Royal IHC has awarded Pentair Fairbanks Nijhuis an order to supply cooling water, rinsing and gland pumps for two new cutter section dredgers to be built for the Suez Canal Authority (SCA). The order includes supply of a total of 102 pump sets for both vessels. Royal IHC recently received an order f
Deep Down, a Houston-based specialist in deep water oil and gas production and distribution equipment and services, has secured $4.4 million in orders for flying leads and associated equipment, and offshore installation services for the Gulf of Mexico. The orders include over $1 million in offshore
Magma Global has recently added Shawcor’s Thermotite ULTRA insulation to its m-pipe offering. It will be primarily used to improve flow by maintaining the temperature of production fluids. Additionally, the insulation material can be adjusted to add weight or buoyancy to manage stability of the pipe
Autonomous underwater swarm robots and micro-polymers designed to reinstate well integrity, are just some of the new technologies that have secured funding through the Oil & Gas Technology Centre’s TechX Pioneer Accelerator Programme. Nearly 200 applications from over 35 countries were received this
DEME Group has just released this amazing photo of a giant piece of technology that will be installed on their powerful cutter suction dredger (CSD) ‘Spartacus’. “The 2,500 tonne cutter ladder is by far the strongest and most sophisticated ever built,” said DEME in its announcement. The ladder house
Construction of a sand transfer system – the first of its kind on the NSW coast – is progressing well and on schedule at Jimmys Beach near Hawks Nest, informs the MidCoast Council. From this winter, this system will help to maintain a sand buffer to prepare the beach for erosion during severe weathe
Bibby HydroMap has embarked on a large scale UXO survey of Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm sites I & II on behalf of client Vattenfall. Using a multi-vessel approach, Bibby Tethra and Bibby Athena will together acquire over 4,000-line km of high-density magnetometer, side scan sonar, multibea
McDermott and Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE) have been awarded subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) and subsea production system (SPS) equipment contracts by BP for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim natural gas project, located offshore Mauritania and Senegal.
McDermott and BHGE have been awarded subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) and subsea production system (SPS) equipment contracts by BP for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim natural gas project offshore Mauritania and Senegal. McDermott share of the deal is said to be between $500 million – $750 m
Unmanned Survey Solutions (USS) is set to launch a new Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) designed for hydrographic surveys, at Ocean Business in April 2019. The Accession Class USV allows the vessel to increase its base design length of 3.5m to a maximum of 5.0m for additional payload equipment and/or p
ACE Winches has delivered a new product for the installation and pull-in of two steel catenary risers (SCR) on the Buckskin deepwater development, located in the Gulf of Mexico. The client required a significantly smaller riser pull-in equipment package than the traditional model to be incorporated
L3 Technologies has been awarded a contract for an Iver3 EP unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) from the University of Southern Mississippi (USM). The Iver3 UUV will be used by the Division of Marine Science within the School of Ocean Science and Engineering. The Division of Marine Science offers the
AML Oceanographic has secured a deal to supply Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP) systems for Fugro’s unmanned surface vessel (USV). The USV solution, designed for medium- to large-scale hydrographic survey applications, is currently in development with L3 ASV, and the first unit is scheduled for delivery
Frontera, in cooperation with Maritime Developments Ltd. (MDL), has secured cable lay scope from Sapura Energy for Eni Amoca Miztón project offshore Mexico. The contract is due to begin in March 2019, Frontera informed. The Frontera-MDL scope includes provision and operation of the cable lay equipme
