VERIPOS has recently secured an extension of its contract with Siem Meling Offshore DA, the Stavanger-based specialist shipping concern jointly owned by Siem Offshore and OH Meling. The three year contract extension is for the continued provision of precision GNSS positioning facilities to support S
Sonardyne International has taken its first order for a Dynamic Positioning Inertial Navigation System (DP-INS). Vantage Drilling’s new 12,000 feet-rated drillship, Dragonquest, is set become the first deep water drilling unit in the world to be equipped with the new system when it begins operations
VERIPOS, world leaders for supply of high-precision GNSS positioning support to the offshore oil and gas industry, has been awarded an extension to its contract with BP under which it will continue to provide precision positioning for the energy company’s turret monitoring system aboard its floating
DeepOcean Group Holding AS, an integrated provider of subsea engineering and trenching services, today announced that Statoil has awarded additional inspection, repair and maintenance contracts to two DeepOcean vessels. Statoil has signed a one-year option for the vessel Edda Fauna under its existin
Bjørn C. Bjørnsen, 39, has joined Ramboll as Business Development Director for Ramboll Oil & Gas in Norway. With a significant background in the oil & gas industry, he will play a key role in further expanding their business activities and project portfolio in Norway. Substantial industry experience
Statoil, together with its Luva field partners, has selected a Spar platform to develop the field. As a gas transport solution has also been decided, a major step has now been taken towards deep-water production in the Norwegian Sea. The Luva field, which is a deep-water pioneer in the Norwegian Sea
Hyperdynamics Corporation announced it resumed drilling operations on the Sabu-1 exploration well on January 29th in its concession offshore the Republic of Guinea in West Africa. Drilling recommenced from a point 2,304 meters subsea. The well is expected to encounter prospective upper Cretaceous sa
GE Oil & Gas surface and subsea production equipment, control systems and services have been selected for the Nexen Golden Eagle Area Development project in the United Kingdom’s central North Sea. Contracts with the project operator, Nexen Petroleum U.K. Limited, could total more than $170 million o
GE Oil & Gas has received contracts totaling more than $1 billion to supply a wide range of equipment and services for the Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Australia. A joint venture between INPEX (operator) and Total, the Ichthys LNG project includes one of the world’s largest LNG fac
The state-of-the art diving support vessel, the Seven Havila, owned by Subsea 7 and Havila Shipping, and designed and constructed by the Herøy-based Havyard Group AS, has achieved a world first in the number of divers working on the seabed. Gael Cailleaux, Vice President for Offshore Resources at Su
The Crown Estate has commissioned ABPmer to develop a regional wave and tidal model for the Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters strategic area. The model aims to develop a refined description of the marine energy resource as well as help to better understand the magnitude and extent of cumulative effec
PT IEV INDONESIA, a subsidiary of IEV Holdings Limited, received an award by PT Sempec Indonesia in January 2012 to provide Diamond Wire Cutting Services for the removal of a platform offshore North Madura Island, Indonesia. PT IEV will mobilise a crew of seven specialists to operate 24 hours and th
The State’s failure to ratify a UN treaty could lead to the plundering of the underwater cultural heritage. Lorna Siggins (irishtimes) [mappress] Source: irishtimes , January 30, 2012; Image: Odyssey Marine
A Swedish firm known as Ocean Explorer found a remarkable object, using their sonar technology, in the depths of the Baltic Sea. Their sonar images show that the object is an enormous cylinder with a 60-meter diameter and a 400 meter-long tail. While the Ocean Explorer team is clearly excited about
