RES Offshore has successfully completed its first Engineer Procure Construct (EPC) contract for the design and installation of Met Mast for the West of Duddon Sands Offshore Wind Farm. Having been awarded the contract in June 2013, RES has project managed the design, fabrication and installation of
CAGE, Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate has selected Kongsberg Maritime to develop and deliver two ocean observatories. The observatories will be deployed off the coast of Svalbard (Norwegian islands in the Arctic Ocean) during 2015, to monitor methane leaks from the seabed. The
OPC has formed an alliance with INTECSEA and signed an MOU that brings together the subsurface expertise of OPC and the subsea facilities, pipeline and topside engineering expertise of INTECSEA/Worley Parsons Group to offer a fully integrated Reservoir to Market (R2M) concept. The R2M model aims t
A truly unique article entitled “Reducing shoaling in the Texas Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) and erosion of Barrier Islands along West Galveston Bay” has won this year’s IADC Young Author Award. This project utilized a Regional Sediment Management (RSM) approach in an attempt to quantify the so
BG Group announced the early start of production from the Iracema area in block BM-S-11, one of the Group’s and its partners’ significant discoveries in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The Cidade de Mangaratiba floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is the first unit deployed o
HitecVision, a private equity investor focused on the upstream offshore oil and gas industry, has established CapeOmega, a start-up E&P company focusing on late life production and decommissioning on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). After decades of successful exploration and production of the
Royal Australian Navy’s first submarine, the AE1, that sank offshore Papua New Guinea was reported found. The discovery was made by Merlindown system. Merlindown system is used in conjunction with high-definition images from the Landsat 8 satellite, together with the archived images from Landsat 5 a
Gardline’s Marine Wildlife Department has successfully completed the marine mammal mitigation work for the Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm. The wind farm will be located 8km off the East Yorkshire coast and will have 73 turbines, with a capacity of up to 219MW. Gardline worked closely with E.ON, e
Gardline’s Marine Wildlife Department has successfully completed the marine mammal mitigation work for the Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm. The wind farm will be located 8 km off the East Yorkshire coast and will have 73 turbines, with a capacity of up to 219 MW. Gardline worked closely with E.ON,
Dredge Yard has successfully delivered to Van Oord several heavy duty dredge ball joints for the use on discharge pipe of 1000 mm diameter. These dredge ball joints will be used in the Gulf region, which is experiencing exponential growth in infrastructure projects and marine structures. Dredge Yard
After the oceanographic research vessel “Admiral Vladimirsky” left the port of Pevek 10 days ago, it arrived to the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky yesterday, October 13. The Russian Navy’s Baltic Fleet (BF) vessel is conducting a circumnavigation and collecting oceanographic data. During its Arc
MBARI researchers aboard the R/V Rachel Carson discovered an apparently old, large jet engine in Monterey Bay while conducting a seafloor survey 17 miles from Moss Landing, California. During the survey, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) pilot Mike Burczynski observed a large sonar signal. He maneuver
Statoil and co-venturer ExxonMobil announced that the Giligiliani-1 exploration well has resulted in a new natural gas discovery offshore Tanzania. The discovery of an additional 1.2 trillion cubic feet (tcf*) of natural gas in place in the Giligiliani-1 well brings the total of in-place volumes up
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Wind Power in United States, Market Outlook to 2025, Update 2014 – Capacity, Generation, Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), Investment Trends, Regulations and Company Profiles” report to their offering. The report provides in depth analysis on gl
