US Oil Focused on Economics, not 'Drill, Baby, Drill' - Exxon Mobil Exec
on Monday that his transition team is putting together a wide-ranging energy package to roll out within days of his taking office.The U.S. is already the world's top oil producer following a surge in shale oil production, pumping over 13 million barrels per day earlier this year.(Reuters)The West Hercules platform oil rig moored off the coast of Newfoundland, with the supply vessel Atlantic Kingfisher is offloading supplies onto the rig. Copyright Dolores Harvey/AdobeStoc
OET Testing New ROV Cameras for 3D Model Making
; says Dr. Robert Ballard, NA156 Lead Scientist and OET Founder and President. “We hope to collect information and immersive imagery that can bring the deep ocean to classrooms, computers, and minds worldwide.”Operations using Nautilus’ dual-body ROV system consisting of the main ROV Hercules and the towsled Atalanta will be the main focus of the expedition. During each ROV seafloor survey, OET will collect high-resolution (<1 centimeter) visual and acoustic data over the seafloor using a new widefield camera array system and Norbit wideband multibeam sonar. The widefield camera array
The Value of Friends in “High-Latitude” Places
.met.no/).The Svalbard left the port of Florø on Oct. 12 to recover the final three moorings. However, the headaches were not over. An engine problem had to be resolved along the way at a port call in Longyearbyen, before the ship could transit to the first and northernmost mooring. A Hercules aircraft was used to send essential spare parts for the engines up to Longyearbyen and eight engineers worked long days to get the engines ready. Finally, on Oct. 23, the Svalbard was on her way to the first and northernmost CAATEX mooring in the Beaufort Sea, following a transpolar route optimized
Measuring the Hostile Ocean Beneath Hurricanes
ahead of moving storms; thus, they are air-dropped by parachute from aircraft. When hurricane Michael entered the Gulf of Mexico in October 2018, three EM-APEX floats were launched into its path by a research team led by Professor Nick Shay (University of Miami). Air deployment was from a USAF WC-130J Hercules aircraft operating from the Keesler Air Force base; these planes are modified for collecting weather information in hurricanes. Several US government agencies that monitor and predict hurricanes helped with the air deployment. Teledyne Marine provided hosting services for all data transmitted from
DOF Subsea Bags APAC Contracts
Norway-based international subsea operating company DOF Subsea announced several contract-awards in the Asia Pacific region, securing 130 days vessel and resource utilization into the first quarter of 2020. The contracts, for undisclosed clients in New Zealand and South East Asia, will see Skandi Hercules commence operations in December 2019 for a major operator, said the company which provides integrated project managed and engineered subsea solutions to the global offshore oil and gas industry.Additionally, Skandi Singapore will commence construction operations in early January 2020 in South East
#Oi2020 History
Commencing operation in 2000, NOAA’s remotely operated vehicle Argus typically works in tandem with another “workhorse” ROV known as Hercules. As a “tow sled” designation, Argus is suspended at the end of a steel-armored fiber-optic cable that is tethered to NOAA’s E/V Nautilus at the sea surface. Because Argus lacks a buoyancy module and is built of heavy stainless steel, its movements are controlled by moving the ship or raising and lowering the cable. A short 100-foot tether connects Hercules to Argus. By keeping the tether between Argus and Hercules slack
DOF Subsea Tallies Multiple Contracts
the Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm Project in the North Sea. The contract will utilize the CSV Skandi Constructor and ensures deployment for the vessel until the summer.In addition, DOF Subsea revealed it has been awarded several contracts in the Asia Pacific region, utilizing Skandi Singapore and Skandi Hercules. Taking into account the new contracts and existing work, DOF Subsea said its order intake stands at more than NOK 1 billion in the subsea/IMR project segment during the first two months of 2019, securing utilization for several vessels and remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) systems
The World’s Largest Ocean Garbage Patch is Growing Rapidly
vessels were equipped with standard surface sampling nets while the fleet’s mothership, RV Ocean Starr, trawled two six-meter-wide devices, which allowed the team to sample medium- to large-sized objects. To increase the surface area surveyed and to quantify the largest pieces of plastic, a C-130 Hercules aircraft was fitted with advanced sensors to collect multispectral imagery and 3D scans of the ocean garbage. In total, the fleet collected a total of 1.2 million plastic samples, while the aerial sensors scanned more than 115 square miles of ocean surface. “We were
West Phoenix to Drill in UK and Norway
to make new discoveries that can add value and provide the resources necessary for new developments on the UKCS. We are pleased to have secured a modern rig allowing us to mature and test our portfolio in a timely manner,” Morris added. In January, North Atlantic Norway Ltd and the West Hercules won the contract for exploration drilling for Statoil and its partners in the Barents Sea.
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