Curvetech engineers at Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) have completed the build and test of range of hydraulic thrusters for French subsea cable installation engineering firm Louis Dreyfus TravOcean. SMD’s Curvetech HTE_500BA and HTE_430-63 thrusters are destined for use on a large subsea trenching vehi
Vallourec, tubular solutions specialist, has signed new contracts for the supply of products and services to the Brazilian national oil company Petrobras. In the framework of these 3 years, Vallourec said it will supply Petrobras’ operations with OCTG products and associated accessories, with premiu
Aquabotix has named Whitney Million its new chief executive officer as David Batista stepped down from his position just four months after his appointment. Million will also join the company as the president and CEO of the U.S. subsidiary, Aquabotix Technology Corporation, prior to April 18, 2018. T
MacArtney Germany has supplied multibeam echo sounder systems to Geo Group for hydrographic and geophysical surveys. The deliveries made by MacArtney have been distributed to four GEO subsidiaries. Geo Ingenieurservice Süd has taken delivery of Teledyne Reson SeaBat T50-P, SBG Ekinox2D, Valeport SVP
C-Innovation, an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has secured a three-year contract with BP. The contract encompasses subsea construction, inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) and logistics services in the Gulf of Mexico. With Port Fourchon, Louisiana serving
Vallourec has signed new contracts for the supply of products and services to the Brazilian national oil company Petrobras.
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Nord Stream 2 AG has received consent for the use of the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) for the construction of the planned natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Finnish Government approved the 374-kilometers-long section running through Finnish EEZ outside territorial waters. The EEZ perm
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has just introduced a new article in their newly redesigned Terra et Aqua, named ‘Is high quality sediment monitoring worth its weight in gold?’. According to the article’s authors, Neil Crossouard, Dr Mark Lee and Dr Jonathon Taylor of HR W
Nexans has completed the manufacturing of the 220 kV offshore cable for the high voltage power export connection for 588 MW Beatrice offshore wind farm. The cable has been loaded onto the Skagerrak cable laying vessel for the journey across the North Sea to the Moray Firth, where it will be installe
MHWirth has firmed up a $100 million worth drilling equipment order with Keppel FELS for a new semi-submersible rig which will be built for Awilco Drilling.
Semco Maritime has been selected by a joint venture between Canadian power producer Northland Power Inc. (NPI) and Taiwan-based Yushan Energy for an engineering study for the Hai Long offshore wind farm in the Changhua area in Taiwan. The scope of the study comprises optimization of the electrical i
Statoil has confirmed a four-year firm contract to Archer for the provision of “drilling services fixed platforms” on a total of 12 platforms located on the NCS. The contract award includes three contract extension options of two years each. The contract is effective from October 1, 2018 following a
Royal IHC has been awarded a contract for the delivery of dredge pumps by Luxembourg-based Jan De Nul Group. The agreement incorporates two onboard double-walled dredge pumps for the company’s new 18,000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD), as well as onboard single-walled dredge pumps for two
