In 2017, a petrochemical customer approached Ellicott Dredges about building a customized electric bucketwheel dredge. The customized dredge had to be designed to withstand desert-like conditions, the Baltimore-based builder of medium sized cutter suction dredges said in its announcement. The most s
Norwegian offshore vessel owner Reach Subsea has said it has signed “a larger contract with an international energy company” for the vessel Olympic Challenger.
Royal IHC has signed a contract with CNOOC to provide the engineering, procurement and construction of a comprehensive offloading system. This will consist of crude oil and LPG offloading reels, in addition to a tandem mooring system, a hydraulic power unit and equipment controls. The offloading sys
Microsoft chose Naval Group to implement Phase 2 of its underwater datacenter project, also called Project Natick. The Datacenter was deployed in early June 2018 off the Orkney Archipelago, and will be operated for a period of one year. Eric Papin, Naval Group’s director of Innovation and Technologi
Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract by Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) to deliver ST2400 variable depth sonar (VDS) upgrades to the SQ2000MLU program for the Hamina-Class Corvettes fleet. The ST2400 VDS is designed to provide accurate and highly reliable performance for detecting submarines, mine
Nautilus Minerals has started wet testing of its new seafloor diamond drill rig, which the company has developed to relieve the drilling requirements of its future exploration programs. The scope of the testing is to check the operational functionality of the drill rig’s control systems, landing cap
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Scripps) and the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington (APL-UW) have selected Wave Gliders to conduct advanced scientific research in the remote regions of the Arctic and Southern Oceans. Using Liquid Robotics’ Wave Gliders scientists will ob
A collaboration between independent environmental hydraulics consultancy and research organisation, HR Wallingford, and the University of Salento (UniSalento), will see the creation of a hydraulic laboratory on the university’s Ecotekne Campus at Lecce in the South of Italy. A framework agreement, o
Stromag engineering team recently designed a hybrid Periflex CR (PCR) shaft coupling for a manufacturer of dredging systems who needed a reliable coupling solution with a small footprint for use on a new dredging vessel platform. “The system features a 1200 HP diesel engine that drives a complex, cu
The first of 20 suction bucket jackets has been installed at Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm. It is the first time that Ørsted utilises this type of foundation in one of their wind farms on a large scale. Namely, the new foundation is a further development from the first installation
Ionada BV has announced the signing of a Pilot Agreement with Van Oord to conduct trials of Ionada’s Semi-Dry Scrubbing technology onboard the hopper dredger Lelystad. The Pilot trials will consist of retrofitting one of the Lelystad’s two main engines with Ionada’s Semi-Dry scrubbing system. The Pi
Aberdeen-based subsea cable and connector specialist Hydro Group has been awarded a contract with Korea Research of Ships & Ocean Engineering (KRISO), worth in the region of £750,000. The scope of work saw Hydro Group deliver subsea cable and connectors to the first phase of KRISO’s floating wind an
Prysmian and General Cable have obtained clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) for the proposed acquisition of General Cable by Prysmian. This clearance was the last of the regulatory approvals sought in connection with the transaction. As previously announc
Tekmar, technology provider of protection systems for subsea cables, umbilicals and flexible pipes and offshore engineering services, has said it intends to seek admission of its shares to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange, expected to take place in June 2018. The Group operates
