Farstad Shipping ASA has been awarded a 5-year framework agreement by Technip Norge AS for delivery of ROV support operations, light construction work, IMR and other subsea related activities. The agreement gives Technip the right to utilize the vessel up to 320 days per year, and to extend the cont
Stellendam-based, Maaskant Shipyards, part of Damen Shipyards Group, is involved in the refit of research vessel ‘MV Tridens’ (length 73 metre, width 14 metre) owned by governmental shipowner Rijksrederij. According to the company, this project is the largest refurbishment job in Maaskant Shipyards’
Voies navigables de France has invited bidders to submit their offers for the Rhone-Rhine Canal dredging program. This deepening project on the Rhone-Rhine Canal South Branch (CRRBS) downstream Lock 41n in Mulhouse to the downstream lock 7s in Bourogne, will include: – Development of the site includ
Governor Pat McCrory has named Tom Adams of Brunswick County the next chairman of the North Carolina State Ports Authority Board of Directors. “We look forward to Tom Adams’ leadership as he takes on this new role within the Board, and we trust in his ability to advance the goals of the North Caroli
DeepWell has been awarded a four year contract with Lundin for wireline services on the Edvard Grieg field, in the Norwegian North Sea. The contract also includes two options for a one year extension. The contract applies to all cased hole services, including tractor and electric wireline logging, a
A decision on Chatham Rock Phosphate’s marine consent application is expected to be announced on or before 30 January 2015. The Decision-making Committee hearing CRP’s application today officially closed the hearing. Once closed the DMC has 20 working days to consider its decision which would mean t
The New Suez Canal dredging project is progressing very well. Suez Canal Authority (SCA) chief Mohab Mamish recently hailed efforts exerted by the workers of the project and the progress they made so far. This development project is designed to enlarge the transit capacity and to increase industrial
Stockholms Hamn AB (Ports of Stockholm) has announced a tender for the dredging works in Stockholm, Nynashamn and Norvikudden. This dredging contract will involve the following activities: – Rock excavation of about 200,000m³; – Excavation of rock fill of about 200,000m³; – Excavation of friction so
Aker Solutions is set to deliver the modules for the world’s first subsea gas compression system at the Statoil-operated Åsgard field. The facility, scheduled to come on stream in 2015, will enable the recovery of an additional 282 million barrels of oil equivalents. The modules will be assembled in
Months of underwater surveys mapping the topography of the ocean floor are now completed and cable manufacturing work will start next week in France on Australia’s largest domestic subsea network. Owned and operated by the Nextgen Group, the globally significant subsea optical fibre cable system wil
Magseis, a Norwegian geophysical company, has been awarded a Letter of Intent (LOI) by a major international oil company for seabed seismic acquisition in the UK sector of the North Sea. Magseis will be using the company’s proprietary MASS system and Artemis Athene. MV Artemis Athene is a DP 2 class
Norway’s Aker Solutions is set to deliver the modules for the world’s first subsea gas compression system at the Statoil-operated Åsgard field. The facility, scheduled to come on stream in 2015, will enable the recovery of an additional 282 million barrels of oil equivalents. The modules will be ass
SeaBird Exploration has received a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) from an undisclosed client to acquire up to 45,000 km of 2D seismic data in North/ South America region. According to the company’s press release, the MOA provides for the company to charter one seismic vessel from SeaBird over a perio
Swedish Alfa Laval has won an order to supply compact heat exchangers for two FPSOs to be moored offshore Angola. The order, booked in the Energy & Process segment, has a value of approximately SEK 50 million and delivery is scheduled for 2015. The order comprises compact heat exchangers for various
