HOUSTON — Getting past sucurity to your gate for your flight with an American-based airline just got a little more challanging. Starting August 15th, all new United States-based flight reservations must be booked under the exact name that appears on the form of the government identification that will be used when traveling, according to the [...]
TAGBILARAN CITY — After a long advocacy group supported getting a decompression chamber for emergancy medical use, local government leaders are now seriously planning for a hyperbaric chamber. Through the Provincial Tourism Council (PTC), Governor Erico Aumentado revealed that the plan is to procure the needed decompression chamber at the newly opened Bohol Medical Care [...]
Subsea 7 secured a contract for installation of flexibles and umbilical jumpers and tie-in/testing work at Maersk Oil’s Gryphon South and Tullich fields, in the UK sector of the North Sea. The Subsea 7 work scope is to install flexibles and umbilical jumpers and complete tie-in and testing of two wells in the Gryphon and [...]
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Veolia ES Industrial Services has recently delivered a design-built, 1,000-foot (305-m) saturation dive system to Dulam Subsea Solutions of Dubai. Veolia designed and built the system at its in-house manufacturing facility in Neenah, Wisconsin over an 18-month period. It was delivered to the customer in early August. Veolia’s engineering staff [...]
by Stephen Ellis The offshore industry’s 2nd quarter results saw gloomy forecasts for offshore suppliers, jackups, and midwater rigs. Negative customer expectations surrounding commodity prices and difficult well economics mean lower demand for offshore drilling. Drillers are trying to tighten their markets by stacking rigs, but day rates are down 30%-40% for most jackups, and we expect [...]
HOUSTON — Deep Marine Technology’s 292-foot vessel DMT Emerald has installed a purpose built suction pile, subsea manifold, and tree for ExxonMobil at the Rockefeller field on East Breaks Block 992 in the Gulf of Mexico. The suction pile, which is over 35 feet (10.6 m) tall and 15 feet (4.6 m) in diameter, was successfully [...]
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — Making some “Easy money” was the motive behind a Trade Me scam that had 11 people lose more than $3,000 when they successfully bid on bogus auctions put on the website by a Picton commercial diver. Just one of the victums has received their money back from Matthew Munn, who put [...]
Subsea contractor Technip said it was awarded a lump sum contract by Marathon Oil Company for the Ozona field development in the Gulf of Mexico. The project consists of the tie-in of a well in Garden Banks 515 to the Shell Auger platform. The contract covers project management and surveys, engineering, procurement / fabrication and [...]
By Adva Saldinger MYRTLE BEACH — A group of elected officials, business representatives and environmental advocates agreed on little Wednesday at a lively meeting about offshore energy production except that it is a timely issue to discuss. In October, Congress lifted a moratorium on offshore drilling and then-President Bush advised the Minerals Management Service in [...]
GALVESTON — A towing vessel that was hit by a falling crane boom from the Ocean Star Drilling Rig and Museum sank at the Port of Galveston, a U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman said Thursday. A salvage operation was under way following the 3:45 p.m. Wednesday sinking of the 40-foot Jerry Picton in 40 feet of [...]
SHARJAH, UAE – A Ukrainian marine engineer convicted of manslaughter for the death of a Kenyan diver is appealing to Russians at home and abroad to help him raise Dh200,000 (about US$73,000) for “diya”, blood money, and a Dh6,000 fine. Alexander Martsiokha, 42, second engineer on the supply ship Orel, has been looking for help to [...]
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