MacArtney has supplied second TRIAXUS ROTV system for use on the Australia’s Marine National Facility research vessel, the RV Investigator. This TRIAXUS E version features a higher payload capacity and enables the installation of a wide range of sensors targeted to the specific needs of oceanographi
Kitron has entered into an agreement with Magseis to manufacture its Marine Autonomous Seismic System (MASS) nodes.
Claxton has won a contract to provide high-pressure riser and abrasive jet cutting services to the Deep Panuke decommissioning project offshore Canada. The gas field is about 250 km southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the Scotian Shelf. Deep Panuke field ceased production in May 2018 and the opera
DeepOcean has been awarded a contract within the oil and gas sector for the provision of post-lay trenching services along 65-kilometer umbilical offshore Australia. The post-lay trenching works are planned to start late 2018 with the T1 trencher. This contract award has come on the back of three co
Subsea engineering services firm Irish Sea Contractors has launched a new, patented, in-house developed subsea power cable repair solution and in-house subsea jointer training programme. This innovative technology addresses the challenges of lifting subsea cables to the deck of the cable ship for re
The SWARMs European project, of which ACCIONA is a member, is developing vehicles capable of performing complex tasks in underwater environments autonomously, i.e. without the need for human intervention, using Artificial Intelligence. The use of this type of underwater autonomous vehicles will redu
Stena Drilling has contracted Kongsberg Maritime to deliver a complete upgrade of its systems aboard the Stena Carron drillship. Stena Carron is due to dock this November for scheduled 10-year maintenance, during which new K-Pos Dynamic Positioning, K-Chief Automation, K-Thrust Thruster Control and
McDermott International has held a first steel-cutting ceremony at its fabrication yard in Batam, Indonesia, to mark the start of fabrication for the Tyra Redevelopment project. “As the project continues to progress with the completion of engineering, we are moving ahead with fabrication in full com
Subsea technology developer Sonardyne has acquired maritime and marine science technology specialist Chelsea Technologies Group. Sonardyne said that this acquisition is part of its long-term growth strategy to diversify into markets where it sees an opportunity to build on its core technology base a
The Carlyle Group has agreed to acquire the Aberdeen-headquartered mechanical and electrical services specialist EnerMech Group from Lime Rock Partners. The transaction is expected to close in Q4 2018, subject to customary anti-trust and regulatory approvals. Equity for this investment will come fro
UTEC, a part of Acteon, has recently commissioned its new launch and recovery system (LARS) for a fleet of seven autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), used for seabed surveys in the oil and renewables industries. UTEC’s new LARS is a floating garage that enables an AUV to be launched and recovered w
Coretrax said it has saved a North Sea operator more than £500,000 during a well abandonment campaign in the UKCS. The independent wellbore clean-up and abandonment specialist was selected to support the decommissioning of 11 wells and has already saved 28 hours rig time on one well alone. The proje
While the value of the deal has not been officially disclosed, the UK media have reported a figure of around 450 million pounds.
ECE Offshore’s OASYS cable monitoring system has monitored its 100th cable during the installation the Hornsea One export cable installation campaign by the cable-laying vessel Lewek Connector. This milestone was achieved together with DEME’s subsidiary Tideway Offshore Solutions. Reinier Nagtegaal,
