The 2,000 Megawatt (MW) power cable linking the British and French power markets has shut for a maintenance outage on Wednesday and Thursday…
Marlink, the world’s largest provider of maritime satellite communications, has teamed up with leading antenna manufacturer Sea Tel to provide satellite communications support to Project Kaisei for a third expedition. Set-up by Ocean Voyages Institute of California in 2008, Project Kaisei seeks viab
Mermaid Maritime Public Company Limited (“Mermaid”) announces that as part of the implementation of plans for its subsea engineering services division Mermaid Offshore Services Ltd. (“MOS”) to enhance its role as an international service provider in the subsea business, to deliver higher value added
Hyperdynamics Corporation today announced the signing of a 3D acquisition and processing contract with CGGVeritas to cover an area of approximately 4,000 square kilometers in its exploration block offshore Guinea. The value of the contract is approximately US $29.0 million gross. The survey is expec
iRobot Corp.,leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, is introducing a newly configured Seaglider UUV. Seaglider can now be outfitted with a larger set of fairings that significantly increases the UUV’s volume and mass payload capabilities. Payload mass is doubled over Seaglider’s or
WGP Exploration Ltd announces operations of the third Life of Field Seismic (LoFS) survey over the Valhall field in the North Sea. The survey was mobilised on August 23rd and is now nearing completion. In 2003 Life of Field Seismic was permanently installed with 120kms of Ocean Bottom Cable over the
Aubin, a leading independent supplier of specialist chemicals to the energy industry, has invested in new equipment and international expansion following the launch of ground-breaking products. The company develops, manufactures and supplies novel chemical solutions to the conventional and renewable
One of the artificial harbours that played a pivotal role in supplying the Allied forces who landed on D-day is to be surveyed using the latest hydrography software and survey techniques. In 1944, two artificial harbours, called Mulberries, were towed across the English Channel to help supply the Al
TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company, and Alcatel-Lucent announced a significant expansion to their joint maintenance program for submarine optical communication links throughout the Pacific basin. The Pacific End-to-End Maintenance Solution boosts the companies’ ability to maintain and repair
BGP announced the launching of a brand new 3D, 12 streamer seismic vessel, R/V BGP Prospector, at SEKWANG HEAVY INDUSTRY in Korea on 2 September 2011. This vessel is built specifically for the high-end 3D marine seismic market with towing capacity of 12 streamers each at 8,000m long with 100m stream
ION Geophysical Corporation announced that it has achieved a milestone 50th installation of its Orca® Command and Control system, on BGP’s 12-streamer Prospector. Since its introduction just six years ago, Orca has been used to manage towed streamer seismic data acquisition operations on nearly half
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin and a team of highly qualified and experienced Arctic researchers for a comprehensive study of the Hanna Shoal ecosystem in the Chukchi Se
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a contract by BG Norge, a subsidiary of BG Group, for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment to support the Knarr oil and gas field. The contract has a value of approximately $135 million in revenue to FMC Technologies. The
Per Hatlem has been appointed CEO of Apply ASA, following Per Bjørn Habbestad. Apply has over the last few years gained an attractive position in some of the fastest growing segments within the oil and gas industry. The company has about 2,000 employees and is targeting its business towards the acti
