GEOxyz Names GM to Lead New UK Location
and Survey Manager at Alcatel Submarine Networks. Cashmore has a deep understanding of offshore site investigation; data integration and reporting and delivering complex and logistically challenging survey campaigns across the globe most notably in Africa, Greenland, Norwegian Arctic and the Kara Sea
OSVs: Fishing for Value
WesternGeco’s is understsood to have sailed from new-build quay to cold-stack. Polarcus, once a market darling, runs its own vessels but owes nearly USD800 million, although new September geophysics sales ought to help. The Good News Dolphin, now equipping its new-builds, plies Russia’s Kara Sea with Sanco, although U.S. companies are still active there, so sanctions have yet to fully disrupt global marine deal-making. The good news comes from Sanco client PGS and the chance several of its vessels will soon find employment off Newfoundland, Canada — toward which the Sanco Spirit was
Billions of Juvenile Fish under Arctic Ice
used satellite data and computer models, which can retrace the slow movement of the drifting sea ice. It has long been surmised that the young fish reach the Central Arctic from their spawning grounds under drifting ice. These spawning grounds are found in the coastal waters of the Laptev and Kara Seas in northern Siberia. In autumn new sea ice forms there, and is gradually pushed northwards into open waters by the wind. The juvenile fish are assumed to travel along under the ice. “We analysed the satellite data to determine how far the ice in that particular area has travelled,&rdquo
Gazprom Building up Resource Base
RSHN-1 (4,100 meters) resulted in a discovery of the North Rhourde Sayah field in Algeria. Key projects and regions In 2014 the main prospecting and exploration areas were the same: Yakutia, the Irkutsk Region, Sakhalin shelf, the Yamal Peninsula, the Nadym-Pur-Taz region, the Barents, Pechora and Kara Seas. According to the plans set, last year prospecting and exploration drilling exceeded 16 thousand meters of rocks, nine exploratory wells were built, and 3D seismic survey covered some two thousand square kilometers at the Chayandinskoye oil and gas field in Yakutia. At the Kovyktinskoye gas
Discovery of the Pobeda Field Confirmed
State commission on reserves confirmed the fact of discovery of the new arctic oil and gas field Pobeda on the Kara sea shelf. The field was discovered as the result of the drilling of the northernmost well in the world – the Universitetskaya-1 well. The expert commission accepted the fact of discovery of the Pobeda field and advised FSI RPE Rosgeolfond to register the oil and gas field Pobeda on government accounting with recoverable reserves of 130 mln tons of oil and 499 bcm of gas. The gas reserves were discovered in the chalk deposits of Cenomanian Age and Apt-Alb Age, the oil reserves
An Open Arctic and its Impact on Oil Drilling
record low ice is expected to occur in 2015 or 2016. These findings signify that Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODUs) will be able to undertake voyages to areas previously inaccessible, and drilling contractors will also have longer drilling seasons. MatthewsDaniel Weather monitors melting ice in the Kara Sea and the Chukchi Sea to calculate an estimated beginning and ending date for offshore drilling seasons. The Kara Sea (‘Ка́рское мо́ре’ in Russian) forms part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia and has a mean water depth of 110 meters (360 feet). Although the sea is ice-bound for about
Rosneft Will Continue Arctic Drilling
Russia's biggest oil producer Rosneft will continue drilling in the Arctic Kara Sea on its own after the departure of its partner, U.S. oil major ExxonMobil, due to sanctions, the company's head Igor Sechin said on Friday. "We will continue drilling in any case, on our own, always and everywhere. If partners can take part - that's good, if they can't - we will carry on alone," Sechin told reporters. Exxon earlier suspended cooperation with Rosneft in the Arctic due to U.S. sanctions over Moscow's involvement in the conflict in Ukraine. (Reporting by Denis
Rosneft Expands Deal with North Atlantic Drilling
;We are very pleased with the execution of these contracts, which is in line with the timetable agreed earlier this year," Alf Ragnar Lovdal, North Atlantic Drilling's chief executive officer said a statement. Rosneft plans to start drilling an exploration well jointly with ExxonMobil in Kara Sea next month. The United States and the European Union have imposed a number of sanctions against Russian individuals and companies, including Rosneft, in attempt to spot violence in eastern Ukraine where pro-Moscow rebels are fighting against the government forces. On Tuesday, European diplomats
Spent Nuclear Waste Lurks Beneath Arctic Ice
Large-scale Soviet nuclear tests, dumping of spent fuel and two scuttled nuclear-powered submarines are a major source of pollution in the Arctic ocean, reports 'The Moscow Times'. There are 17,000 containers and 19 vessels holding radioactive waste submerged in the Kara Sea, as well as 14 nuclear reactors, according to a report passed by Russia to the Norwegian authorities in 2012, says 'The Moscow Times' citing Bellona, an environmental group that acquired a copy of the document. The sinking of nuclear material and scuttling
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