Consilium Korea won fire and gas detection order for ten LNG carriers with an option of additional 6.
C-MAR, an international marine and offshore services business, has won a new contract with Bourbon Offshore. C-MAR says that the three-year agreement, will start in January 2015 and see C-MAR supply Dynamic Positioning assurance services to one of the largest offshore vessel owners in the world. C-M
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has held a naming ceremony for four semi-submersible rigs, Hull No. 3031, 3032, 3034, 3035, ordered by the Norwegian-based Songa Offshore. Around 290 guests attended the naming ceremony held in H quay, at the Okpo shipyard, on October 24,
MPI Offshore’s wind-turbine-installation vessel, MPI Adventure, has successfully completed installation of the Humber Gateway Substation, following a very efficient transportation and installation period. This contract, which was undertaken for E.ON, involved the load out and installation of a total
Marine and coastal environment specialist, BMT Oceanica (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, has been awarded the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association’s (APPEA) “Understanding the Risks of Unplanned Discharges” study. BMT Oceanica will be working with Australia’s Commonwealth S
Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary PPL Shipyard has secured a US$240 million contract to build a new jack-up drilling rig from BOT Lease Co., Ltd (“BOTL”). BOTL is a leasing company of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ which is under the umbrella of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. The contract value may be
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (October 27 – November 02). Technip has been awarded a large engineering, procurement, installation and construction (EPCI) contract by EnQuest for the Kraken development located in the North Sea
The Bay of Fundy is now wired for power. Four underwater power cables have been successfully installed in the Minas Passage, each able to deliver electricity directly to homes across the province. The Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) has laid four cables along the sea floor of the Mina
The Havila Phoenix is a dynamically positioned multi-role ice class construction vessel. The Phoenix is a construction, installation and trenching support vessel available for subsea operations and is equipped with 250te active heave compensated offshore crane, 1500m 2 deck area, 140 berth accommoda
Recently a team of Hydrex diver/technicians performed a propeller blade cropping on a 363-meter container vessel berthed in Oakland, California. One of the six propeller blades had partially broken off and needed to be cropped to restore the propeller’s efficiency. One of the six blades of the conta
This week at Hydro 14 in Aberdeen, QPS announced a new processing product called Qimera that will be released in the New Year. The announcement was made on Wednesday to attendees at a QPS workshop. The announcement was the first public unveiling of the product and brought an audible gasp as the feat
DSC Dredge, LLC, a world leader in customized dredging solutions, continues to expand its international presence, with recent orders and deliveries into Nigeria, Republic of Congo and Alberta, Canada. A major Nigerian contractor has placed orders for 18-in. and 24-in. Marlin Class dredges, with 23-m
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use Songa Dee for well plugging at Gullfaks Sør. Statoil is the operator at Gullfaks Sør, located in block 34/10 in the northern part of the North Sea. The field has been developed using a subsea solution tied back to the Gull
Cathelco has won an order to supply an impressed current cathodic protection (ICCP) system for the Armada Ali which will safeguard the hull of the vessel against corrosion. The Armada Ali is being converted into an FPSO from the VLCC Osprey, a 301,963 dwt VLCC at the Keppel yard in Singapore. The co
