In late May of 2011, MBARI and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) installed a new… (mbari) [mappress] Source: mbari, June 30, 2011
The Helix Well Containment Group (HWCG) announced that it is now capable to respond to a subsea well containment incident in water depths of up to 10,000 feet.The consortium previously announced its intention to achieve this milestone by mid-summer, and has achieved this ahead of schedule. Previousl
Charles Hendry, Minister of State for Energy along with Iain Wright, MP for Hartlepool visited the JDR Cable Systems facility at Hartlepool Docks this week, as the company showcased its increasingly significant contribution to the renewable energy sector. JDR has supplied subsea cables for many land
Schlumberger announced the acquisition of the remaining equity shares from Frank Mohn AS in Framo Engineering AS—a privately owned Norwegian company specialized in the business of developing, manufacturing and selling products and services relating to multiphase pumps and subsea pump-systems, multip
Newly developed technologies and booming commodities prices are driving the emergence of deep seabed mining projects internationally, with… (wsws) [mappress] Source: wsws, June 29, 2011;
Seajacks UK Limited (Seajacks) announced it has entered into a contract with WindMW GmbH (WindMW) for the installation of foundations and turbines for the Meerwind Project, which will be located off the coast of Germany in the North Sea near the island Helgoland. Seajacks will be providing services
STATS Group, has successfully completed a 20 inch valve change-out on the Yanga platform, offshore the Republic of Congo. STATS were contracted by Halliburton, on behalf of Total E&P, to provide pipeline isolation to replace a launcher valve located downstream between the Yanga export and Sendji pro
Cyta announces the agreement for the commercial operation of the Cyprus-Egypt segment of its private submarine cable subsystem ALEXANDROS. Following the successful activation of the Cyprus-France segment in August 2010, the Cyprus-Egypt segment is planned to be activated during summer 2011, compleme
LS Cable & System won a turn-key contract for a submarine cable project in the U.S. as the first in the cable industry of Korea. LS Cable & System announced on the 28th that the company had won a contract for a 35kV level submarine cable project from National Grid (a power grid operator […]
Hallin Marine, a Superior Energy Services company, has commenced a large-scale inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) project off the Malaysian peninsular. The contract centres on the oil rig Cendor MOPU which is undergoing an American Bureau of Shipping UWILD underwater survey for a second year i
Aker Solutions has acquired 70 percent of the Norwegian companies Ing. Harald Benestad AS (Benestad) and Phaze Technologies AS, leading suppliers of controls and power distribution products and advanced instruments for subsea applications. Benestad and Phaze Technologies, founded and owned by Harald
Schilling Robotics, LLC, experts in subsea systems, and Gregg Marine, Inc., experts in drilling and geotechnical testing services, announced the successful completion of their Factory Acceptance Testing on their new Seafloor Drill. Gregg will begin field testing of their drill in the waters offshore
Ashtead Technology, a market leading asset rental business, supplying specialist equipment to the offshore subsea oil and gas sector and the… Subsea UK [mappress] Source: Subsea UK , June 28, 2011;
Following the success of its shallow-water real-time imaging sonar, the Gemini 720i, Tritech has launched a deep-rated version, the Gemini 720id. Now available in 300m and 4000m versions, Gemini is a forward-looking sonar which utilises an array of transducers to provide a 120º field of view, for a
