French offshore cabling specialist Nexans’ on Monday saw the first steel cutting ceremony for its new DP3 cable laying vessel, the C/S Aurora.
Kraken Robotics has received $1.7 million purchase orders from Ocean Infinity for the AquaPix Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) sensors and support. Product delivery is expected during Q1 and Q2, 2019. According to the company, this is the second set of purchase orders from Ocean Infinity under an init
Marlinks has secured a contract from Northwester 2 and Nexans to monitor the burial depth of six infield cables and one export cable of the Northwester 2 offshore wind farm in Belgium. Both the export and infield cables will be equipped with Marlinks’ distributed temperature sensing (DTS) measuremen
Royal Smals, a Dutch company involved in hydraulic and civil-engineering works, has just released a video about their work in the Lichtenau area in Germany. The project, undertaken for the client Joos Umwelttechnik GmbH, included dredging of a significant amount of sand, gravel and clay from a forme
Diving systems manufacturer and supplier, Pommec, has received an order to build the eTWIN, a fully electrical driven twin basket diver Launch and Recovery System (LARS) from BC-opleidingen, a diving school in the Netherlands. The Pommec LARS will give the diving school extra opportunities to train
Helix Energy Solutions reported a net loss of $13.7 million, or 9 cents per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to net income of $50.6 million, or 34 cents per diluted share, for the same period in 2017. Sequentially, Helix booked net income of $27.1 million, or 18 cents per dilut
Almaz-Antey, Russia’s famous missile maker and one of the world’s largest defense system contractors, has signed a contract with Gazprom to supply the energy company with subsea production systems, in a move to cut reliance on imported subsea oil and gas technology.
Transocean has entered into an agreement with Equinor to license and install Automated Drilling Control systems on four high-specification, harsh environment rigs currently on contract in Norway and a fifth semi-submersible that is expected to start operations in the Norwegian Sea this summer.
Gazprom and Almaz-Antey Corporation have signed a contract for batch manufacturing of subsea production equipment. The deal was signed by Alexey Miller, chairman of the Gazprom management committee, and Yan Novikov, chairman of the management board, director general of the Almaz-Antey Corporation, a
The first two of a total 500 offshore wind turbine foundations have been designed and fabricated for SPIC Guangdong Offshore Wind Power’s project in China’s Guangdong province. The monopiles, designed by Ramboll, are said to be the largest in the world – weighing 1,600 tonnes each, compared to the c
Marine engineering experts Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) has produced a new and compact autonomous profiling winch that will operate unmanned for 30 days. OSIL were approached with a requirement for a 24V waterproof winch system to mount to existing automated surface vehicle systems. The
Subcon has completed multiple pipeline supports using its engineered solution. Support for the 32-inch TurkStream pipeline was required where the seabed transitioned from the continental shelf to deep water. Multiple grouted supports were installed at this location to reduce pipeline stresses during
The 15-month OPEC (Offshore Platform for Energy Competitiveness) feasibility project has produced a number of conclusions and recommendations which may be taken forward if further funding can be sourced. OPEC, explored the technical and economic feasibility of using large offshore floating platforms
SubCom’s cable ship SubCom Reliance has completed the repair of two Tongan submarine cables. The Tonga Cable and the Tonga Domestic Cable were damaged on January 20, 2019. Upon notification of the break, SubCom Reliance was mobilized and completed the necessary repairs to both cables within eight da
