Across the horizon and miles out to sea toward the north, the Atlantic Ocean’s spring and summer ritual unfolds entailing the blooming of countless microscopic plants, or phytoplankton. In what’s known as the North Atlantic Bloom, an immense number of phytoplankton burst into existence, first “green
In its first-ever seasonal harmful algal bloom forecast for Lake Erie, NOAA researchers are predicting that western Lake Erie will have a… [mappress] Source: NOAA , July 06, 2012; Image: NOAA
On June 25-28, 2012 CARIS hosted the largest gathering of CARIS users at CARIS 2012, its 14th International User Group Conference. The four-day conference saw a record number of delegates in attendance from a variety of nations across the globe from government organizations, defence, hydrographic of
At its harbour location Nordenham, Rhenus Midgard delivered, stored and handled about 30 km of submarine cables on behalf of Nexans in May. The submarine cables of the world’s leading manufacturer in the cable industry will connect a part of the 111 wind turbines of Denmark’s largest offshore wind f
The Underwater Centre in Fort William and Unique System (UK) Ltd finalized the representation of The Underwater Centre agreement, according to Your Subsea News. Unique System (UK) Ltd, of Unique Maritime Group Company, will highlight the services and the facilities of the centre to the industry. Uni
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has signed an agreement with Statoil for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment to support the Gullfaks South field development. The contract has an estimated value of $200 million in revenue to FMC Technologies. Gullfaks South will b
On Wednesday a malfunction on the internet cable IMEWE caused the internet blackout which continued on Thursday as well, according to dailystar.com. Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui stated: “There is a crisis due to an internet blackout and we are unable to fix the broken cable near Alex
In a period of only ten days Hydrex diver/technician teams have flown all over the planet to perform a wide range of underwater operations on five different continents. The services offered ranged from routine inspections and maintenance work all the way through to highly technical major repairs. Am
Fugro Offshore Geotechnics, specialists in marine site investigation and geo-consulting, and Gregg Marine, Inc., specialists in seabed robotic drilling, announce the formation of a new Joint Venture company: Seafloor Geotec, LLC (SGL). SGL will be headquartered in Moss Landing, California, United St
The citizens from Shapinsay, Scotland, will receive clearer, fresher water supplies thanks to a subsea pipeline project, Trenchless International reports. This £3.1 million Scottish Water Solutions project included drilling of a 300 mm diameter hole under the seabed over a distance of 2 km. This is
Enormous amounts of rare earth deposits were discovered about 1,243 miles southeast of Tokyo. Japanese researchers that made the discovery announced that the amount is enough to supply Japan with minerals for 230 years, Upi.com reports. The group headed by University of Tokyo Professor Yasuhiro Kato
As a response to China’s growing deep sea mining industry, India announces plans to invest into the development of their mining industry over the period of five years, Hindustantimes.com reports. The minister of state for science and technology Ashwini Kumar stated: “We will like our presence felt i
This week VOSCF, a joint venture between Sovcomflot and Van Oord, successfully installed a Gravity Based Structure (GBS) for the offshore platform Berkut in the Arkutun Dagi field offshore Sakhalin Island. The GBS was designed and constructed by Kvaerner in the Russian mainland port of Vostochny in
Subsea 7 S.A. announced today that its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Simon Crowe will leave the Group to pursue other interests with effect from the end of July. Simon will be succeeded by Ricardo Rosa who will take up the position of CFO for Subsea 7 SA on 9th July 2012. Ricardo Rosa was until [&h
