Oil and gas fields in the North Sea and elsewhere in the western world developed rapidly during the oil crisis of the seventies, when this commodity quadrupled in price. Now...

Subsea service company DOF Subsea UK has secured a contract with Hess to provide diver-less decommissioning services from its new multipurpose support vessel, the Skandi Skansen in the Ivanhoe /...

The Sonsub Division of Saipem UK has recently completed the offshore campaign for the Total Frigg Sealines Cessation Plan, resulting in a successful conclusion to the project. The Frigg field...

Angola sees Africa’s first offshore oil platform decommissioning underway as EQS (Environment Quality Services) successfully deploys their Saab Seaeye Falcon for determining safer upcoming decommissioning operations.  Dubai-based EQS assess the...

Saab Seaeye customer Stinger Technology has developed an idea to penetrate the labyrinth inside offshore production tanks in search of environmental contaminates prior to decommissioning. The company has managed to...

The 3D sonar technology of the Coda Echoscope is set for new decommissioning projects in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Echoscope's 3D capabilities, bringing real-time visualisation to...

Renewable energy and the pivotal role of hydrography in offshore development take centre stage in a captivating interview with Professor Ed Hill, chief executive of the National Oceanography Centre (NOC)....

Argeo Robotics, a fully owned subsidiary of Argeo AS, has been granted a patent from the Norwegian Industrial Patent office (Patentstyret) for an advanced subsea electromagnetic remote sensing system. Argeo is...

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has begun conducting research with robot submarine Boaty McBoatface on end-of-life oil fields off the coast of the Shetland Islands to help monitor and protect...

In recent years, terrestrial and extraterrestrial ocean research have increasingly joined forces to merge expertise and technical solutions in the exploration of marine systems on Earth and in space. This...