SMD has been honoured with the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category for its growing presence and success in global markets.

Systems Will Deliver Regional and International Connectivity to Middle Eastern Countries

TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology has completed construction of the TGN-EA (Jeddah) and TGN-Gulf undersea cables for Tata Communications. TGN-EA (Jeddah) connects Saudi Arabia, Egypt and India, while TGN-Gulf links Oman, India, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain.

With established bases already in Aberdeen, Abu Dhabi, Houston, Louisiana, Perth and Singapore, this new office supporting the Brazil region, reflects the company’s ongoing expansion and increased business from new and existing clients.

The ruling, together with last week's decision on Transocean's financial obligations stemming from its conduct at the Macondo well, is a strong signal that contractors involved in critical well operations will be held accountable for their actions under the law. 

Cable installation at London Array has been rescheduled following bad weather and engineering challenges arising from operating in the wind farm’s shallow waters.

A review by London Array and cabling contractors Global Marine and Visser & Smit Marine Contracting Ltd (VSMC) will see fresh resources deployed to ensure the inter-array cables are installed on time.

Located on mid-ocean ridges, hot vent ecosystems are characterized by extreme environments and unique organisms, which don't depend on sunlight - a rare feat! Photosynthesis is the way plants convert energy to food, but deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities are sustained by microorganisms, which carry out a process known as chemosynthesis.

Only 12 hours into its 15-day mission on the Mediterranean Sea, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) research vessel Atlantis put science on the back burner when a mayday call came in late Friday, the vessel's captain said in a ship-to-shore interview with the Times on Sunday.

A Bowtech camera system has been successfully deployed to observe decommissioning operations on the L13FH well which is operated by Shell in the Dutch Sector of the Southern North Sea.

The Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and MiningWatch Canada and have released a new report called Out of Our Depth. It details serious environmental and social impacts expected as a result of unprecedented mining of the ocean floor in PNG.

Oil & Gas UK welcomes the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report published today (November 24) on the tragic crash of helicopter Flight 85N which took place off the Aberdeenshire coast on 1 April 2009.

AAIB publishes report on the accident to Aerospatiale (Eurocopter) Super Puma 11 nm NE of Peterhead, Scotland on 1 April 2009

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) was notified of the accident by Aeronautical Rescue Co-ordination Centre (ARCC) Kinloss at 1326 hrs on 1 April 2009 and the investigation began the same day.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and the University of Bergen have acquired geological material from steep parts of the seabed on the Jan Mayen Ridge.

The MacArtney Group's longest established subsidiary, MacArtney Norge in Stavanager, Norway, has officially opened its doors to their newly completed, purposed built building.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected six new natural gas and oil research projects aimed at reducing risks and enhancing the environmental performance of drilling in ultra-deepwater settings.