Recently the owners of a Container vessel consulted FN Diving regarding heavy vibrations of the vessel’s propeller. FN Diving team attended the vessel for an underwater inspection while offloading in Amsterdam port. The underwater inspection revealed 4 damaged propeller blades due to ice damage on a
InterMoor, an Acteon company, can now demonstrate that its facility in Morgan City, La., complies with environmental management legislation and continuously works to minimize the environmental impacts of its work. The facility was accredited in February to the ISO 14001 standard for environmental ma
Gardline will again be exhibiting at the Oceanology conference and Exhibition at ExCel in London from 13th to 15th March. However this time, following extensive market research, and in order to present a more coordinated look both internally and to the customer base, they have re-branded the constit
Octanex N.L announces that the last of three new 3D seismic surveys, the Ascalon 3D survey in WA-407-P, has been completed and the acquisition vessel, “Voyager Explorer”, has been demobilised. These new 3D seismic surveys have been acquired within three of the Company’s six Southern Bonaparte Basin
Unique Maritime Group, one of the world’s leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution providers, announces its participation in Oceanology International, being held at London Excel, from the 13th until the 15th of March 2012. Harry Gandhi, CEO of Unique Maritime Group, commented on UMG’s
Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. announced that it has signed a contract with Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard in Singapore for the construction of its newbuild semisubmersible well intervention vessel previously announced by Helix in February. Owen Kratz, Helix’s Chairman and CEO, sta
TERNA SpA has announced the invitation for tenders for subsea cable services in duration of 18 months from the date of contract award. The official language for tenders is Italian. The scope of work will be comprised of supplying and laying of the submarine and terrestrial 150 kV HVAC “Capri – Torre
Leighton Offshore announced that following the successful hydrostatic testing of the onshore and offshore pipeline systems and subsequent final commissioning of the offshore export facility, crude oil was now flowing to a single point mooring (SPM) installed under the $799m Iraq Crude Oil Export Exp
Long-term impacts of turbine noise on the marine life are still poorly understood and the lack of data might have unfavorable impacts on offshore wind projects, reports Vineyard Gazette. However, certain studies have provided some clues about how marine life might be affected by underwater turbine n
Nylacast has dived deep and exhibited at Subsea Tieback 2012 held from the 6th to the 8th of March in Galveston, Texas. Nylacasts dedicated Offshore, Oil & Gas technical engineers; Flavio Olivarez and Howard Bradfield, were on hand at the event to provide advice and technical information directly to
The annual Association of Marine Scientific Industries (AMSI) Business Person of the Year Award has been presented to Brendan Hyland, Founder and Chairman of WFS Technologies, by Peter French, Chairman of the Society of Maritime Industries (and Chief Executive of BMT Group Ltd). The award was presen
The protection of the Baltic Sea will be further expanded: this spring, Nord Stream AG intends to establish an international nature conservation foundation for the Baltic Sea. This is a further outcome of the agreement reached in 2010 between Nord Stream AG and the environmental associations WWF and
Spectrum, in partnership with CGGVeritas and GeoData Ventures, have commenced a broadband 2D Multi-Client seismic survey offshore West Timor, Indonesia, utilizing CGGVeritas’ state-of-the-art BroadSeisTM technology. The largely prefunded program will cover 3,340 km over the Timor trough, with CGGVer
Yan Kai, the chief engineer of China’s manned deep-sea submersible research vessel Jiaolong, confirmed that the craft will reach a depth of 7,000 meters below sea level this summer, thereby meeting its design goals. The submersible has successfully completed all of its previous trial runs, carrying
