Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® method of friction-grip wellhead engineering, announces that it has entered into a licensing, manufacturing, distribution, and agency agreement with Breda Energia S.p.A, a provider of
TGS announces that it has signed a letter of award with Dolphin Geophysical to charter the 12 streamer new build vessel, M/V Polar Duchess, for 3D multi-client projects in Europe during the 2012 summer season. The charter is expected to begin during first half of April and will last for approximatel
OceanServer Technology has unveiled a new “Base42” vehicle equipped with the L-3 Klein UUV-3500 High Resolution side scan sonar. This new Iver2 AUV model incorporates increased battery capacity for extended mission time, a higher capacity 120 GB Solid State drive for logging days of imagery, an exte
International Submarine Engineering Ltd. announces that the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has placed an order for an Explorer autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The vehicle will be used for marine search and recovery as well as survey operations. The JCG Explorer will also be supplied with a light-weigh
Brazil’s ministry of communications announced a new Brazilian submarine telecommunications cable network project, which will include a direct link to Angola through Cape Verde. State-owned telecommunications firm Telebrás prepared preliminary plans,which expect the cables to leave the Brazilian city
ProSep Inc. , dedicated to providing process solutions to the oil and gas industry, announced it was awarded a $1.4 million contract to supply M-I Swaco, a Schlumberger Company, with a proprietary CTour® produced water treatment system, for installation on an offshore platform operating on the Norwe
Blue Offshore, a specialist subsea construction contractor, have today announced that they have reached financial close on 28 October 2011 with ABN AMRO Bank N.V. The purpose of the financing is the manufacturing of their most recent cable installation system with delivery by 1st Quarter of 2012. Bl
The new acquisition and postprocessing software for EA sounders is available. The sidescan sonar mosaicing software has been developed extensively. The software is available in three versions: * Basic * Professional * Online * Additional-Tool: Spot The main tasks of EA SSM are: * Planning and perfor
The European Union’s plans to “complete” its single market in energy by 2014 will not be realized because of a lack of cross-border… Paul Whitehead (platts) [mappress] Source: platts , December 02, 2011; Image: BritNed
The world’s leading academics, experts and underwater archaeologists will look at ways to improve protection of underwater heritage at a meeting to be held at the Belgian Royal Library in Brussels from 13 to 14 December. The event will mark the tenth anniversary of UNESCOs Convention on the Protecti
E. ON contracted Fugro Consult GmbH to run a geotechnical exploration for offshore wind farm “Arkona-Becken Südost”, which E.ON is planning in the Baltic Sea. Work which took place in the summer and early fall of this year , has now been completed in water depths of approximately 22 to 37 m. Fugro u
A coalition of Pacific Civil Society organizations has called for a slow down in authorization of deep seabed mining in the Pacific Region. Procedures taken by numerous governments to legitimize and fast-track experimental seabed mining exploration as a development opportunity caused concerns among
UK-based specialist pipe measurement technology company Optical Metrology Services (OMS) Ltd has successfully completed an on-site internal… SubseaUK [mappress] Source: SubseaUK , December 02, 2011; Image: OMS
Forum Energy Technologies Inc., (Forum) announces the recent sale of a Sub-Atlantic™ Mojave observation ROV to GeoTeam S.r.l. in Rome, Italy. GeoTeam is a solutions based marine survey, construction support and geotechnical contractor with operations in the United Kingdom, Italy and the United Arab
