Category archives for: Asia Pacific

Tangiers Executes Farm-Out Agreement on Two Australian Exploration Permits

Tangiers Executes Farm-Out Agreement on Two Australian Exploration Permits

Tangiers Petroleum Limited announces the execution of its Farm-Out Agreement with CWH Resources and Ansbachall Pty Limited covering two of Tangiers’ Australian exploration permits. The Farm-Out Agreement covers the permits WA-442-P and NT/P81, which are located in the southern Bonaparte Basin, about 250km south-west of Darwin. The participating interests of the parties from the date [...]

Australia: Deakin University Acquires CARIS HIPS and SIPS

Australia: Deakin University Acquires CARIS HIPS and SIPS

Deakin University, one of Australia’s leading universities, has acquired CARIS HIPS and SIPS as part of the Deakin University Warrnambool Marine and Aquaculture Science Research Initiative, which aims at boosting marine research and teaching in the region. The Marine and Freshwater Sciences research group focuses on the ecology and management of coastal marine and estuarine [...]

New Zealand: NIWA Implements CARIS Bathy DataBASE to Manage Bathymetric Assets

New Zealand: NIWA Implements CARIS Bathy DataBASE to Manage Bathymetric Assets

CARIS Asia Pacific recently travelled to ‘Windy Wellington’ in order to provide training and consultation to the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) for the implementation of CARIS Bathy DataBASE to allow them to efficiently store and manage their bathymetric assets. NIWA conducts leading environmental science to enable the sustainable management of natural [...]

New Singapore Service Centre to Support Acteon Offshore Operations

New Singapore Service Centre to Support Acteon Offshore Operations

A custom-built service centre at the new Offshore Marine Centre in the Tuas industrial area of Singapore will boost Acteon operations and improve its customer service in South East Asia. Due to open in July 2013, the new $11 million, 10,000-m2 Acteon Singapore Operations Centre will support the offshore operations of Acteon companies across the [...]

MacGregor Offshore Cranes for Subsea 7′s New Dive Support Vessel

MacGregor Offshore Cranes for Subsea 7′s New Dive Support Vessel

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured a new contract for one 120-tonne active heave-compensated (AHC) MacGregor offshore crane and two 10-tonne offshore cranes from South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI). The cranes will be installed on a new 123m specialised dive support vessel being built for UK-based Subsea 7, a construction and services contractor [...]

French Deputy Chief of Navy Visits Carnegie’s Wave Energy Facility in Australia

French Deputy Chief of Navy Visits Carnegie’s Wave Energy Facility in Australia

Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited welcomed Vice Admiral Stéphane Verwaerde, Deputy Chief of the French Navy, to its private Wave Energy Research Facility yesterday in Western Australia. Carnegie’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr Michael Ottaviano and Project Development Officer, Mr Tim Sawyer, gave the Vice Admiral and his party a tour of the Fremantle [...]

First Oil Flows from Talisman’s HST/HSD Development Offshore Vietnam

First Oil Flows from Talisman’s HST/HSD Development Offshore Vietnam

Talisman Energy Inc. has announced first oil production from its Hai Su Trang and Hai Su Den (HST/HSD) development, offshore Vietnam. Gross production is expected to reach 15,000 bbls/day once the facilities are fully commissioned. “We are delighted to have achieved first oil ahead of schedule and under budget,” said Paul Blakeley, EVP Asia-Pacific. “This [...]

Australia: Production Begins from Fletcher Finucane Ahead of Schedule

Australia: Production Begins from Fletcher Finucane Ahead of Schedule

Santos announced that oil production has commenced ahead of schedule and on budget from the $490 million Fletcher Finucane project in the Carnarvon Basin offshore Western Australia. The Fletcher Finucane development was sanctioned in January 2012 and consists of a three-well subsea tie-back to the existing Santos-operated Mutineer Exeter floating production, storage and offloading facility. [...]

Advanced Navigation Launches Sublocus Underwater Navigation System

Advanced Navigation Launches Sublocus Underwater Navigation System

Advanced Navigation has announced the release of their Sublocus underwater navigation systems. Sublocus is an underwater inertial navigation system that features high accuracy north seeking fibre optic gyroscopes and accelerometers with a GPS receiver and pressure depth sensor. These are fused together in Advanced Navigation’s revolutionary fusion algorithm to deliver positional accuracy of 0.08% of [...]

Eco Wave Power Expands to China

Eco Wave Power Expands to China

During last week, Eco Wave Power’s founders, Mr. David Leb (Founder and CEO) and Ms. Inna Braverman (Co-Founder & Marketing Director) arrived to Kempinski Hotel in Beijing in order to sign an initial collaboration agreement between EWP and a Chinese Governmental fund. The agreement was executed in an official signing ceremony, attended by high ranked [...]





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