Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW), a subsidiary of General Cable Corporation, has been awarded a contract by E.ON to supply 82km of medium-voltage submarine array cables for its Humber Gateway offshore wind farm. Delivery of cables is scheduled for 2013. Thorsten Schwarz, Managing Director NSW:
Irish leader in the design and development of environmentally sustainable wave energy conversion systems, Wavebob, announced that the administrative expenses tripled to €1.8m last year. As Independent.ie reports, Wavebob directors noted that the receipt of the research and development grant had the
The vessel Artemis Atlantic has resumed acquisition of 2D seismic data as planned in the north-eastern part of the Barents Sea. A total of approx. 14 300 kilometres (about 40 lines) of seismic will be acquired in this area, and according to the plan, the work will continue until mid-October. The fis
An American ocean survey firm, Schmidt Ocean institute, has recently reported that they have discovered the wreck of the SS Terra Nova, a Scottish-made wooden ship, off the coast of Greenland. The wreck was discovered during testing operations of the company’s echo sound equipment on their flagship
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has received a Letter of Award for a contract worth approximately USD 20 million from a major international oil company to acquire 3D electromagnetic (EM) data offshore Brunei. Data acquisition will be performed from the vessel EM Leader with start-up in the fo
The Secretary of State’s Representative for Maritime Salvage and Intervention has approved Shell UK’s plans to remove oil contained in the Gannet pipeline. The operation will recover the majority of the oil remaining in the carrier pipe, at a water depth of 91m (300ft), following an oil leak from th
NetSurvey has recently passed their certification audit and are now certified according to the quality, environmental and working environment standards. The certification was conducted by INTERTEK and is according to the ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007 standards. MMT Group´s Quali
Gravitas Offshore Limited is the latest UK company to secure innovation funding from a DECC and Technology Strategy Board (TSB) innovation scheme to support the development of next generation offshore wind technology. Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker said: “The Coalition is committed t
VNPT and Viettel announce co-operation with Facebook and other Asian telecommunication providers to invest in Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE), which will run from Malaysia to the Republic of Korea. China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom (China), Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan), KT and LG (the RoK),
The Royal Navy survey ship HMS Echo returns home to the HM Naval Base, Devonport, Plymouth, today (16 August) after a 19 month deployment. The ship has been away for 593 days with 421 actually at sea and has sailed about 74,000 miles – 2.5 times around the equator. The ship made 24 stops in [&hellip
OceanWorks International has designed, manufactured, and delivered the SIIM-375, a new mini-Node variant of the Subsea Instrument Interface Module (SIIM) to the VENUS observatory. The SIIM-375 provides Node-like functionality for deployments on extension cables, significantly extending the capabilit
Worthington Energy, Inc., an energy company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and drilling of oil and natural gas properties, reports that the Company continues to make significant progress on the I-1 Well project. Over the past week the I-1 crew completed the pipeline installatio
WHOI Senior Scientist Scott Doney is one of several contributors to a new comprehensive index designed to assess the benefits to people of healthy oceans worldwide. The Index – being called the Ocean Health Index – is the first broad, quantitative assessment of the critical relationships between the
As part of the Obama Administration’s continuing commitment to expanding safe and responsible offshore energy exploration and development, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) announced the issuance of a final drilling safety rule. The rule makes final the important safety refor
