A&P Group is determined to continue to deliver growth for its business in the North East. Against the background of a very competitive market place for its services, and to build on the ship repair, fabrication and conversion business, the Group recognises the potential opportunities and challenges
Four Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego researchers will receive Navy funding to acquire and deploy instruments in support of studies ranging from coastal oceanography to deep-ocean acoustics. The awards mark the continuation of a partnership between Scripps and the Navy that predat
Saipem has awarded Ocean Installer a subcontract for the installation and recovery of a Pipeline Initiation System at the Scott Field development. Saipem is contracted to undertake pipelay operations at the Scott Field development, and has subcontracted the installation and recovery of a Pipeline In
Fugro N.V. announces it is undertaking a review of all options for its marine streamer seismic data acquisition business and associated activities. This review is initiated on the basis of Fugro’s position in the market; that Fugro has no current plans to increase the size of its high end, modern, s
Emperor cable cleats from Yorkshire-based manufacturer, Ellis are being installed on a wind farm project that when complete will power over 470,000 homes. The cleats, which were specified by JDR Cable Systems, are being used on the London Array Offshore Wind Farm, which is currently being built 20km
Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around the world. The main focus of the program is to understand the fundamentals of propulsion mechanisms uti
Papua New Guinea’s next government has been asked to dismiss the Nautilus Deep Sea mining project, reports Radio Australia. According to Wenceslaus Magun, the national coordinator of the environmental group Mas Kagin Tapani Association, nearly every mining project in PNG has been an “environmental d
Recently the 9,150 tonnes Statoil jacket set sail from the Heerema Vlissingen yard to its final destination at Valemon gas field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in a water depth of approximately 135 metres and about 160 kilometers west of Bergen, Norway. In less than 2 years, after contract award
A leading subsea trials and training centre has welcomed back a former student who is now a leading industry expert, more than thirty years after he qualified on the saturation closed bell mixed gas course. Derek Beddows, Upstream Diving Technical Authority for BP returned to The Underwater Centre i
Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. Ltd (JAPEX) and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) announce that Kangean Energy Indonesia Ltd. (Operator), a wholly-owned subsidary of Energi Mega Pratama Inc. (JAPEX and MC each makes a 25% investment in Energi Mega Pratama Inc.) based in Republic of Indonesia, has started
China Oilfield Services Limited attended the 36th IPA Indonesian Petroleum Association Convention and Exhibition which was recently held at the Jakarta Convention Center. This is the sixth year in a roll that COSL participates in the same event as one of the major exhibitors. The IPA Convention and
ESE, a security systems integrator based in Saudi Arabia has been awarded a contract for the installation of a Sonardyne Sentinel Intruder Detection Sonar (IDS) for the protection of an undisclosed key energy asset. The order also includes a specialised deployment system and a sonar head designed fo
China’s manned submersible Jiaolong will attempt a 7,000-meter dive in the Mariana Trench, stated the State Oceanic Administration. This year the submersible managed to reach 5,188 meters below the sea during its deepest dive in the Pacific Ocean. Head of the State Oceanic Administration, Liu Cigui,
Nord Stream started today the first of two all-important underwater tie-ins of its second gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea. In this complex two-week-long offshore operation, two of the pipeline’s three sections will be joined together 80 metres underwater inside a hyperbaric welding habitat on th
