Subsea UK is hosting a breakfast briefing during OTC in Houston to demonstrate the significant value of innovative technology in improving efficiency and reducing costs in subsea operations. Part of a series of breakfast briefings organised by UK Trade & Investment, this event to be held on Tuesday 5 May, will showcase technology developed by three companies to an audience of 200 delegates from around the world and will highlight the significant commercial rewards that can result from innovation. Ian Donald, vice president of DES Operations will examine the economic benefits of the company's patented multiple application re-injection system... (read more)

2009-04-20 11:56:44

Offshore Business Director

IXSEA has appointed Richard Parkinson as Offshore Business Director. Parkinson, an Oceanographer and Surveyor, was the founder, Managing Director and major share holder of UTEC Services Ltd, a start-up offshore survey company set up in 2003. After attracting investment in UTEC's survey services from a Houston based investment group, which allowed the company to expand, he became Sales and Marketing Director of UTEC Survey Ltd and now brings extensive experience in the offshore industry to IXSEA. (read more)

2008-05-19 04:41:44

Five-year Offshore Contract

G.O.S.S. (North Sea) Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of G.O.S.S. Consultants Ltd, UK, has been successful in securing a contract from Shell for the Provision of Geophysical, Geotechnical and Survey Representatives. The contract will commence on 1 February 2013 and run for five years. The agreement will involve the supply of personnel to Shell Upstream Europe business entities Shell U.K. Limited, Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V, Shell E&P Ireland Limited and A/S Norske Shell. Professionals interested in working on this project may contact G.O.S.S. (read more)

2012-12-17 10:35:10

Offshore Survey Registration Open

The Offshore Survey 09 conference will be held alongside Ocean Business 2009 at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton from 1 to 2 April 2009. The conference features two days of technical presentations focusing on the essential sciences and data management critical to any offshore exploration or development project: from the first requirement of precise positioning to the acquisition and processing of geophysical data below the seabed and wider. "The impact of dramatic oil price swings on the global Ocean Industry business make Offshore Survey 09 extremely timely. Over two days the OS09 Conference programme includes papers on market opportunities,... (read more)

2009-01-08 10:44:27

Offshore Renewables Symposium

NortekUK is organising the 2011 NortekUK Offshore Renewables Symposium at the Sheraton Skyline Hotel, Heathrow, London from 26th to 27th October 2011. The symposium offers two days of presentations, technical discussions and networking opportunities focused around the use of acoustic Doppler measurement technology in the field of offshore renewable Energy. The 2011 Symposium invites participation from all disciplines of oceanography and ocean engineering from the academic, government and commercial sectors. A number of keynote speakers already has been arranged to set the scene. Nortek is seeking submissions from additional speakers from areas such as the measurement of current flow in-front... (read more)

2011-07-08 12:00:00

Deepwater Offshore Wind Turbine

The Engineering Business (EB) has celebrated the succesfull installation of the second deepwater offshore wind turbine. EB's BOWTIS - Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Turbine Installation System - was used by Talisman Energy (UK) Limited in the Moray Firth in Scotland. The REpower 5MW turbine was installed in a single lift from a floating barge, and forms the second half of the Beatrice Wind Farm Demonstrator Project. The first REpower 5MW turbine, also installed using BOWTIS last year, was fully commissioned on 8 May. EB began campaigning for the concept of installing offshore wind turbines in a single lift in... (read more)

2007-07-18 02:00:03

Trident Offshore Positioning Contract

Trident Offshore have commissioned Veripos to provide a full range of precision GNSS positioning services and associated support under an exclusive five-year global contract. The agreement calls for Veripos to provide its complete range of proprietary satellite positioning services extending from its Standard GNSS augmentation service to its Ultra decimetre-accuracy Precise Point Positioning (PPP) capability. Additionally, Veripos will also provide its range of LD2 and LD3 integrated GNSS receiver and demodulator mobile units together with user-configurable Verify-QC software packages for real-time assessment and post-processing of data as well as support of both single and multi-reference station calculations. (read more)

2008-03-27 08:46:25

Digital Video Offshore

A Review of Current and Future Technologies

The advent of digital video introduces a new era for the offshore oil & gas industry. Digital methods of data acquisition have permeated most offshore survey techniques. The Offshore Survey and Remote Systems and ROV divisions of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) have published a review of the field in Digital Video Offshore: A Review of Current and Future Technologies, for offshore contractors and their clients. The adoption of digital encoding and recording of video data has gathered pace over recent years and many annual inspection campaigns now include digital video deliverables. This step has been dictated either by... (read more)

2008-01-01 01:00:00

Offshore Technology

EWEA Offshore

Offshore Breakfast