Core Grouting Services, an Acteon company, has successfully commissioned a new high volume, high strength grout mixing and pumping unit. The equipment is specifically designed for mixing and pumping high strength grout with a compressive strength of >100 MPa. These grouts are used in offshore founda
Freight and logistics management company Kotahi and New Zealand’s freight gateway Port of Tauranga have struck a strategic ten-year freight alliance. This, along with a separate long-term agreement between Kotahi and Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company, will deliver a ‘step-c
Nature Group PLC, the provider of port reception facilities and waste treatment solutions for the oil, marine and process industries, has announced that its subsidiary, Nature Oil & Gas AS, has been awarded a two year contract by North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. The contract concerns the deployment of a
Statoil today enters into a frame agreement with Kvaerner for the delivery of jackets for the North Sea in the period up to 2020. At the same time, the companies will sign a letter of intent for the delivery of two jackets to the Johan Sverdrup field. The frame agreement gives Kvaerner the opportuni
Tug Fairmount Summit has towed the jack-up rig West Ariel safely from Vung Tau, Vietnam, to Singapore. The towage over a distance of 1,305 miles was performed in seven days with an average speed of 4 knots. The West Ariel, a Kfels B class independent leg cantilever jack-up rig, was built in 2008 by
Chesapeake Technology Inc. (CTI), a world leader in real-time acquisition and GIS based processing software for seafloor mapping, has announced a major advance to its flagship software SonarWiz processing with the addition of a Real-Time Acquisition Server for the EdgeTech 4600 and recently introduc
Subsea 7 has selected BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, to supply the riser monitoring system for the Aasta Hansteen Spar, approximately 300 km off the coast of Norway. The integrated system includes an innovative suite of remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV
After the arrival of the second set of rolling gates, the Panama Canal Expansion keeps moving forward reaching a new milestone at the Pacific side with the pouring of more than two million cubic meters of concrete. “This is another milestone that shows the progress of various components of the Canal
GE Oil & Gas today announced it will provide vital surface equipment to Mexico’s national oil company Pemex for use at its offshore project in the Ayatsil heavy oil field located in the Campeche Sound, in the Gulf of Mexico. The multi-year contract includes the installation of GE’s surface wellheads
Further building on its long-standing partnerships with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), GE Oil & Gas has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Petroleum Institute University & Research Center (PI) to provide specialized training programs, summer internship opportunities and education
Nova Scotia’s Minister of Energy and Minister of Communications, Andrew Younger today visited Siemens’ SeaGen tidal energy turbine at Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland. Siemens-owned Marine Current Turbines (MCT) is pushing ahead with even more ambitious innovation in Canada with the SeaGen-F float
Rowan Companies, a U.S.-based offshore drilling contractor has received a contract for its Gorilla IV jack-up rig. The one-well contract with Fieldwood Energy in the Gulf of Mexico started in mid-June 2014 at $125,000 per day, below the previous day rate of $180,000. The rig was idle for 19 days dur
Starting June 25, UH Mānoa will lead an expedition to Loihi Seamount, southeast of the island of Hawaii, whose base remains largely unexplored. Dr. Brian Glazer, lead scientist and Associate Professor of Oceanography, his team from UHM, and colleagues from the University of Minnesota, IFREMER Centre
Ulstein’s Power & Control area has been awarded the pre-commissioning contracts for all four PX121 designed PSVs under construction at SWS Offshore for Pacific Radiance.
