Jersey Electricity announces that the energy bills will rise in the future because of the malfunction of its two underwater cables. At the end of April there was an electrical fault which needs to be replaced on a section of the Channel Islands grid between Guernsey and Jersey. According to BBC News
As reported by ABC News, Inpex, an energy giant, in preparation for a dredging project in Darwin Harbour, will survey the harbour floor. Starting this week the survey will commence. Divers, survey boats as well as barges will begin the project in the channel area. Inpex needs the survey data to get
According to The Trinidad Express, The Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) is trying to find a solution to its submarine cable failure between Trinidad and Tobago. T&TEC’s General Manager Kelvin Ramsook stated that a public tender was approved for the number two submarine cable. This
Visitors to Lake Huron this summer may have a unique opportunity to glimpse science in action. During July and September… [mappress] Source: NOAA, July 10, 2012; Image: NOAA
Technip was awarded by Apache Energy Ltd a subsea installation contract worth approximately $60 million (about €50 million) for the Balnaves oil field development, located in the Carnarvon Basin, offshore North Western Australia, at a water depth of approximately 135 meters. The contract includes th
Matrix Composites & Engineering announced that it has been awarded new contracts totaling USD$48.2 million for the supply of drilling riser buoyancy, centralisers and distributed buoyancy for use in subsea development and onshore environments. Drilling Products The contracts to manufacture and suppl
MARINET (Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network) is a European Commission (FP7 programme) funded initiative which aims at accelerating the development of marine renewable energy technology by bringing together a network of 42 marine research facilities in countries all over Europe, including Ifrem
Research from the University of Southampton and National Oceanography, Southampton has provided new insight into the basic immune response and repair mechanisms of corals to disease and changing environmental conditions. Research from the University of Southampton and National Oceanography, Southamp
NOC scientist, Dr Henry Ruhl, is leading an expedition to the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, some 300 miles southwest of Lands End. He will be looking at how the shape of deep ocean floor and climate influence deep sea ecology, and he intends to do this by making a very large photographic map of the seafl
PTTEP announces today (July 9,2012 )that the second wellhead platform of Vietnam 16-1 project has been successfully installed, and this is expected to increase its capacity to about 55,000 bpd by the fourth quarter this year. Mr. Tevin Vongvanich, the President and CEO of PTT Exploration and Product
On Thursday 28 June 2012, STX Finland Oy’s Rauma Shipyard celebrated the flag-changing ceremony of the specialised vessel built for the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources of the Republic of Namibia. The event was witnessed by representatives of the customer, the Namibian Ministry of Fisherie
According to The Register, China is trying to master the ocean by developing a deep-sea station to conduct underwater mining. China Ship Scientific Research Centre announced the plans for the nuclear powered mobile deep-sea station earlier this year. The station will have propellers to move underwat
Reef Subsea AS announced today that its subsidiary company, Reef Subsea Power & Umbilical Ltd. with offices in Stockton on Tees and Aberdeen, has been awarded a major contract with Gwynt y Mor Offshore Wind Farm Limited, worth approximately £40m (61.9 million USD). It will see Reef Subsea Power & Um
OSIL are reporting an unprecedented level of interest in relation to their Giant Piston Corer, which offers the ability to retrieve core samples up to 30m in length from sediments at full ocean depth. The Giant Piston Corer is capable of achieving varying core lengths of up to 30m in soft, cohesive
