Construction of DEME’s 2,300m³ new trailing suction hopper dredger has officially kicked off with a steel cutting ceremony at Royal IHC’s Batam shipyard in Indonesia. The compact hopper design ensures high maneuverability and optimized dredging works, said DEME. Built to the requirements of classifi
Coretrax, the independent wellbore clean-up and abandonment specialist, said it has received a substantial investment from private equity firm Buckthorn Partners to accelerate its international growth plans. The Aberdeen headquartered company, which supports global well construction, completion and
Fugro has received the Marine Technology Society (MTS) 2018 Compass Industrial Award for outstanding private sector contributions to marine science and technology. In selecting Fugro for the honour, MTS cited the company’s legacy of marine survey innovation and its industry-leading support of The Ni
OceanGate CEO, Stockton Rush, has successfully piloted the world’s only privately-owned deep diving 5-person submersible, Titan, on a solo 4,000 meter dive. Rush joins James Cameron as only the second person in history to complete a solo dive to this depth. “This deep dive is a major milestone for O
London-based independent oil & gas company Chrysaor is looking to continue its shopping spree as Reuters on Thursday said the company was looking to buy Chevron’s North Sea fields.
Waterking, a Dutch manufacturer of amphibious equipment, said in its latest announcement that they successfully delivered a dredging set for a ministry of agriculture in South America earlier this week. According to the release, the equipment is purchased for the dredging operations on the drainage
Oceanographic equipment manufacturer Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) has supplied 3 Marine Snow Catchers to a Norwegian institute for use in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica on a 5-month research cruise. Marine Snow Catchers are large volume water samplers with separable top and bottom se
L3 OceanServer has been awarded a contract to support the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command for an Iver3 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) to be used for testing and evaluation. Over the past four years, L3 OceanServer has leveraged hundreds of thousands of operational hours on Iver vehicles to buil
The Ocean Energy Scale-up Alliance (OESA) coordinated by the Dutch Marine Energy Centre from the Netherlands has been awarded to implement an innovative Pilot Accelerator Programme. In this programme, organisations work together to support the accelerated deployment of ocean energy pilots in the Nor
MacArtney has renewed an exclusive deal with SeaTech China to sell and distribute SubConn and OptoLink connectors within the Chinese market. SeaTech is the sole distributor of SubConn and OptoLink connectors for MacArtney in China and has actively promoted SubConn and OptoLink connectors over the la
France has engaged the environmental expertise of Jan De Nul Group to clean up the oil-polluted beaches along the Mediterranean Sea. This week, Envisan, the environmental subsidiary of the dredging and construction company, signed a contract with the French company Le Floch Dépollution for cleaning
Sif Holding has received a production contract from Dredging International for the 58 monopiles and the primary steel of the transition pieces for SeaMade offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Ostend, Belgium. The transition pieces will be manufactured in joint venture with Smulders in Hoboke
Survey specialist EGS said it has just completed two geotechnical campaigns for international offshore wind farm developers in Taiwan. EGS mobilized a DP2 vessel with a purpose-built 40 tons SWL heave compensated deployment system over the centerline moonpool for a 200kN seabed CPT unit. The geotech
Subsea services group Acteon has acquired Houston-based corrosion specialist Deepwater Corrosion Services. According to Acteon, the addition of Deepwater’s expertise and portfolio should strengthen its integrity management abilities of critical subsea infrastructure throughout the life of a field. D
