Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has delivered 13 large azimuth thrusters to the world’s largest construction vessel, currently being built at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, South Korea for Swiss ship owner and operator Allseas Group. The contract is worth around £18 million
The Pieter Schelte features a unique design concept with a displacement at full load of nearly 900,000 tonnes. It is capable of lifting 48,000 tonnes and the pipelay tension capacity will be 2,000 tonnes, doubling the capacity of the world’s current largest pipelay vessel, Allseas’ Solitaire.
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® method of wellhead engineering, announces that Eni S.p.A, the Italian oil and gas major, and Oil States Industries Inc. a subsidiary of Oil States International Inc., a leading USA ma
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a contract valued at approximately $95 million in the UK Central North Sea with an international oil and gas operator. The contract scope includes the project management, engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation of a 7.5km pipeline bundle containing
IceBlue Refrigeration Offshore, the newest company within the Ferguson Group, is celebrating its first successful year in business supplying specialist refrigeration containers to the global offshore energy sector. IceBlue Refrigeration Offshore was formed last year in response to the increasing mar
Leading marine contractor Gardline Geosurvey has selected Sonardyne International’s Ranger 2 USBL tracking system as part of a multi vessel upgrade programme. By equipping its survey vessels with Sonardyne’s latest generation acoustic technology platform, Gardline will now benefit from Ranger 2’s ab
S.D.E Ltd., the leading company in the world in electricity production from sea wave energy, is planning to build its unique sea wave energy power plants along the costal line of Ecuador main land and the island of Galapagos. SDE was selected by a team of international scientists as number one in th
TTS Group ASA, Bergen has through its subsidiary Company TTS ships equipment AS secured four contracts with STX OSV Brattvaag building, STX OSV Soviknes and Kleven Maritime in a total value of 30 MNOK (USD 5 million). The contracts with STX OSV Brattvaag relate to vessel no. 793 and vessel no.794 fo
The world has finite hydrocarbon resources and conventional oil reserves are particularly in short supply. Furthermore, conventional oil resources from the Middle East are very much under threat of disruption as embargoes on Iranian oil exports come into full effect at the end of June 2012. However,
Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s biggest shipbuilder and a leading marine engine manufacturer, today announced it started exporting the eco-friendly gas engine Hyundai HiMSEN H35/40GV after completing test runs on June 18. The new gas engine runs on liquefied natural gas rather than heavy crude
Kleven Maritime, a technology-focused shipbuilding company whose primary activities include the fitting out and delivery of specialised vessels, announced on Saturday that the new dock arrived at Myklebust Verft. With the new, larger dock, the yard can now offer docking facilities also for large off
Chelsea Technologies Group is addressing the challenges of effective monitoring of rivers, estuaries and coastal regions against outflow events from waste water treatment works and farm slurry. These challenges have been driven by the EU Bathing Waters Directive, which will introduce new tighter reg
Stroud based green energy company, Ecotricity, is planning to generate power from sea waves. Founder Dale Vince said to Utility Week that the company is on track to deploy the Searaser prototype by autumn. Searaser pumps seawater using a vertical piston between two buoys – one on the surface of the
This is an important assignment for our offshore operations, and we look forward to continuing the good cooperation with Statoil, says Pål Egil Rønn, CEO of the AF Group.
