Subsea buoyancy, insulation and elastomer product specialist, Balmoral Offshore Engineering, announced the opening of its new test facility during the annual Offshore Technology Conference in Houston this week. The Balmoral Subsea Test Centre, located at company HQ in Aberdeen, offers a comprehensiv
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of the Fossekall-Dompap Marine Installation and Pipelay Contract with an approximate value of $180 million from Statoil, close to the Norne FPSO in the Norwegian Sea. The contract scope includes transport and installation of 2 of 4 slots Integrated Template Structur
The Zohrab Veliyev exploration vessel run by Kaspmornefteflot of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan has been sent to the Nursultan area… (News) [mappress] Source: news,May 05, 2011;
CARIS, the world’s leading marine GIS organization, has released a 64-bit version of its comprehensive hydrographic processing software HIPS and SIPS. HIPS and SIPS 7.1 with 64-bit support will provide users who have access to a 64-bit computer the ability to handle large multibeam sonar datasets ev
The welding work on the Nord Stream Baltic Sea gas pipeline is to begin at a depth of 80 metres off Hanko… (hs) [mappress] Source: hs,May 05, 2011;
Schilling Robotics, LLC, experts in subsea systems, announced the order for a new 200shp, 4,000-meter rated UHD™ ROV system from Global Industries for delivery in the third quarter of 2011. The UHD™ system will be supplied with a 1,500-meter capacity XE™ TMS, launch and recovery system, and topside
BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT) has patented a strain measurement system and unique attachment scheme that can be integrated into the insulation and anti-corrosion layers on ultra deep water Steel Catenary Risers (SCRs). This technology was developed because production SCRs typically have thick
Paradigm Flow Solutions launched patented technology to tackle the persistent industry challenge of restrictions and blockages in subsea pipelines, taking the treatment to the topside for the very first time. Paradigm also revealed at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston that it has just la
India plans to spend Rs.500 crore in developing a series of specialized vessels capable of scouring deep ocean floors for minerals, metals… (livemint) [mappress] Source: livemint,May 05, 2011;
Nexans, a worldwide leading expert in the cable industry, has been awarded a 4.8 million euro contract by Norske Shell to supply the 6.5 km infield umbilical for the Ormen Lange North Field project. The Ormen Lange natural gas field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf started production in 2007. This
Australian Greens Leader, Senator Bob Brown, has returned from Papua New Guinea vowing to push for an Australian Senate inquiry into the… (radioaustralia) [mappress] Source: radioaustralia ,May 05, 2011;
NSRI welcomes a wew PhD Student, Beenish Ayaz, who is about to begin her research project “Dynamically Reconfigurable Underwater Wireless Sensor Networking” Dynamically Reconfigurable Underwater Wireless Sensor Networking Land-based wireless sensor networking (WSN) is a highly active field of resear
Nord Stream AG announces that all three sections of its first 1,224 kilometre gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea have now been laid and will be joined together underwater off the coast of Finland and Sweden in the summer. The new pipeline system will start transporting natural gas from Russia direc
Inventor of the Bowflex®, Tessema Shifferaw introduces The Shifferaw Oil Ocean Leak Prevention System, SOOLPS, guaranteed to put both environmentalists and oil companies at ease. Shifferaw designed this system in response to the lackluster solutions for the disastrous Gulf oil spill. Now, a year lat
