Students from across the country competed with underwater robots for a national title during the Office of Naval Research (ONR)-funded 2012 National SeaPerch Challenge in Manassas Park, Va., April 11-13. The event brought together top middle and high school teams to compete with underwater robots th
Atlantis Resources Corporation, a world-leading tidal technology and project development company will test one of the world’s largest tidal turbines in the Bay of Fundy’s aggressive marine environment. Atlantis was one of five respondents to a request for proposal issued by the province last fall fo
A contract has been awarded to Kongsberg Maritime Ltd to conduct underwater noise studies for an offshore renewables project that could eventually lead to 400MW being installed in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth. The contract, awarded by MeyGen Limited, will involve Kongsberg Maritime Ltd cond
DONG Energy will be increasing its production of oil and gas via production from the Norwegian Oselvar field. Oselvar is DONG Energy’s second development as operator in Norway. The field was put into production Saturday 14 April. “We are now the operator of two Norwegian fields. This confirms our lo
Drydocks World, the established international player in ship repair, conversion and new building announced that it has delivered Self Elevating Platform Samrat to the owner, Mumbai, India-based AFCONS Infrastructure. The Platform was built at Drydocks World – Dubai shipyard. The Self Elevating Platf
In April 2011, Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS) signed two shipbuilding contracts with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. for the delivery of two Ramform vessels in 2013, with the option for one or two additional vessels to be delivered in 2015. The parties have now agreed to extend the exercise perio
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, announces the signing of a further contract to supply wellhead equipment for appraisal activity to an operating subsidiary of Bowleven pl
JFE Steel Corporation, in cooperation with Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc., is awarded an order for approximately 150,000 tons of DNV-grade-450 UOE line pipe for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. Wheatstone is one of Australia’s largest resource projects and involves the const
An innovative piece of underwater technology has just completed its first trials in the North Atlantic. Ecosse Subsea Systems’ wholly owned subsea trenching system SCAR 1 has just ploughed a 20-metre wide, one kilometre stretch of seabed to the West of Shetland to remove boulders prior to umbilical
CGGVeritas announced that, after negotiations with Total Exploration & Production Angola and Sonangol, it has been awarded a five-year contract for the 4D seismic processing and imaging of annual and biennial monitor surveys planned to take place offshore Angola. Over 6,000 km2 of seismic data from
Total has made significant progress in the past week towards stopping the gas leak on well G4 on its Elgin platform. This included preparatory work for its planned well control operation and the drilling of both a primary and a back-up relief well. Following an initial reconnaissance mission on Apri
The World Ocean Council’s second “Sustainable Ocean Summit” (SOS) will be held December 3-5 in Washington D.C. to further advance leadership and collaboration among the diverse ocean business community in addressing marine environment and sustainability challenges. The SOS is the only international,
Recently Imtech Marine, specialized in system integration, successfully completed three innovative new-build vessel projects in Singapore; Seven Borealis for Subsea 7, Rockpiper for a subsidiary of Royal Boskalis Westminster NV and Flintstone for Tideway, part of the DEME Group. The ships will all o
On 11 April 2012, the naming ceremony for new-build M/V Fugro Equator took place at Sattahip, Thailand. The delivery of M/V Fugro Equator will take place in Singapore during May 2012. M/V Fugro Equator is the third of Fugro’s FSSV65 series of dedicated survey vessels. Designed to Fugro specification
