One of the U.S. Navy’s battery-powered vehicles has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City, News Herald informs. Naval command lost contact with the 6-feet long Remus 100 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle on Thursday night during a training exercise. The UUV was heading north after the loss of c
Expro International Group Holdings Ltd (Expro) announces the appointment of Jim Renfroe, as a Non-Executive Director. A graduate of Harvard’s Advanced Management Program, Mr Renfroe brings a wealth of experience in his 39 years working in oilfield services, including a range of strategic management
BP announced it has begun construction of a new facility to house the largest supercomputing complex for commercial research in the world, a project that will keep BP at the forefront of seismic imaging technology and be a critical tool in its global hunt for oil and natural gas in coming years. The
The Minister of New and Renewable Energy, DR. FAROOQ ABDULLAH informed Lok Sabha that in order to exploit tidal power, Government of Gujarat has signed a Memorandum of Understanding in January 2011 for establishing a 250 MW tidal power project in Gulf of Kutch with Gujarat Power Corporation Ltd. (GP
The most pressing issues that UK marine science needs to address over the next two decades are the subject of a prospectus published as a themed issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A last month. The volume is co-edited and carries contributions by scientists based at the Nat
Woodside advises that MPRL E&P Pte Ltd has accepted its offer to farm-in to block A-6 in the Rakhine Basin, located in the western offshore area of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. The offer is for a 50% interest in the block and is subject to certain conditions including execution of fully ter
Havila Shipping ASA has entered into an agreement with Subsea 7, whereby Subsea 7 will acquire Havila Shipping’s 50% interest in the joint venture, Acergy Havila Limited. The joint venture owns the Diving Support Vessel “Seven Havila” which was built in 2010 and delivered to the joint venture in Feb
The Russkaya compressor station site (near Anapa, Krasnodar Territory) hosted the celebrations dedicated to the construction start-up of the South Stream gas pipeline. The celebrations were attended by Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, representatives of the participating countrie
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS (KOGT), a wholly owned company of KONGSBERG, has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Apply Nemo AS, an independent supplier of engineering services, products and solutions for subsea oil and gas applications. The acquisition, which is expect
Polarcus Limited announces that the Company has been invited to enter into final negotiations with the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (“TPAO”) over a long-term collaboration arrangement between the parties, which will include the sale and reflagging of the 8-streamer 3D seismic vessel Polarcus Samur
OceanServer Technology continues to deliver superior AUV based acoustic imaging with the qualification and release of the new EdgeTech 2205 high resolution side scan sonar. The 2205, designed specifically for use on AUVs, represents EdgeTech’s latest generation of electronics, transducers and softwa
CNOOC Limited announced that it received notice from Canada’s Minister of Industry that its proposed acquisition of Nexen has been approved by the Minister under the Investment Canada Act. This approval is one of the conditions precedent to the completion of the proposed acquisition. Mr. Wang Yilin,
Vantage Drilling Company (“Vantage”) announced that the ultra-deepwater drillship, Titanium Explorer, commenced operations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico on the morning of December 7th, 2012. The Titanium Explorer is contracted by Petrobras for eight years, and the expected revenues of the contract are
As the regulatory requirement to assess reservoirs and lakes expands to include smaller bodies of water, HR Wallingford has developed a remote control boat which is able to collect hydrometric data quickly, simply, safely and accurately. The ARC-Boat employs a sophisticated SonTek (a Xylem company)
