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Bourbon Takes Delivery of its 500th Vessel
Bourbon celebrates delivery of the 500th vessel, placing the group at the head of the world's largest fleet of vessels operated (vessels owned or on bareboat charter) for the offshore marine services industry. Bourbon announced the entry into service of its 500th vessel - the Bourbon Evolution 806, the sixth vessel of the first series of vessels for inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) of subsea infrastructure for the offshore industry.
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Climate Change Could Cost Europe $260 Billion
If no further action is taken and global temperature increases by 3.5°C, climate damages in the EU could amount to at least $260 billion (€190 billion), a net welfare loss of 1.8% of its current GDP. Several weather-related extremes could roughly double their average frequency. As a consequence, heat-related deaths could reach about 200 000, the cost of river flood damages could exceed $13.6 billion (€10 billion) and 8,000 km2 of forest could burn in southern Europe.
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Block Island’s Sandy Restoration Continues
Almost two years after Hurricane Sandy, the storm’s impacts are still being seen on both land and sea. The United Sates Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) - New England is on a mission to restore and clean the beaches and channels in Block Island, R.I,., and the Corps is now using a special dredge to make the entrance channel to the Harbor of Refuge to remove hazardous shoals in the channel. During this Block Island restoration project…
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Tekmar’s Senior Management Gets a Boost
Offshore cable protection specialist Tekmar Energy announced it has reinforced its senior management team with the appointments of a nonexecutive technical director and a technical sales manager; Dr. Terry Sheldrake and Charlie Sullivan have taken up the respective roles. Dr. Sheldrake, a specialist in developing technology strategy, will support the development and implementation of the firm’s innovative products servicing both the oil and gas and offshore wind industries.
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US Closer to Wave Energy off Oregon
As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, cut carbon pollution and develop domestic energy sources, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced today it has taken an important step toward issuing a research lease for a facility to test utility-scale wave energy devices in federal waters off Oregon. The non-competitive lease would be for the offshore area where…
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New Zealand Refuses Marine Mining Proposal
New Zealand’s EPA Decision-making Committee announced it has refused consent to the application by Trans-Tasman Resources Ltd for a marine consent for its iron sand mining project in the South Taranaki Bight. The Committee said the major reason for its decision was uncertainty around the scope and significance of the potential adverse environmental effects, and those on existing interests (such as the Fishing Interests and Iwi).
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Subsea Risk Management in Real Time
A newly established research center on Norway’s west coast hopes to improve subsea operation and maintenance by bringing risk management into real time. Integrated Well and Subsea Instrumentation (IWSI) is the latest development from independent technology research institute Christian Michelsen Research AS (CMR), which aims to establish an arena for subsea and well instrumentation research and development…
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Subsea: Standardization is the New Innovation
As one of the world’s most technologically innovative industries, the highly specialized subsea sector is not typically known for standardized operations. But that is changing. But as the complexity of global subsea projects grows, so too does the bill for contractors, suppliers, operators, engineers, researchers and just about everyone involved in subsea projects. Many believe that this doesn’t have to be the case.
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Several Contracts for DOF Subsea
DOF Subsea has been awarded several contracts totaling approximately $79.8m, including orders for work in Asia Pacific, North Sea and North America. “In the Atlantic region we have achieved repeat business with important clients and have established new client relationships,” said DOF Subsea CEO, Mons S. Aase. Maersk Oil UK contracted DOF Subsea to perform removal and replacement with related survey…
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OceanServer Lands US Navy AUV Contracts
U.S. OceanServer Technology announced today that it has received orders for four new Iver3 AUVs across three different U.S. Navy contracts. The new vehicles will include two standard Iver3-580 units and two new Iver3-450 Nano AUVs. The Iver3 Nano AUVs represent a new class of very small lightweight AUVs weighing less than 39 Lbs with modern chirp based sonar. Two new Iver3-580 systems have already…
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Kongsberg Upgrades Digital Stills Camera
Kongsberg Maritime, a developer of underwater imaging products, said it has added an Ethernet control interface and a new graphical user interface to its high resolution digital stills camera the OE14-408. The OE14-408 with its 1/1.7” CCD sensor, five time’s optical zoom and achromatic doublet lens has the ability to capture stills images up to a 10 mega pixel resolution whilst correcting for chromatic aberration, Kongsberg said.
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Australian Divers Remove Potential WWII Mine
The Royal Australian Navy reported that its clearance divers have successfully disposed of a suspect object in Betio Lagoon off South Tarawa, in the Republic of Kiribati. Australian Defense previously reported the suspicious item may be a sea mine from World War II. A team of Australian Defense Force personnel was sent to the Pacific island nation following the discovery of the suspect object beneath a sunken vessel that was being salvaged by commercial operators.
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Technip Selects CWind for Cable Pull-in
CWind, a provider of services to the offshore wind industry, has been awarded a contract by Technip Offshore Wind for the provision of cable pull-in services, complete with crew transfer vessel, to transport CWind technicians on site and support the cable pull-in. Building on previous project scopes, CWind is now project managing the entire tower side pull in operation including the supply of equipment.
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IHC Merwede Debuts Hi-Traq trencher
IHC Merwede has introduced the four-tracked subsea trencher, specifically developed for shallow water operations and targeted towards cable burial in offshore wind farms. The Hi-Traq was presented at a special event at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, which was attended by offshore wind industry professionals from the U.K., Europe and the U.S.A. The new remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has been developed…
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Cortez Pipelay System Awarded UK Patent
Subsea services and technology products company Cortez Subsea has been granted a U.K. patent for its Modular Pipelay System, making new shallow water pipelay technology available to the North Sea for the first time. The culmination of three years of research and development to bring the technology - a collaboration between Cortez Subsea and NOV Tuboscope Zap-Lok - to the marketplace, the first trials…
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Delta SubSea Opens New Facility
Delta SubSea formally opened its new 20,400-square-foot Tooling Solutions facility on June 9, 2014. This new facility will add to DSS’s already vast infrastructure and provides DSS’s new Tooling Solutions Division with the needed space to provide state of the art Tooling Solutions to its customers. “This expansion to DSS infrastructure enables us to fulfill our mission of bringing full service subsea solutions to our customers,” said Scott Dingman, President-CEO of DSS.
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Alfultis Appointed President of SUNY Maritime
Dr. Michael A. Alfultis, a retired U.S. Coast Guard captain, and the director and chief administrative officer of the University of Connecticut’s Avery Point campus, has been named as the next president of the SUNY Maritime College. Dr. Alfultis’ appointment was affirmed today by the SUNY Board of Trustees who met in Buffalo. He will begin his Maritime presidential duties on Monday, July 14. With more…
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Teledyne to Continue UTS Seminars
The Teledyne Marine Acoustic Imaging Group, consisting of RESON, BlueView and Odom Hydrographic, has opened registration for its Underwater Technology Seminars (UTS), taking place in Hamburg, Boston and Singapore. The first UTS seminar in 2014 has already taken place in Qiandao Lake, April 15-16 in China with more than 115 delegates participating. At the three-day seminars in Hamburg and Boston the…
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BG to Sell its Interest in CATS Pipeline
BG Group today announced it had agreed to the sale of its equity interest in the Central Area Transmission System (CATS) gas pipeline in the U.K. North Sea and associated infrastructure to Antin Infrastructure Partners for total proceeds up to £562 million, or approximately $954 million at current exchange rates. Under the agreement, BG Group will sell its 62.78% interest in CATS for a consideration…
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Polarcus Receives LOI for 3D Seismic Acquisition
Polarcus Limited announced that it has received a letter of intent (LOI) for a 3D marine seismic acquisition project for an undisclosed client offshore West Africa. The project, subject to the execution of a service contract, will commence in July 2014 and is expected to run for approximately three months polarcus.com
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