Western Australian shipbuilder Strategic Marine will expand its presence in the state’s North West, establishing a new facility at the SINWA site in Karratha. The operation has been established to meet the demands of Strategic Marine’s growing number of clients in the offshore oil and gas sector for
Chevron Brasil Upstream Frade Ltda is responding to oil seeps and a subsequent sheen that has occurred in the vicinity of the Chevron operated Frade project located 370 kilometers (230 miles) offshore north east of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in water depths of approximately 1200 meters (3800 feet). Base
After six years of design and testing, MBARI scientists have a sophisticated new tool for studying the effects of ocean acidification on deep-sea animals. This complex system, the Free-Ocean Carbon Enrichment (FOCE) experiment, is the only experiment in the world that allows researchers to study oce
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has elected David K. Lawrence as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Oceaneering, effective January 1, 2012. Mr. Lawrence joined Oceaneering in June 2005 as Assistant General Counsel and has served as Associate Genera
Wood Group PSN has been awarded a new five-year contract, with an option to extend for a further five years, from Talisman Energy (UK) Limited, a subsidiary of Talisman Energy Inc, to provide Operations and Maintenance Services on all 11 of Talisman’s UK offshore assets and at the Flotta Oil Termina
A leading subsea training centre has announced a new course for ROV professionals. The Underwater Centre in Fort William has developed the ‘Fibre-optic Termination’ training course, specifically from feedback received from the industry on new demands being placed on employees. The two day course tak
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. announces the signing of an exclusive five-year supply agreement with Canyon Offshore . Under the agreement, Forum will be the exclusive provider to Canyon of work-class ROVs and Trenchers. This agreement was initiated with the award of two Perry XLX-200 work-class RO
Columbus Networks and TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, announced they will partner to deploy a 40G upgrade in the CFX-1 undersea cable system. The upgrade will allow for an increase in the final design capacity in the CFX-1 syst
The new multi-purpose research vessel R/V Ramon Margalef, which belongs to the Spanish Oceanographic Institute (IEO), was undergoing sea trials when the Science Ministry decided to move it to the Canary Islands to follow up on the activity of the volcano on El Hierro Island. The vessel was only deli
Offshore Middle East has announced the inclusion of the inaugural Student Paper Program at the 2013 event taking place in Doha, Qatar on January 21-23, 2013. The purpose of the program is to showcase regional engineering talent and student development in regional universities. The program also serve
Leading international oilfield service company Expro announced today its Latin America team has been awarded a new multi-million dollar wireline contract with Petrobras in Brazil. As part of the four-year contract, Expro will provide 20 packages of slickline equipment and personnel to operate them.
Hyperdynamics Corporation announced the commencement of its deep water 3D seismic survey off the coast of the Republic of Guinea. Using the survey vessel Oceanic Endeavour, seismic contractor CGGVeritas, will acquire 3D seismic data in a deep water area covering approximately 4,000 square kilometers
Zaliv commenced construction of the next order of Ulstein (Norway): in the graving dock of shipyard the laying up of the hull of Inspection Maintenance and repair offshore vessel took place. On November 7 the second block was installed in the dock thus making the total weight of installed structures
Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute scientists have tackled various barriers to robots that can travel autonomously in the deep ocean. This four-part series examines current MIT efforts to refine AUVs’ artificial intelligence, navigation
