International carriers continue to play an integral role in providing connectivity, diversity and elevating the region’s telecommunications efficiency level when they formed a consortium for the establishment of the Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) submarine cable system. The collaboration was made official when the consortium members - Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) (Malaysia), Vodafone Group (UK), [...]
Subsea 7 has extended the contract for Skandi Seven with one year from April 2013. Skandi Seven is a contruction and flexlay vessel, capable of operating in water depths up to 3,000 meters. The 2008 built vessel is equipped with a 250 mt crane and 2 ROVs. The DOF Subsea Group is a specialist subsea [...]
MEO Australia Limited advises that MEO and Eni Australia Ltd (Eni) have mutually agreed to defer the election deadline for the Blackwood well by one month to 4th February 2013. Under the Farm-in Agreement (FIA) dated 17th May 2011, Eni had a period of 365 days from the completion of the Blackwood 3D seismic survey [...]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has extended the public comment period until Dec. 31, 2012 for those who want to submit comments on the Deepwater Wind proposal to construct five wind turbine generators and do other work off the southeast coast of Block Island, Rhode Island. The original 45-day comment period was scheduled to [...]
TGS commences the acquisition of multi-client 3D seismic data in the Hoop Fault Complex area of the Barents Sea. This survey is an extension of the previously announced Hoop Fault Complex survey and will add 1,800 km2 to the existing data in the area. Approximately 500 km2 of the survey are infill in the Northern [...]
Statoil has received consent for extended use of the facilities on the Norne field beyond design life up to and including 31 December 2021. Norne is an oil field belonging to production licence 128. The field is located in the Norwegian Sea in blocks 6608/10 and 6608/11, and came online in November 1997. Norne lies [...]
