Barrage really has been “studied to death”, but Select Committee backs alternative approach and calls on the Government to establish a new public governance to proactively manage Severn energy resources. In a damning report the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee has killed off any chance that a Severn Barrage will be built across the [...]
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Aker Solutions delivered the steel frame for the world’s first subsea gas compression facility to be installed at the Statoil-operated Åsgard field. The installation, set to come on stream in 2015, will enable the recovery of an additional 280 million barrels of oil equivalents. The 1,800-tonne steel frame will in the next two weeks be [...]
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CARIS announced its 15th International User Group Conference, CARIS 2014, will be held in Brest, France from June 2 – 5, 2014. The four-day user group conference will be the world’s largest gathering of CARIS users, providing an invaluable opportunity for new and existing users to congregate. The theme of the conference will focus on [...]
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Reef Subsea today announced its subsea services division, based in Bergen, Norway, has secured a third subsea construction contract in West Africa and is now sending a second vessel to the region. The project, for regional offshore contractor Stapem Offshore, will include cable lay duties on Palanca Cable Lay Campaign in Block 3, Angola. The [...]
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On 4 and 10 April 2013, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of management of working environment factors, material handling and emergency preparedness in the Martin Linge development, with an emphasis on the facility’s topsides. The objective of the audit activity in this phase of the project is assessing whether Total’s [...]
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In May, Hydrex diver/technician teams carried out underwater stern tube seal repairs on a 292-meter, 50,644 grt container vessel in Singapore. The ship was suffering from an oil leak, making a fast repair necessary. Using one of the company’s flexible mobdocks the team was able to carry out the entire operation on-site and underwater, saving [...]
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Ithaca Energy Inc. (“Ithaca” or the “Company”) announces the commencement of development drilling operations on the Stella field, with the first well on the field having been spudded using the Ensco 100 heavy duty jack-up rig. The initial campaign involves the drilling and completion of four production wells on the Stella field prior to start-up. [...]
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On 27 May 2013 Karoon signed an agreement with CGGVeritas Services SA for a marine 3D seismic survey (Chrysalids) over permit WA‐482‐P in the offshore northern Carnarvon Basin. The survey is for a total of approximately 2,386 square kilometres. This survey is to delineate leads and other prospects identified on existing 2D and 3D seismic [...]
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Subsea 7 is to establish a new office in northern Norway, in Tromsø. Following its award for the pipelay and subsea installation contract for Statoil’s pioneering Aasta Hansteen project earlier this year, Subsea 7 sees increasing activity in the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. With an office in Tromsø, the company will have a [...]
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Recently teams of Hydrex diver/technicians performed propeller blade croppings on several vessels across Europe. In Kalundborg, Denmark the four propeller blades of a 170-meter bulk carrier were cropped. A similar operation was carried out on a 330-meter cruise vessel in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Having developed different procedures for different kinds of damage, Hydrex is equipped and [...]
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