At 8 & 9 December 2011, the Business Offshore Conference took place in Hamburg. Organized by Schiff&Hafen I Ship&Offshore, the first edition of the conference welcomed 140 delegates at the Hotel Hafen. The group of delegates consisted of German offshore professionals as well as delegates coming from
Prof. Dr. Ulf Riebesell from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) was honoured with the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation. For his research on the effects of global change on marine ecosystems Riebesell receives one of the most valuable scientific prizes in the world.
The UMass Dartmouth School of Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) and the University of Sao Paulo Institute of Oceanography (IOUSP) have… (southcoasttoday) [mappress] Source: southcoasttoday , December 13, 2011
Cove Energy pic, the AIM quoted upstream oil and gas company, announces an update on activities in their 8.5 per cent participating interest in the Mozambique Offshore Area 1 block (“Rovuma Area 1”). Cove reports that the latest appraisal well, Lagosta 2 (7.4km north of Lagosta 1), has spudded on 11
Reservoir Group has strengthened its portfolio of completion and production services with the announcement that two well intervention specialists have joined the ‘club’. The Tool Company, located in Assen, The Netherlands and the Aberdeen-based firm, Wellbore Intervention bring their expertise in co
Statoil has awarded Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies a contract worth NOK 150 million over three years to develop the world’s first integrated environmental monitoring system (EM) for oil and gas activities. Statoil currently employs several environmental monitoring methods at its installations, mai
3sun Group, a specialist provider of products and services to the energy industry has announced the opening of a new base in Westhill, near Aberdeen, on the back of a number of key contract wins in the North Sea. The company has recently secured contract wins totalling approximately £7million to car
Yesterday marked a major watershed for international connectivity between Ireland and the UK as Sea Fibre Networks (SFN), owner and operator of Europe’s most advanced sub-sea telecoms network CeltixConnect launched the first major European sub-sea cable for eleven years. The 450 foot Cable Innovator
From 13 December, 6 am CET to 15 December, 6 pm CET, the gas flow through the Nord Stream Pipeline will be temporarily suspended due to planned maintenance works at Gazprom’s connecting pipeline. During the shutdown time, Nord Stream will also carry out maintenance activities at the installations on
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has signed a contract with BP for the manufacture and supply of additional subsea equipment for its ongoing deepwater projects offshore Angola. FMC’s scope of supply includes four subsea trees, control systems, wellheads, tubing hangers, well jumpers and subs
Researchers studying microbes that live near deep-sea hydrothermal vents have discovered a living, biological ‘power plant’ according to… Bryan Nelson (mnn) [mappress] Source: mnn , December 12, 2011
Subsea 7, a global leader in seabed-to-surface engineering construction, and services, today announces the award of two engineering and installation contracts from Shell for the Cardamom and West Boreas Projects in the Gulf of Mexico. Subsea 7’s scope of work on West Boreas is the installation of a
A remote-control robot submarine lost by university researchers has washed up on a beach on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast… By Richard Chirgwin (theregister) [mappress] Source: theregister , December 12, 2011; Image: usyd
Kenya is mapping seven deep sea oil blocks as it steps up the hunt for the black gold, an energy official has said… (ce) [mappress] Source: ce, December 12, 2011
