Norway Offers $193 Million Funding to Arctic Floating Wind Farm Project
oil and gas installations while also supplying power to land, Aasland added.GoliatVind is owned by shipping firm Odfjell Oceanwind, renewables developer Source Galileo and Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Company.It will connect to an existing power cable supplying power from shore to the Goliat oil platform, operated by Vaar Energi, a subsidiary of Italy's ENI.The oil platform consumes around 50-55 MW of electricity, which means that on full wind days, the planned turbines could send up to 25 MW to shore, Gunnar Birkeland, the head of Source Gallileo Norge, told Reuters.Birkeland would not provide
Record Year for PanGeo Subsea's Acoustic Corer
valued at over $8 million in 2022, so far."This has been the AC's busiest year since its commercialization in 2011, supporting surveys in the US, North and Baltic Seas," Kraken Robotics said.Earlier this year, PanGeo was awarded a $5 million contract in the US to support a major oil platform decommissioning survey. The scope of work was to acquire 63 overlapping acoustic cores providing 100% coverage of the site. The 63 individual cores were migrated into a single high-resolution 3D acoustic volumetric data set, identifying buried infrastructure at depths up to 60 meters below
NOAA Taps Planet to Track Oil Spills, Marine Debris, And Marine Life
the company's PlanetScope and SkySat products to gain oceanic insights by evaluating oil spills, tracking marine debris, detecting vessels, and identifying large marine mammals like whales.In 2004, Hurricane Ivan caused severe damage in the Gulf of Mexico, including the collapse and sinking of an oil platform. Crude oil from this platform continued to leak for over a decade, in what would become the longest running oil spill in United States history. NOAA began tracking the region with government-provided satellite data to generate reports on the situation. In 2018, NOAA reached out to Planet to explore
Lander Lab: Technologies, Strategies and Use of Ocean Landers
;Persistence: Expanding on Ewing & Vine, a lander can remain on the seafloor for an entire year or longer if needed. Using glass, plastic and titanium, landers are capable of long duration deployments of even multiple years. One application may be to surround the base of an offshore oil platform where they can continuously monitor for a hydrocarbon leak, communicating with each other and back to the platform;9. Baited lure: The lander can be used to lure animals towards its position by the use of bait. Low-light cameras using red LEDs can image animal behavior without disturbance
EQS Deploys Falcon to prep for Africa's First Offshore Oil Decom
Angola sees Africa’s first offshore oil platform decommissioning underway as EQS (Environment Quality Services) successfully deploys its Saab Seaeye Falcon for determining safer upcoming decommissioning operations.Dubai-based EQS assess the integrity of offshore structures using their Falcon for visual inspection and image gathering.The range of offshore structures inspected to assess integrity includes platform (jacket), wellhead, protection dome, pipelines and umbilical.EQS help offshore energy clients navigate the complex environmental regulatory landscape to achieve regulatory compliance
VIDEO: 'Eye of fire' Near Offshore Platform in Mexico Extinguished
a gas leak from an underwater pipeline for sparking the blaze captured in videos that went viral.Bright orange flames jumping out of water resembling molten lava was dubbed an "eye of fire" on social media due to the blaze's circular shape, as it raged a short distance from a Pemex oil platform.The fire took more than five hours to fully put out, according to Pemex.The fire began in an underwater pipeline that connects to a platform at Pemex's flagship Ku Maloob Zaap oil development, the company's most important, four sources told Reuters earlier.Ku Maloob Zaap is located just
Submersible Linear Position Sensors for Offshore Drilling
,000 ft or more and with external pressures up to 20,000psi. NewTek Subsea and Marine Sensor designs are used for measuring the strain on mooring chains that keep ships or platforms stationary and monitoring structural movement and elongation of pipelines, derricks and structural components of an oil platform to a fraction of a microstrain. Position measurements ensure the drilling platform doesn’t shift to more than 2 mm to ensure ongoing stability.The Submersible LVDTs are also used on the valves of Christmas tree chokes to provide position feedback as part of a remote monitoring and control
ROV Innovation Saves Millions for Woodside
drilling.In addition to the achieved cost savings, Fugro said its innovative technique resulted in significant risk reduction, achieved through reduced requirements for vessels, personnel and equipment. The new system delivers additional benefits including access to previously inaccessible areas of oil platform jackets and an improved operating window due to the absence of heave and drift-on restrictions associated with vessel-based ROVs.Work on the Woodside IRM project is planned to continue until December 2018
A Record-setting Journey to the Atacama Trench
. They can be deployed singlely, or in large numbers to survey a large area from a small vessel. Once the lander is deployed, it is free of the ship, while at the same time the ship is free if the lander. Landers can be configured to communicate with each other, or with a surface platform such as an oil platform. Many of the same sciences proposed using the cable-to-shore OOS networks can be done with benthic landers, with the limitation that data is not available 24/7. Devices designed for mating to the OOS can be qualified using landers.Deployment of DOV Audacia utilized a crane, taglines, and a quick
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