By some estimates, a third of Earth’s organisms live in our planet’s rocks and sediments, yet their lives are almost a complete mystery. This week, the work of microbiologist James Holden of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and colleagues shines a light into this dark world. In the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [...]
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Located on mid-ocean ridges, hot vent ecosystems are characterized by extreme environments and unique organisms, which don’t depend on sunlight – a rare feat! Photosynthesis is the way plants convert energy to food, but deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities are sustained by microorganisms, which carry out a process known as chemosynthesis. This allows the bacteria and [...]
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![T.D. Williamson Completes Subsea Hot Tap Intervention Operation in Mediterranean Sea (Egypt)]()
T.D. Williamson SA (TDW) announced that it has completed a subsea hot tap intervention operation to facilitate the successful tie-in of a new gas pipeline to an existing pipeline. The new pipeline forms part of the Burullus Gas Company’s West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) Phase VII development project in the Mediterranean Sea. The operation was [...]
![Nemo Wins Contract From Statoil for Delivery of Two Hot Tap Gooseneck Spools (Norway)]()
Nemo Engineering, the subsea unit in Apply, has been awarded a contract with Statoil Petroleum AS for the delivery of two 12’’ Hot Tap Gooseneck Spools on the Åsgard Subsea Compression Project, with the purpose to ensure an extended lifetime and increased exploitation for the Åsgard field in the North Sea. The contract value [...]
