Ocean Renewable Power Co., a Maine company is the first developer of tidal energy to get a commercial project on the grid in North America. According to The Chronicle Herald, the company’s turbine in Maine’s Cobscook Bay started producing electricity last week, however it will not officially start p
A unique voyage of discovery into open waters off northern Australia starts today, when an Australian Government research vessel with 11 marine scientists aboard leaves Broome. The 21-day survey of marine life is being undertaken under the auspices of the Australian Government’s National Environment
Acadia celebrated the Official Opening of the Acadia Tidal Energy Institute on Tuesday, 11 September, in the Festival Theatre (across the street from the Beveridge Arts Centre) in Canada. Acadia’s long history of Bay of Fundy tidal energy initiatives dates back to 1915 when Acadia Engineering Profes
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that it has completed Berangan-1 well in SB303 Block, offshore Sabah, Malaysia, as a gas discovery. Berangan-1 is a vertical well drilled to a depth of 1,709 metres in approximately 70 metres water depth. The well penetrated a gross gas column of over
Bladt just finished the fabrication of one suction anchor for their well-know Norwegian client Sevan Marine. The suction anchor is very similar to the 13 anchors Bladt fabricated to Sevan Marine in 2011, and the suction anchor will also head for the same destination the Huntington field, which is lo
Stork Technical Services Subsea today announces it will create 10 new positions and invest £2million in its vessel fleet after securing a raft of new contracts. The contract awards, which total more than £10 million, will see Stork Subsea deliver a range of IRM (integrated inspection, repair and mai
During a scientific expedition, a Japanese drilling vessel, Chikyu, has set a new world record by drilling over 2,111 meters beneath the seafloor. According to FoxNews, the drilling work was executed off Shimokita Peninsula of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The goal of the Deep Coalbed Biosph
Oceanteam Shipping has announced a joint venture with WIND B.V. from the Netherlands to offer a complete range of submarine cable storage and handling services to cable manufacturers, contractors and operators. OceanWind Cable Storage Solutions joint venture provides, at its cable facility in Velsen
On September 10, at around 6 pm, Petrobras’ FPSO Cidade de Anchieta began producing oil from well 7-BAZ-02-ESS. This floating production, storage and offloading platform is located in the Baleia Azul field, in the area known as Parque das Baleias in the Campos Basin off the coast of Espírito Santo.
Odyssey Marine Exploration, pioneers in the field of deep-ocean exploration, announced that the chartered vessel working on the SS Gairsoppa project, the Seabed Worker, will make a scheduled port call in Cork, Ireland, beginning today, September 12, 2012. After taking on fuel, supplies and changing
Built by Yantar shipyard for Russian Navy, research ship Seliger started sea trials in the Black Sea, reports RIA Novosti referring to the shipyard’s press secretary Sergei Mikhailov. As for him, “the ship took the Black Sea for the first time on September 8 to complete the shipyard’s trials. First
Gardline Geosciences Limited, specialists in the offshore geotechnical and geophysical market, and Canyon Offshore Ltd, specialists in subsea robotics, trenching and seabed intervention, announce a 3-year strategic alliance to provide seabed drilling, sampling and in-situ services to complement Gard
The oil and gas discovery Draupne, located centrally in the North Sea, has today been renamed Ivar Aasen. The name was chosen following proposals from the operator and feedback from the advisory committee on names. Sunnmøre-native Ivar Aasen was a leading democratic and national strategist in Norway
OYO Geospace announced that it has accepted a non-binding letter of intent with the international energy company Statoil to provide 600 kilometers of seabed seismic reservoir monitoring system for the Snorre and Grane fields on the Norwegian continental shelf. Under the letter of intent, Statoil is
