Ifremer announced a tender for ROV engineering services in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. The tender encompasses the study, engineering and testing of the new HROV winch assembly. These would afterwards be installed on Ifremer’s vessels. The project should last about 9 months from the date of the cont
DP World Sokhna, the Red Sea commercial gateway to Egypt’s capital Cairo, has received two new STS (ship-to-shore) gantry cranes in a further boost to productivity at the container facility operated by global marine terminal operator DP World. The two cranes, manufactured by ZPMC of China, were brou
Jersey Electricity announces that the energy bills will rise in the future because of the malfunction of its two underwater cables. At the end of April there was an electrical fault which needs to be replaced on a section of the Channel Islands grid between Guernsey and Jersey. According to BBC News
As reported by ABC News, Inpex, an energy giant, in preparation for a dredging project in Darwin Harbour, will survey the harbour floor. Starting this week the survey will commence. Divers, survey boats as well as barges will begin the project in the channel area. Inpex needs the survey data to get
According to The Trinidad Express, The Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) is trying to find a solution to its submarine cable failure between Trinidad and Tobago. T&TEC’s General Manager Kelvin Ramsook stated that a public tender was approved for the number two submarine cable. This
A France-based international oilfield services provider Technip has been awarded by Apache Energy Ltd a subsea installation contract worth approximately A$60 million (about €50 million) for the Balnaves oil field development, located in the Carnarvon Basin, offshore North Western Australia, at a wat
Technip was awarded by Apache Energy Ltd a subsea installation contract worth approximately $60 million (about €50 million) for the Balnaves oil field development, located in the Carnarvon Basin, offshore North Western Australia, at a water depth of approximately 135 meters. The contract includes th
Matrix Composites & Engineering announced that it has been awarded new contracts totaling USD$48.2 million for the supply of drilling riser buoyancy, centralisers and distributed buoyancy for use in subsea development and onshore environments. Drilling Products The contracts to manufacture and suppl
Dragflow, a worldwide player in solid pumping solutions, has announced the installation of two new dredgers, one in Northern Europe (Estonia) and the second in Southern Europe (Italy). Two projects that shows Dragflow’s ability to adapt easily to the different contexts and applications in which the
Reef Subsea AS announced today that its subsidiary company, Reef Subsea Power & Umbilical Ltd. with offices in Stockton on Tees and Aberdeen, has been awarded a major contract with Gwynt y Mor Offshore Wind Farm Limited, worth approximately £40m (61.9 million USD). It will see Reef Subsea Power & Um
OSIL are reporting an unprecedented level of interest in relation to their Giant Piston Corer, which offers the ability to retrieve core samples up to 30m in length from sediments at full ocean depth. The Giant Piston Corer is capable of achieving varying core lengths of up to 30m in soft, cohesive
A new well control incident study reveals significant gaps between causes in investigation reports and the viewpoints cited by professionals in interviews. The industry should, among other things, investigate more well control incidents and implement more technical measures. While the results from t
Stork Technical Services (Stork), the leading global provider of knowledge-based asset integrity management services for the oil & gas, chemical and power sectors, today announces the opening of its in-house FM (fabric maintenance) training centre at its facility in Aberdeen, UK. Stork invested arou
On Thursday, Reliance Communications Ltd’s undersea cable unit filed a preliminary prospectus for an initial public offering in Singapore. According to Reuters, this deal could secure about $1 billion and help the company regarding its debt. Since March the company has made several unsuccessful atte
