Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR), DEME’s subsidiary specialised in deep sea harvesting, has introduced the nodule collector ‘Patania II’. The pre-protoype is the successor of the tracked soil testing device ‘Patania I’, which was successfully tested during a 2017 expedition in the Central Pacific
Completions service company Tendeka has appointed Davor Saric as its new technology director to help deliver the company’s next generation of disruptive technologies. Saric joins Tendeka having been involved in numerous global field developments and redevelopments as a production technology / petrol
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (September 17 – September 23). https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/09/17/deepocean-launches-offshore-services-base-at-port-of-blyth/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/09/20/hydra-steps-into-saturation-divi
Dragflow recently supplied a hydraulic pump HY85A and hydraulic power pack for the Marina di Militello harbor dredging project in Italy. According to the Italian manufacturer of dredging equipment, the client asked for a versatile solution to address the problem of sand sedimentation close to the pi
Canadian government is investing CA$29.8 million in support of Halagonia Tidal Energy’s $117-million marine renewable energy project which aims to provide 9MW of clean electricity to Nova Scotia. The project should cut pollution from power generation in Nova Scotia, which currently relies on fossil
ABB’s security, monitoring and communications technology has been installed on the 1,850 km Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP). The first phase, ‘Gas to Eskisehir’ officially opened in early summer 2018 ahead of schedule. ABB provided the security, telecommunications, SCADA main control ro
MacArtney has supplied Moog Focal LVEOS Swivel to Norwegian turret and loading systems provider. The Low Voltage Electrical Optical Swivel (LVEOS) is intended for inclusion into a swivel stack for a FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading vessel). OneSubsea, a Schlumberger company, will su
TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity company, has secured a contract from connectivity and data center solutions provider, MainOne, to extend its active submarine cable system into West Africa’s francophone region with two additional branches connecting Senegal (Dakar) and Cote D’Ivoire (Abidjan). These new
ABB has provided the TANAP pipeline with its largest ever fully integrated control and security system.
K2 Management, the specialist renewables engineering consultancy, has agreed to acquire independent energy engineering consultancy, Cruz Atcheson. Founded in 2015, Cruz Atcheson specializes in three key areas in the wave, tidal and floating wind sector: concept design, due diligence support and proj
Waterking, a Dutch manufacturer of amphibious equipment, has sold a WK 300 NG-5 to a customer in Germany. This machine will be used for maintenance dredging in the area of Leipzig/Berlin. The excavated soil will be transported to a dump site with barges and or split barges, said the company. The exc
Wasa Dredging, a Finnish marine offshore and inland water construction company, has purchased a new backhoe to join their fleet as the fourth of Wasa Dredging backhoe dredgers. The new backhoe, named ‘Harald’, is equipped with an 250 ton EX2500 excavator from Hitachi, the company said in their lates
A consortium comprising AARNet, Google, Indosat Ooredoo, Singtel, SubPartners and Telstra have marked a milestone in the implementation of the INDIGO subsea cable system with the landing of the INDIGO West cable at Floreat Beach in Perth. This marks the completion of work to lay the first section of
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a coalition of academic and oceanographic research organizations a five-year, $220 million contract to operate and maintain the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The coalition, led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), with directio
