Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that it has secured a contract from Saipem to supply umbilicals for the Burullus West Delta Deep Marine Phase IXa development located offshore Egypt. The order consists of ten subsea production control umbilicals totaling approximately 84 kilometers (52.2 miles) in length and two electrical power cables totaling approximately 55 kilometers (34.2 [...]
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Eni was awarded a deepwater exploration block (Block 9) in the Eastern Mediterranean of Egypt within the EGAS 2012 International bid round in Cairo (Egypt). Through its fully owned affiliate, IEOC, Eni will act as Operator of Block 9 with 100% equity. Block 9, also named Shorouk Offshore, which covers an area of 3,765 square [...]
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Egypt’s coastguard caught three divers cutting an undersea internet cable and causing disruptions to online services on Wednesday, Telegraph reports. The damage was caused on South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) cable which links France to Singapore, with branches connecting telecommunication companies in Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, [...]
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![Dana Gets Go Ahead for Nefertiti Field Development (Egypt)]()
Dana Petroleum has been given the go-ahead by the Egyptian government to further develop the Nefertiti oil field in the Gulf of Suez following the successful completion of an appraisal well. The Aberdeen-based oil and gas company, in partnership with INPEX, successfully drilled the exploration well Nefertiti-2X at the end of 2012. The well tested [...]
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Egypt’s National Institute of Oceanology and Fisheries (NIOF) has chosen a Tiger ROV from Saab Seaeye as their preferred vehicle to undertake a range of studies in the Mediterranean. The NIOF chose the Tiger over other makes of ROV as it can handle the strong currents of the Mediterranean and dive to 1000 metres. They [...]
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Gulf Bridge International (GBI), the Middle East’s first carrier neutral regional network, and Xtera Communications Inc. (Xtera), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, announced the full 100G connectivity between Zafarana cable landing station in Egypt on the Red Sea and Milan Point-of-Presence (PoP) in Italy. Xtera deployed its multi-purpose Nu-Wave Optima™ platform in [...]
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On Wednesday a malfunction on the internet cable IMEWE caused the internet blackout which continued on Thursday as well, according to dailystar.com. Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui stated: “There is a crisis due to an internet blackout and we are unable to fix the broken cable near Alexandria, [Egypt]”. The Minister added that the submarine fiber-optic [...]
TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology has completed construction of the TGN-EA (Jeddah) and TGN-Gulf undersea cables for Tata Communications. TGN-EA (Jeddah) connects Saudi Arabia, Egypt and India, while TGN-Gulf links Oman, India, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain. Both TGN-EA (Jeddah) and TGN-Gulf [...]
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Sonardyne International Ltd has received an order valued at over £2.1 million from international oil and gas turnkey contractor, Saipem. The order includes six SPRINT systems and associated acoustic positioning equipment making it Sonardyne’s largest sale of acoustically aided inertial navigation technology to date. SPRINT (Subsea Precision Reference Inertial Navigation Technology) will be deployed in [...]
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![du Repairs One Undersea Cable Cut in Suez, Egypt]()
The telecommunications service provider du has reported that one of the two under-sea cable cuts reported earlier this week, was fixed and connection is renewed. “We are happy to report some updates on the cable cuts matter as we received a confirmation from operators of SMW3 that the cut has been restored.” states du. [...]
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