BIRNS, Inc.’s world-class molding facility is now NAVSEA S9320-AM-PRO-020 certified. The US Navy’s Submarine Maintenance Engineering, Planning and Procurement (SUBMEPP) department recently awarded the certification to BIRNS for Molding and Inspection Procedures for Fabricating Connector Plugs for Su
IHC Offshore Systems, part of IHC Merwede, announces it has been awarded a rental contract for the Noise Mitigation System NMS-6900. Dutch offshore contractor Seaway Heavy Lifting will operate the NMS-6900 during the installation of 30 monopile foundations for the Riffgat offshore wind farm off the
A fixed platform has been selected by Statoil and its partners for the Dagny oil and gas discovery in the North Sea, while the Eirin gas field is to be developed with a subsea solution. Gas from Dagny will be exported through a tie-back to the infrastructure on Sleipner East, while offshore loading
The largest crane system constructed to date by J D Neuhaus has been delivered to Westcon Lofteteknikk AS (WCL) of Norway for use on an offshore drilling rig. The semi portal design comprises an A-frame supporting twin overhead horizontal track beams providing a 7.5 metre span. The crane has an appr
As well as being a renewable energy success , SeaGen, the world’s first commercial tidal current energy turbine is also an environmental success. The tidal turbine, designed and deployed by Marine Current Turbines Ltd (MCT) and located in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough has had no major impact o
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. (FET) announces the sale of a Sub-Atlantic™ Mojave™ Observation Remote Operated Vehicle System (ROV) to the St. Clair County, Michigan Sheriff’s Office Marine Division. The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office maintains a Marine Division with over 50 part-time officers w
Subsea 7 S.A. announced today the award of a SURF contract valued at approximately $60 million from Santos Limited on the Fletcher-Finucane Development offshore Western Australia. The contract scope includes the project management , engineering and installation of: approximately 55km of flexible flo
In the last week of 2011, Damen Dredging Equipment delivered, as the very last cutter suction dredger of the year, the CSD500 “Conchas”. Its owner, the UK based company Marina and Ports Services, ordered the dredger mid October. In a mere 2 months the standard dredger was taken from Damen’s stock an
OceanWorks International announces the delivery of two high power nodes to Harris CapRock Communications (HCC) as part of the Offshore Communications Backbone (OCB) system. The high power nodes represent an expansion of the successful OCB system which also includes the CSnet Tsunami Warning and Earl
BlueView Technologies, the world leader in compact acoustic imaging and measurement technology, and Outland Technology, Inc., a ROV manufacturer in Slidell, Louisana with a combined 60+ years in Electronics and Undersea work signed a Systems Integrator Agreement that enables Outland to re-sell BlueV
Chinese photoelectric cable producer for the first time exported its submarine fiber optic cables to the European and American marketplace. Production of these hi-tech products has been dominated for a long time by a few corporations in France, the United States and Japan, explained Zhongtian Techno
Caley Ocean Systems has supplied two, large capacity, 2,500 tonne turntables to Global Marine Systems Ltd (GMSL) to handle deployment of non-coilable cables from their vessel CS Sovereign. Caley has worked closely with GMSL, and their naval architects, to design the two turntables such that they can
Matrix has received its first purchase order worth $1.8 million through its new office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The order is from one of the world’s leading deep-water drilling contractors. Matrix will supply the new riser buoyancy to replace damaged modules on a drillship that will be used off th
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, announces that it has received £260,000 funding from Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited (‘Maersk Oil UK’), a leading independent oil and gas
