Kobelco Construction Machinery America introduced the SK170 full-size, high-performance excavator to the Kobelco Mark 9 excavator series. These new Tier 4 models include the SK210, SK260, SK295, SK350 and SK485 Mark 9 excavators. The versatile SK170 Mark 9 delivers up to a 10-percent improvement in
GE Energy announces that it is investing $10 million in the development of a new Oil & Gas Training Facility to support and advance training and development for its customers and employees. Training at the facility will focus on customer, technical and leadership skills aimed to meet the changing ne
Transinsight announces a five year licensing agreement with Statoil for IGMAS+ (Interactive Geophysical Modeling Assistant), Transinsight’s software for interactive hybrid full tensor gravity (FTG) and magnetic modeling. IGMAS+ easily integrates constraining data into interactive modeling processes
Siemens Industry, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a contract to equip two U.S. Navy Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research (AGOR) vessels with its unique diesel electric propulsion solution at Dakota Creek Industries Inc. (DCI), located in Anacortes, Wash. Seattle-based Naval Architecture
The subsea electricity cable serving Guernsey and Jersey has experienced a power cut, and due to that it has been taken out of action. According to BBC, Guernsey Electricity stated that the experts are trying to find the cause of the fault. The company explained that the underwater cable, which link
The trend of cargo segregation, and increased number of below-deck-transported chemicals for the offshore industry, triggered PG to develop Deepwell-pump solutions for OSV’s. These units are low shear, high efficiency, twin-screw pumps built in stainless / duplex steel which allow for a wide range o
Kvaerner is preparing for a significant growth in its home market and invests approximately NOK 250 million in upgrades of its facilities at Stord. The major investments will be increased lifting and trailing capacity, including a new Goliath gantry crane. “We have won some major contracts and are p
The Mexican geographic information systems and surveying company Sistemas de Información Geográfica, S.A. de C.V. has purchased an airborne LiDAR system Chiroptera. SIGSA expands its offer to its customers by now integrating bathymetry surveying into its product offering. The Swedish LiDAR manufactu
Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, announces the release of the new airborne Optech CZMIL Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar system. Optech CZMIL is an innovative airborne coastal zone mapping system that produces
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced it has secured a contract from Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., Petrobras, to supply approximately 200 kilometers, or 125 miles, of thermoplastic production control umbilicals for field development projects offshore Brazil in the Santos Basin. This contract has add
Oceaneering, a global oilfield provider of engineered services and products primarily to the offshore oil and gas industry has received an order from Brazilian oil giant Petrobras, for the supply of approximately 200 kilometers, or 125 miles, of thermoplastic production control umbilicals for field
Gulf Bridge International (GBI), the Middle East’s first carrier neutral regional network, and Xtera Communications Inc. (Xtera), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, announced what is believed to be the first commercial repeatered submarine cable system in service with 100G te
Chevron Corporation announced that the Pacific Santa Ana, a deepwater drillship built to Chevron’s specifications, has arrived in the Gulf of Mexico to work for Chevron under a five-year contract. Pacific Santa Ana is the first drillship designed with the capacity to perform dual gradient drilling (
Dril-Quip, a U.S. based company that designs, manufactures and sells drilling and production equipment today announced net income of $28.8 million, for the quarter ended March 31, 2012, compared to net income of $21.7 million for the first quarter of 2011. Total revenues were $177.1 million during t
