Zamil Offshore owns 60 per cent and Mermaid 40 per cent of the JV, which was formed to bid for a Saudi Aramco contract to supply diving support vessels and diving services for five years plus two one year extensions. The JV was successful and Aramco awarded them the contract.

Under the charter, the dive support vessel (DSV) Mermaid Nusantara will perform inspection, repair and maintenance contracts as well as saturation diving for construction support, ongoing field maintenance and call out repair. In addition, the Indonesia-flagged vessel will also secure any potential work in Indonesia and bids for jobs in Southeast Asia.

Singapore based Miclyn Express Offshore (MEO) looks to have picked up a bargain in the assets sell-off resulting from Superior Energy Services' decision to shut up shop at its subsea services division, Hallin. MEO today reported it had acquired the former Hallin DP2 Subsea Operations Vessel Windermere. Windermere is designed for wellhead servicing, inspection and construction diving, and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) support.

Granter is a senior aquaculture technologist with the Marine Institute’s (MI) Centre for Aquaculture and Seafood Development who became aware of the potential benefits of ROVs in the industry when asked to do some work on a mussel grow-out operation.

The Gazprom Management Committee addressed the progress of the South Stream gas pipeline construction project. It was stressed that South Stream Transport was ready for constructing the most complicated part of the project – the first and the second strings of the offshore gas pipeline. FEED activities are completed for the offshore section.

Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes has set a world record. During a period of four weeks, Stornes placed rock in water depths of up to 1,277 metres. The Subsea Rock installation works were executed in relation to the development of the Aasta Hansteen gas field and Polarled pipeline in the Norwegian Sea.

GE Oil & Gas has added the capability to fabricate subsea wellheads in Nigeria. The announcement was made in Lagos by Uzo Nwagwu, chief operating officer for GE Oil & Gas in Nigeria. The company regards this as a major milestone for GE Oil & Gas in their efforts to substantially increase the local capabilities of its operations in Nigeria. The new wellhead production capabilities at GE’s existing Onne facility in River State align with the Nigerian federal government’s local law.

 

 

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The museum - along State Road A1A North on Hutchinson Island, east of downtown Fort Pierce, Fla. - chronicles the Navy's sea, air and land teams from their origin in World War II to heroic modern-day assignments such as the killing of terrorist Osama bin Laden and the rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips after his freighter was captured by Somali pirates.

What do the vessels of the U.S. Navy and the French Navy, underwater robots, teams of divers, a submarine, and the latest ocean technologies have in common? They are all being used in the search for the flagship of John Paul Jones, the BONHOMME RICHARD.

In a memorable (and much-parodied) 1983 television ad for a brand of instant, decaffeinated coffee, a gravel-voiced announcer asked: "What kind of people drink Sanka? People like Joe Zebrosky, underwater welder." The ad, one of a series featuring manly men in a variety of high-stakes professions, featured the aforementioned Zebrosky intoning: "Too much caffeine makes me tense. And down here, I can’t afford that."

"Technology Innovation for Deep Blue". This will be the theme for next year’s international conference to be held in Xiamen, China. The China International Diving, Salvage & Offshore Equipment Exhibition 2015 (DSOI) summit schedule is on November 5 to 7, 2015 and will be in cooperation with BIC Congress Incorporated, Asia’s largest international congress association that has already held 300 conferences featuring various fields such as Information Technology, energy, environment and economics.

The oil market has entered a new era with lower Chinese economic growth and booming U.S. shale output, making a return soon to high prices unlikely, the West’s energy watchdog said on Friday. The International Energy Agency, which typically refrains from predicting oil prices, said in its monthly report that prices could fall further in 2015 after declining to their lowest levels since 2010 below $80 per barrel.

Marine electric vehicles make new things possible and increasingly they have lower cost of ownership and are the only practicable way of meeting the newer, more onerous pollution regulations for inland waterways and harbours. Marine electric craft are increasingly made by existing shipyards making conventional craft but there is also a trend for those making land or airborne electric vehicles to make marine ones as well.

SeaTech Solutions International (S) Pte Ltd is pleased to announce that it will be performing the basic design for the World’s First Seabed Mining Vessel for Marine Assets Corporation (MAC) and Nautilus Minerals Inc. for use at the Solwara 1 Project.

The Autonomous Ocean Systems Laboratory (AOSL) at the Memorial University of Newfoundland is undertaking a long-term study into modelling the behaviour of icebergs that includes acquiring real-world data that will increase the accuracy of predicting the rate and direction of their drift.

IMO meets to make Polar Code mandatory, and consider new rules to live by THE UN's International Maritime Organisation's maritime safety committee is expected to adopt the Polar Code to make it mandatory at a meeting this week, reports London's Tanker Operator. The safety committee will also seek to approve the draft Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) amendments to make mandatory the International Code of Safety for Ships using Gases, or other Low flashpoint Fuels (IGF Code). The Polar Code contains additional design, construction, equipment, operational, training and search and rescue rules for ships in Arctic and Antarctic waters.