Chevron Corporation reiterated that its efforts to respond to oil seeps and a subsequent sheen in the vicinity of its Chevron- operated Frade project have been successful. Since receiving approval from the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum (ANP) late Sunday, Chevron Brazil immediately commence
Farstad Shipping has been awarded the following charter contract: AHTS Far Senior (1998, UT 722L, 18.900 BHP) has been contracted by Petrobras in Brazil for a 4 year period. Petrobras has the option to extend the contract with an additional 4 years. The contract includes both anchor handling- and RO
Neptune Marine Services Ltd announced that it has been contracted by Hess Exploration Australia Pty Limited for the provision of geotechnical and geophysical surveys for the Equus Gas Fields Development Project, located 180km north of Exmouth on the North West Shelf of Western Australia. Neptune has
Reef Subsea AS announced that they have signed two five-year charter agreements for two newly-built dynamically positioned subsea construction vessels – Neptune Despina and Neptune Larissa – from Neptune Offshore AS. Simultaneously Neptune Subsea AS, the ship owning company of the vessels, welcomes
Irish tidal technology specialist OpenHydro and the leading French utility company EDF joined forces on this project. It is a “gigantic” project off the coastline of Paimpol-Bréhat in Brittany, France. OpenHydro will supply four 2-MW tital turbines for the project. The turbines are being installed 3
A decision has been made to maintain the current shareholder structure at IHC Merwede. The IHC Merwede Supervisory Board – in addition to all of the current shareholders – is comfortable with the financial strength of the company for the next year. With the support of JP Morgan and Rabobank M&A, IHC
Kenya is ready for the fourth undersea fibre optic cable connection wich is scheduled to land in upcoming year. France Telecom, is spending 14 million euros to boost the “Lower Indian Network 2” (LION 2) submarine cable to the LION cable to Kenya via Mayotte. Along with the LION and LION2 cables, Fr
Tata Communications, a global communications service provider that owns and operates the world’s largest subsea cable network, and Nawras, Oman’s customer-friendly communications provider, today announce the launch of the Oman to India TGN-Gulf cable. The undersea cable will be used to instantaneous
Careful monitoring before, during and after the impending deep seabed mineral mining off the shores of Papua New Guinea will provide the hard data that will guide the responsible deep seabed mining practices of the future. This is the view of Dr Charles (Chuck) Fisher, Professor of Biology, Penn Sta
A local college on Monday unveiled the first submerged tidal current generator in the country, which it said marked an important step… By Huang Chiao-wen and Jamie Wang (focustaiwan) [mappress] Source: focustaiwan, November 15, 2011
GO announces that the submarine cable damaged by third parties on the 5th November has been completely repaired, following round-the-clock efforts by a specialised repair vessel, which is contracted on a standby-basis for such emergencies. The incident is now in the hands of international authoritie
Anbaric Transmission has taken the first step toward building New England’s first offshore transmission truck line, designed… (platts) [mappress] Source: platts , November 15, 2011
NKT’s revenue development for 3rd quarter 2011 was in line with expectations. Earnings increased by 15%, positively influenced by satisfactory results for both Nilfisk-Advance and NKT Flexibles. For NKT Cables, the factory in Cologne showed improved productivity but continued to impact earnings nega
TETRA Technologies, Inc. announced that its board of directors has increased the size of the board from nine to ten members and has appointed Thomas R. Bates, Jr. to fill the vacancy created by the increase. Mr. Bates will serve as an independent director. Stuart M. Brightman, TETRA’s President and
