The UK Hydrographic Office internal celebration of this year’s World Hydrography Day took place on Friday 16 September. Every year the International Hydrographic Organization and its member states’ Hydrographic Offices celebrate World Hydrography Day. This is an important opportunity to increase the
Norway-based boat handling system and specialised davit supplier Vestdavit has been contracted by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry on behalf of Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) to design and supply extra-long outreach workboat/lifeboat/FRC davits for PGS’s 5th generation Ramform new building seismic vessels. T
A Turkish oil exploration vessel left the Aegean port of Izmir on Friday to carry out surveys off northern Cyprus amid tensions with Greek…
Seen as ideal for shallow water wind turbine construction work, four specially designed leaner versions of the Saab Seaeye Cougar XT ROV … SubseaUK [mappress] Source: SubseaUK, September 23, 2011;
Mindef invites tender for supply and maintenance of underwater acoustic positioning systems for Toulon area in France. Value of tender is between 200,000 and 2,000,000 EUR, and project period is 48 months from date of contract award. Tender deadline is 3.11.2011. Underwater Acoustic Positioning Syst
Five Oceans Services GmbH announced that the Company’s shareholder and board of directors approved a name change to Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH. Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC), formerly Five Oceans Services, is an experienced submarine cable and subsea umbilical installation, repair and maintena
Houlder has announced senior appointments within its Oil and Gas team. Garry Kennie has been appointed as Project Director, Subsea and Drilling whilst Kinsley Weatherhead has been appointed Project Director, Marine. Both Garry and Kinsley are based in the Houlder office in Aberdeen. Garry, who has w
NASA’s new Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface, providing an early glimpse of the mission’s anticipated discoveries. Aquarius, which is aboard the Aquarius/SAC-D (Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas) observatory, is making NASA’s first space ob
SapuraCrest Petroleum Bhd unit TL Offshore Sdn Bhd has issued two letters of award to Cosco Nantong Shipyard Co Ltd to build two ships … (thestar) [mappress] Source: thestar, September 23, 2011;
A salt water pipeline leak offshore Alabama has forced ExxonMobil to halt gas production in the Mobile Bay area of the Gulf of Mexico…
While NASA makes plans to send man to Mars, there’s still so much we don’t know about our home planet – particularly when it comes to what… By Darren Quick (gizmag) [mappress] Source: gizmag, September 23, 2011;
BIRNS, Inc., ISO 9001:2008 certified global leader in the design and manufacturing of high performance connectors, penetrators, custom cable assemblies and lights for the subsea and commercial diving markets, has introduced the most versatile helmet light mount in the diving industry: the new BIRNS
This week, Deepwater Wind began a series of intensive marine surveys as part of the company’s ongoing, comprehensive environmental assessment to support development of the 30-megawatt Block Island Wind Farm – a project that remains on track to be the nation’s first offshore wind farm – and the assoc
Statoil has received consent to use the gas pipeline, Troll P12 Pipeline. The Troll field is located about 63 kilometres west of Kollsnes, and consists of production licences 054 and 085. The P12 gas pipeline was installed in April 2011 by Solitaire, the world’s largest pipe-laying vessel. The pipel
