its new state-of-the-art S4 12-man saturation dive system on TSmarine’s multipurpose off
Six engineers from Narec’s offshore wind and marine renewable teams will spend this week at the The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Boulder, Colorado. Invited by NREL, as part of a Crada research agreement between the two centres to share resources and experiences in the development o
The influence ocean eddies have on marine life in the oceans surrounding Australia’s south-east is expected to become clearer after scientists examine data from new deep-diving research ‘gliders’ patrolling the East Australian Current. Eddies can be up to 200 kilometres across and they distribute he
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that T. Jay Collins will retire from his position as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) immediately following the 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which is scheduled to be held on May 6, 2011. M. Kevin McEvoy, Oceaneering’s Executive Vice Presid
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that Peter D. Kinnear will be succeeded by John T. Gremp as President and Chief Executive Officer effective March 1, 2011. Additionally, Mr. Gremp has joined the Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Kinnear will continue in the role of Chairman of the Board until Octobe
Endeavour International Corporation announced the United Kingdom Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has approved the Rochelle Field Development Plan (FDP) for Block 15/27 in the Central North Sea, now known as East Rochelle. This approval represents phase one of the development of the Gr
The Marine Well Containment Company welcomed Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael Bromwich to Houston today as part of ongoing discussions about the company’s interim well containment response system. The syste
Lewek Champion will lay 70 km of pipes and install 11 wellhead platforms in the Gulf of Thailand. Contract for the heavy-lift accommodation pipelay vessel expected to contribute significantly to the Group’s FY11 performance. Will focus on keeping fleet well-deployed in view of expected pick-up in of
