Royal Dutch Shell is engaged in a multi-year drilling programme to explore for new oil & gas resources in high-potential blocks in offshore Alaska. Important progress has been made with this programme, with two drill ships, more than twenty support vessels, an approved capping stack, and other redun
Flexlife, an oil and gas industry specialist in subsea project and integrity management, has appointed Ciaran O’Donnell as its CEO. Mr O’Donnell was co-founder and CEO of CSL, a project management and engineering company. In 2007, he successfully sold the company to DOF Subsea, remaining for 3 years
Unique Maritime Group, one of the world’s leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution providers has been appointed as the exclusive Sales and Service distributor for Corilla Marine Products for the UAE, South Africa and India region. Corilla Plastics is a leading UK name in rotational mo
Schlumberger announced the opening of the Schlumberger China Petroleum Institute (SCPI) located in the Schlumberger China headquarters office building in the Chaoyang district of Beijing. The institute has more than 100 petro-technical experts, most of them co-located on the same floor of the office
The corporate assembly of Statoil ASA has elected Marjan Oudeman and Børge Brende as new members of Statoil’s board of directors. In addition, Grace Reksten Skaugen has been elected as new deputy chairman of the board. Oudeman is Executive Vice President, HR and Organisational Development, of Akzo N
Balltec Ltd, the UK based supplier of the MoorLOK™, the world’s most advanced ball and taper mooring connector, has successfully completed the supply and installation of 41 MoorLOK™ subsea mooring connectors (SMCs) for the Total USAN ‘FPSO’ and System ‘O’ projects. The MoorLOKs™ are moored in 3000ft
SSP Offshore announces that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (the “MOU”) with a new strategic partner to jointly pursue floating storage, production and offloading (“FPSO”) projects in Brazil and internationally based on the Corporation’s proprietary round SSP designs. The new strat
OceanWorks International announces the appointment of Mr. Billy Mckeown as General Manager for Aykor Teknolojik Ürünler Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi (OceanWorks Aykor) in Istanbul, Turkey. As General Manager, Billy’s function will be to manage the organisation’s operations from the Istanbul loca
Bowtech Products Ltd. (‘Bowtech’), a market leader in underwater and harsh environment vision systems, has announced that they will be exhibiting for the first time at the Rio Oil and Gas 2012 exhibition, on the Subsea UK Pavilion, Annex 3/4, No 11, September 17-20th at the Riocentro Convention Cent
Huisman, specialist in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions, has announced its plans to build a new production facility in Brazil and recently initiated the land fill works. The new facility will be located alongside the river Itajai-Açu in the city of Navegantes in Santa Catarina state, a state i
According to the Scottish Government, Moray First Marine Ltd, a marine company, has announced a tender for the supply of remotely-operated vehicle for survey services. The deadline for submission of tenders is 20 September 2012. Moray First Marine is a company that utilizing its various experiences,
Rigas Brivostas parvalde has announced a tender for a multi-purpose vessel. The estimated period of the project is ten months from the date of the contract award. Included in the tender are the design, construction and supply of a new multi-purpose hydrographic research survey vessel. The deadline o
Offshore operations demand work in harsh environments and challenging conditions; whether the work is done via bottom-founded barges or deepwater mobile offshore drilling units (MODU), the same essential monitoring equipment is required. With MODU, where water depths are up to 10,000 feet, floor-bot
Canada’s efforts to demonstrate world leadership in tidal energy research and technology are taking a significant step forward, as Ocean Networks Canada’s Centre of Enterprise and Engagement (ONCCEE) partners with researchers and industry to design and install the world’s first cabled underwater mon
