AZTI-Tecnalia, Spain, has presented the cartography for the sea beds off the coast at the Basque cities of Donostia-San Sebastián and Bilbao. The high-precision material is aimed at use for fishing and leisure, such as scuba diving, surfing or recreational fishing. The project was financed by the Department of the Environment, Land Planning Territorial, Agriculture and Fisheries of the Basque Government.
Alnmaritec has delivered two boats in the oil-spill and pollution control market. The most recent delivery was a boom deployment and spill response boat Response 1 to the Barbados National Terminal Company for operation on their oil export facility at Oistins Bay on the South Coast of the island. This delivery follows completion of a high-speed pollution response boat which is operated by PetroChina on a refinery at Dalian in Eastern China.
Richard Burt, marketing director of Chelsea Group, recently was interviewd by BrooklandsFM radio. He outlined the approach to monitor the environmental impact and the work is done using Chelsea's technology.
Local students of Northwestern Michigan College's Water Studies Institute, USA, contribute a month mapping the bottom of Grand Traverse Bay in the second phase of the Grand Traverse Bay Hydrographic Research Project. The data will result in the first new maps in 80 years. This underwater mapping project which started last summer in the Traverse City area is continuing this year.
Asset Development and Improvement Limited ADIL the independent consultancy providing development and operations management support to the energy industry is relocating its Aberdeen Head Offic
Petrofac the international oil amp gas facilities service provider announces that it has been awarded a KD116.39 million approximately US 400 million contract by Kuwait Oil Company KOC. The
Further to its announcement on 27 July 2010 Argos the oil amp gas exploration company with assets in the North Falkland Basin announces that its entire issued share capital comprising 21611320
Secondquarter adjusted earnings of 2.5 billion or 1.67 per share EampP production of 1.73 million BOE per day U.S. refining capacity utilization rate of 96 percent Program to sell ent
Oil producer Stuart Petroleum Limited Stuart ASX STU has received expert advice that its Cooper Basin tenements have the potential to contain world class resources of natural gas in two me
PetroNeft Resources plc owner and operator of Licences 61 and 67 Tomsk Oblast Russian Federation provides an update on its operations at Licence 61. Highlights Fifth and sixth production we
Monitor signs HOA to acquire up to a 90 interest in three production licences in producing onshore oilfields in Trinidad Following the Acquisition Monitor will be a fullyfunded oil product
On August 1 2009 Suncor Energy Inc. completed its merger with PetroCanada. As such the results for the three months ended June 30 2010 reflect the results of the postmerger Suncor and the compar
Acergy S.A. announced today the award of a contract valued at approximately 1.3 billion for the engineering procurement fabrication and installation of a significant deepwater development off
NOAA continues to play a vital role in the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill response, using all the scientific methods at its disposal, including satellites in space, planes in the air, ships on the water, autonomous underwater vehicles and gliders under the water, and scientists in the field.
As the nation?s lead science agency for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene from day one ? providing coordinated scientific, weather and biological information and products when and where they are needed most.
Pioneer Natural Resources Company has announced financial and operating results for the quarter ended June 30 2010. Pioneer reported second quarter net income attributable to common stockholders of
The 2009 State of the Climate report released Wednesday draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the same finding: the scientific evidence that our world is warming is unmistakable.
The 2009 State of the Climate report released on Wednesday draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the same finding: the scientific evidence that our world is warming is unmistakable.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) have released its second peer-reviewed, analytical summary report about subsurface oil monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico. The report contains preliminary data collected at 227 sampling stations extending from one to 52 kilometres from the Deepwater Horizon/BP wellhead. Data shows movement of subsurface oil is consistent with ocean currents and that concentrations continue to be more diffuse as you move away from the source of the leak. This confirms the findings of the previous report.
MariSoft, Egypt, has made integrated software sales to subsea cable specialists, Offshore Marine Management's (OMM) survey services section. OMM has utilised Inspector and HydroChart on all their projects to date including the recent Barrow and Burbo offshore wind farm scopes of work and also for the Transpower HVAC cable installation and associated survey, WROV and trenching operations due to start in August 2010.
OSIL, UK, are offering demonstrations of the YSI CastAway, a profiler that gives oceanographers, hydrologists, and surveyors the ability to instantaneously view profiles of temperature, salinity, and sound speed from any dock, bridge, or boat. With three taps of a magnetic stylus pen, simply drop the CastAway CTD in the water, pull it up, and have conductivity, temperature, depth and sound velocity measured in minutes. An embedded LCD screen provides easy access for setup, deployment, and immediate data review.
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