Moray First Marine Ltd. has secured 50% match funding from the Scottish Government’s European Fisheries Fund (Axis 4) programme and The Moray Council for the purchase of a new and much improved ROV. The Lossiemouth based business has placed an order for a Sub Atlantic Mojave ROV and they expect it t
Coastline Surveys Ltd (CSL) have completed three high resolution multi-beam hydrographic surveys in the Southern North Sea, using the latest generation R2SONIC 2024 combined with an IxBlue Octans MKIII Gyro / MRU and C-NAV 3050 RTK GPS positioning. The CSL survey vessel MV FlatHolm managed to comple
DeepOcean has been awarded extensions and additional work under long term Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) contract with Statoil. The awarded work includes a 1 year option for the Edda Fauna and a 7 months option for Edda Fonn. The award represents an addition of several hundred million kron
DOF Subsea Group has been awarded a contract in Gulf of Mexico for survey and pipelay support for Saipem America. The total contract value is approximately USD 17 million and work will commence in 2nd quarter 2013. [mappress] Press Release, December 04, 2012
One of the leading Vietnamese companies, PetroVietnam, accused Chinese fishing boats of cutting the subsea cable that the seismic survey ship positioned in the South China Sea, Maritime-Executive reports. The vessel Binh Minh 2 positioned the cable off the coast of central Vietnam last Friday, after
Deep Down, Inc. (“Deep Down”), an oilfield services company specializing in complex deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil production distribution system support services announced that it has received orders in excess of $2.4 million from two international customers for the provision of subsea hardware
International oilfield services company, Expro, is opening a new facility in Aberdeen to enhance its growing well intervention business, following a strong annual global revenue increase to more than $1billion (£630 million). The site, in Howe Moss Avenue Dyce, will house Expro’s wireline, well inte
Fastnet Oil & Gas plc, an independent oil and gas exploration company, announced plans to conduct the biggest ever 3D seismic survey in the Celtic Sea, Independent.ie reports. The cost of the survey would be over EUR 20 million (26.1 mln USD), and the company will seek partners to jointly fund the s
Geo Networks Ltd (Geo), a leading fibre network provider, has announced the completion of the newest diverse optical fibre ring between the UK and Ireland, providing the most advanced, secure and reliable, high performance network between the two countries. Built in collaboration with our partners,
Energy industry leaders will get together to explore the challenges of subsea pipeline integrity at a high-level business conference in London this week (7 December 2012). Subsea UK is hosting the Subsea Pipelines Integrity Management conference, in partnership with the Pipeline Industries Guild and
Coastline Surveys announce the appointment of Andrew Johnson as Hydrographic Services Division Manager. Andy has amassed a wealth of experience during his professional 25 year career in the marine industry worldwide. Andy has particular talents and enthusiasm in team building, business development a
Recently, Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW) was awarded an order by TenneT TSO GmbH (TenneT), a German-based transmission network operator, to supply and install 2 x 8,5 kilometers of 155 kV AC submarine transmission cable system. The cable will provide the connection of the transformer platform
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, announces provisional exploration licence awards in the Dreki area on the Icelandic Continental Shelf in the Icelandic 2n
Shipowner Polarcus has received the world’s first-ever DNV Level 1 Triple-E™ rating, a voluntary environmental rating scheme for ships, where 1 is the highest. All eight vessels in the Polarcus fleet are designed by ULSTEIN. The rating is based on a verification of a ship’s actual energy efficiency
