The innovation project Neptune, supported by KIC InnoEnergy Iberia, launched for the first time its buoy into the sea for testing on last Wednesday, May 22nd, at the “Pont del Petroli” in Badalona, Spain. The main objective was to compare a fixed buoy’s wind measurement data -located at a nearby pier- with the sea located [...]
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CGG announced today that it has started acquiring Phase 1, known as Halten Terrace, of its Steppingstone BroadSeisTM 3D multi-client survey program offshore Norway. This is the first time CGG has acquired a 3D multi-client survey in the Norwegian North Sea using its proven broadband marine solution and the project has received high prefunding from [...]
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Offshore Marine Management Ltd (OMM), the UK’s independent services provider to the renewables, telecoms and hydrocarbon industries, has commenced a restructuring programme to centralise its core business and all support functions around its operational base in Cambridge. OMM has always been known as an adaptive, flexible and innovative company. The forthcoming changes to the previous [...]
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The Research Vessel Kaiyo has been deployed on a research cruise by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology since January 18, 2013. The long-term borehole observatory, which was installed by the Deep Sea Drilling Vessel Chikyu beneath the seafloor of the Kumano Basin off the Kii Peninsula in the projected focal region of [...]
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Shell Offshore Inc.’s (Shell) Olympus hull, the approximately 32,500 metric ton main body of the Olympus TLP, departed from South Korea to begin its two month journey to the U.S. Gulf Coast. After nearly 4 million man hours and a peak of approximately 1,300 workers on-site, construction of the Olympus hull was completed in November [...]
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NOAA Fisheries will begin a review of the status of a population of killer whales that is currently listed under the Endangered Species Act… Source: NOAA, November 27, 2012
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EMGS, the marine EM market leader, announces that the vessel BOA Galatea has completed 3D EM data acquisition under the one-year contract in Brazil. EMGS has now, in agreement with the relevant client, commenced a new 3D EM data acquisition project in Brazil with estimated completion in early January 2013. EMGS will provide further details [...]
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Hallin Marine, a Superior Energy Services company, announces the commencement of a new remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) support and inspection project in the Donghae gas field located off the coast of South Korea in the Sea of Japan. The contract includes deployment of the latest addition to Hallin’s fleet, the DP2 Kendal, which will be supporting [...]
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Today Shell celebrated the cutting of first steel for the game-changing Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility’s substructure with joint venture participants, Inpex and KOGAS, and lead contractor, the Technip Samsung Consortium, at Samsung Heavy Industries’ Geoje shipyard in South Korea. Shell’s Projects & Technology Director Matthias Bichsel commented: “We are cutting 7.6 tonnes [...]
As part of Statoil’s plans to increase the recovery rate on the Norwegian continental shelf from 50% to 60%, Statoil has commenced building Norway’s biggest research centre for improved recovery in Trondheim. Norway’s petroleum and energy minister Ola Borten Moe and CEO Helge Lund were present to celebrate the start of construction work on Statoil’s [...]
