Mermaid Secures Sub‐Sea Services Call out Contract With Chevron In the Gulf Of Thailand Friday, Feb 26, 2010 3 year call out contract for turnkey sub‐sea services valued at approximately USD 15 million positions Mermaid as Chevron’s first point of contract for call‐out work to support its offshore facilities and offshore fields in the Gulf [...]
Fugro Synergy awarded Support Vessel of the Year Thursday, Feb 25, 2010 Fugro Synergy is declared as the Support Vessel of the Year 2010. The ship, build at Bergen Group Halsnøy, represents a new generation high technology drillship built for an increasing demand for cost effective drilling units. Fugro Synergy received the award as Support [...]
Optical system promises to revolutionize undersea communications February 23, 2010 An artist’s conception of how the optical modem could function at a deep ocean cabled observatory. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) collect sonar images (downward bands of light) and other data at a hydrothermal vent site and transmit the data through an optical modem to receivers [...]
Oceaneering Announces the Promotion of Kevin McEvoy to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer February 23, 2010: 04:59 PM ET HOUSTON, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Oceaneering International, Inc. (NYSE: OII) announced the promotion of M. Kevin McEvoy to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. In this capacity, Mr. McEvoy will have the responsibility [...]
Salvors remove navigational hazards in Haiti 18 February 2010 A TITAN Salvage team is working in Haiti to remove navigational hazards following the devastating earthquake, including the collapsed Washington gantry crane, in Port-au-Prince for the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), in an effort to increase the cargo throughput in the heavily damaged port. TITAN’s team, led [...]
Ex-Garda diver appeals Isle of Man dismissal LORNA SIGGINS Marine Correspondent A FORMER Garda diver who won several bravery awards and a United Nations medal for service in Bosnia is appealing his dismissal from a diving post he held with the Isle of Man transport department. Sean O’Connell, who also participated in an international diving [...]
Navy SEAL dies during dive training in Key West BY CAMMY CLARK cclark@MiamiHerald.com A 26-year-old Navy SEAL died in Key West waters during intensive dive training in preparation for an overseas deployment, according to the Naval Special Warfare Group. Ronald Tyler Woodle of Waynesville, N.C., was part of a small group of Navy SEALs undergoing [...]
3rd find for Husky in S. China Sea by: Jennifer Pallanich, jpallanich@offshore-engineer.com OilOnline Manager posted on 2/9/2010 Husky Energy reported finding a 145m gross gas column with its Liuhua 29-1 exploration well drilled in 723m of water in the South China Sea. Liuhua 29-1 – drilled 43km northeast of the Liwan 3-1 gas field in [...]
Diver breaks barriers in cold waters of Alaska Underwater welder relishes working in extreme environment By Melissa Campbell | Alaska Journal of Commerce ANCHORAGE – Most people would have said, “Heck with this.” But for Jennifer Sullivan, that first dive in the freezing-cold waters in Whittier on that Thanksgiving weekend sealed the deal. “I came [...]
Two days of Trade Show walking and here’s the new stuff that we here at cDiver.net have seen: Seabotix unveiled a brand new model of ROV, the vLBV300. We will have additional information on this next week along with photos. Here is the model info for now: http://www.seabotix.com/products/vlbv300_overview.htm With the industry being so slow and [...]
Subsea saturation diving, at depths down to 1,000 feet (300 meters) below the surface, tests equipment and men to the limit. To protect divers from the cold in the diving bell, manufacturer Unique System turned to Trelleborg Offshore for a syntactic foam insulation. “The engineered Trelleborg syntactic foam insulation, and the company’s 3D modelling design [...]
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