Testing of Karoon Gas Australia Ltd’s Boreas-1 exploration well in the Browse basin has commenced. During the initial well clean up a maximum flow rate of 30.2 Mmscf/d was attained through a 40/64 choke, with a flowing wellhead pressure of 3300 psia. The flow rate was constrained by current surface equipment. The test is assessing [...]
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Today the laying of the submarine cable for the EstLink 2 electricity transmission connection between Finland and Estonia was started with marine cable pull-in operations in Aseri, Estonia. The marine cable will be laid in the Gulf of Finland in two stages. The new high voltage direct current connection is expected to come into operation [...]
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The construction work has begun on a submerged breakwater in the Kainan City harbor, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan on Saturday. Steel pipes measuring 3 meters wide and 30 meters long were buried in the seabed, Newsonjapan.com reports. “The breakwater will greatly reduce damage caused by tsunami,” stated an official at the regional development bureau. The [...]
Femern A/S has commenced the process of prequalification of contracting companies, thereby giving the international construction industry access for the first time to detailed information about the further course of the project. Over the next few months until 18 January 2013, the companies can prepare their request for prequalification and submit it to Femern A/S. [...]
Spectrum has commenced the next phase of its 2D campaign in Brazil to acquire an additional 6,000 km over the Foz do Amazonas basin. The program immediately follows on from the phase 1 survey of 15,000 km, which was completed successfully and ahead of time. The phase 2 survey will be completed in the fourth [...]
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Tocardo International, the leading producer of free-flow turbines, has commenced the manufacture of six free-flow water turbines for installation in Nepal and Japan. This follows the partnership agreements announced in March to supply 8MW of bi-directional turbine power over a three-year period to Japan and, in June, to supply 2.5MW of uni-directional turbine power to [...]
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Gas production will start in South Pars gas field phases 17 and 18 this winter, an official said, adding that the gas will then be injected to the national gas grid after treatment at gas processing plants of phases 15 and 16 in Assalouyeh, the onshore installations of the South Pars gas field. Managing-Director of [...]
Ocean Renewable Power Co., a Maine company is the first developer of tidal energy to get a commercial project on the grid in North America. According to The Chronicle Herald, the company’s turbine in Maine’s Cobscook Bay started producing electricity last week, however it will not officially start production for another few weeks. John Ferland, [...]
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A team of archaeologists and technicians assembled by NOAA yesterday started creating a three-dimensional sonar map to document the storm-exposed remains of the USS Hatteras, the only Union warship sunk in combat in the Gulf of Mexico during the Civil War. The Hatteras, an iron-hulled steamship the U.S. Navy converted into a gunboat, was lost [...]
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One of the first public wave energy testing systems in the United States began operation this week off the Oregon coast near Newport, and will allow private industry or academic researchers to test new technology that may help advance this promising form of sustainable energy. The Ocean Sentinel is a $1.5 million device developed by [...]
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