ADCI Underwater Today

February 18, 2021

Fisk Marine Insurance International, LLC
INDUSTRY NEWS
US President Joe Biden has halted a major pipeline project and curbed leasing and permitting on federal lands. The US oil and gas sector now faces a waiting game to see how the administration's energy policy will evolve.

Visit https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/blogs/oil/020921-fft-biden-oil-pipelines-upstream-federal-land-permitting-energy-policy to view the full article online.

 
EIG Global Energy Partners-controlled Limetree Bay Ventures LLC has completed its long-planned restart of an idled refinery previously owned and operated by Hovensa LLC at Limetree Bay on St. Croix, USVI.

Visit https://www.ogj.com/refining-processing/refining/operations/article/14196605/limetree-bay-restarts-longidled-st-croix-refinery to view the full article online.

 
Wintershall Dea has permission from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate for exploration drilling in license 211 in the Norwegian Sea.

Visit https://www.offshore-mag.com/drilling-completion/article/14197036/three-norwegian-operators-get-drilling-goahead to view the full article online.

 
Teledyne Marine Systems USA
SURVEY: Proposed Revisions for the ADCI International Consensus for Commercial Diving and Underwater Operations 6.5

Do you have company news or a project you’d like to highlight in UNDERWATER? Please send a detailed project description and images to Rachel Brown at rachelb@naylor.com. 

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·       Products: Send us your product information and an accompanying image 

·       Water Log: Tell us your stories, who/what inspires you or reminisce about that life changing dive 

·       Sustainability/Renewable Projects 

·       ROV Case Studies 

·       Inland and Offshore Project Case Studies

·       White Papers 

 

Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/adc-nwl/articles/index-v5.asp?aid=660199&issueID=77058 to view the full article online.

 
Dive Commercial International, Inc.
MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

ADCI has released edition 6.4 of the International Consensus Standards for Commercial Diving and Underwater Operations.

The major areas of change are:

• Revised and expanded Underwater Lift Bag Section
• New subsection on manifolds
• New subsection on pressure-reducing regulators
• Revisions to audit reports to reflect additions of manifold and pressure-reducing regulator requirements

Visit https://www.adc-int.org/files/ADCI%20Consensus%20Standards%206_4.pdf to view the full article online.

 
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
HitecVision, a Norwegian capital provider for the energy industry, and compatriot Agder Energi, a provider of renewable energy solutions, are teaming up to develop new companies for the coming energy transition.

Visit https://www.offshore-energy.biz/two-norwegian-energy-players-unite-to-speed-up-energy-transition-efforts/ to view the full article online.

 
Algeria’s energy exports are plunging, threatening more financial suffering for the OPEC member and a potential repeat of the mass demonstrations that toppled the president two years ago.

Visit https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/2/8/algerias-oil-and-gas-exports-plummet to view the full article online.

 
New Age Energy Algoa has issued results of reprocessed 2D seismic data over the Algoa-Gamtoos license offshore South Africa.

Visit https://www.offshore-mag.com/geosciences/article/14197022/new-age-upgrades-resource-potential-offshore-south-africa to view the full article online.

 
Kirby Morgan Dive Systems, Inc.
NEW PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGY
French cleantech company Ecoslops has unveiled a new environmentally-friendly initiative aimed at producing bunker fuel from oily waste in Ghana.

Visit https://www.offshore-energy.biz/ecoslops-to-produce-bunkers-from-recycled-waste-oil-at-port-of-tema/ to view the full article online.

 
Tasik Subsea’s diving support vessel Southern Star has become the first ever to be awarded an ABS infectious disease mitigation notation.

Visit https://www.offshore-mag.com/business-briefs/coronavirus/article/14197047/southern-star-gets-new-abs-notation to view the full article online.

 
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has added marine energy to the open-source System Advisor Model (SAM) toolkit to facilitate the cost and performance analysis for wave and tidal energy systems.

Visit https://www.offshore-energy.biz/nrel-upgrades-sam-wave-and-tidal-tools/ to view the full article online.

 
From the Pages of Underwater Magazine
UNDERWATER Magazine had the opportunity to speak with Captain Sean Brady, United States Coast Guard Chief, Office of Operating and Environmental Standards.

Visit https://www.underwatermagazine.com/2021/02/the-last-word-captain-sean-brady-us-coast-guard/ to view the full article online.

 
Saab Seaeye Ltd