Royal IHC yesterday held a keel-laying ceremony for the Easydredge 3.700m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) that is being built for Tecnoimport and Empresa Constructora de Obras Maritimas from Havana, Cuba. The new vessel is the largest in the series of standardized Easydredge® twin-screw TSHD
Wood has been awarded three contracts to perform subsea and flow assurance studies for Woodside in Senegal, West Africa, supporting the proposed SNE field development in the Rufisque, Sangomar and Sangomar deep offshore blocks. Delivered by Wood’s technical experts in Australia and the UK, the contr
Canadian producer of remotely operated vehicles SEAMOR has added a new ROV to its product line – the Mako ROV. Named after the shark, the Mako ROV is capable of carrying 14 kilograms as a standard build, and is upgradeable to 22.5 kilograms. A standard Mako measures 840 mm x 635 mm x 674 mm (LxWxH)
ABS has been selected by Seacor Marine to class the first offshore support vessel in the Gulf of Mexico to operate using hybrid power.
BP has awarded Kongsberg a contract to design, engineer, build, install, and perform acceptance testing of a digital twin for the Mad Dog Phase 2 project.
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) today released the panel investigation report on the May 11, 2016 subsea jumper leak on a platform operated by Shell. The leak from Green Canyon Block 248 occurred on subsea well No.4, resulting in an estimated release of 1,926 barrels of oil
Subsea engineering consultancy and training specialist Jee Limited has moved offices in Aberdeen as it continues to grow its workforce. Last year Jee increased the engineering arm of the company by 30% to cover the growing project load and due to its strong business model has instigated another 20%
BP has awarded Kongsberg Digital a contract to design, engineer, build, install, and perform acceptance testing of a custom-built multi-purpose dynamic simulator (MPDS) for the Mad Dog Phase 2 project in the Gulf of Mexico. Kongsberg’s digital twin models will be connected to the Mad Dog 2 facility-
McDermott and Baker Hughes, a GE company, have been selected for front-end engineering design (FEED) studies in advance of a $500 million – $750 million engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for BP’s Tortue/Ahmeyim field development, a major gas project located on t
Atlas Elektronik’s subsidiary Atlas Maridan ApS. of Rungsted Kyst (Denmark) has informed that will add autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) rental service to its portfolio. The opportunity to rent Atlas Elektronik’s unmanned underwater technology will support customers within the offshore oil and gas
Comex Innovation has appointed RUCO Limited as its exclusive sales agent for UK and the North Sea region. Comex is a provider of the ORUS 3D underwater photogrammetric acquisition and processing service, a non-intrusive system designed to be easily interfaced to most remotely operated vehicles (ROVs
Tullow Oil subsidiary, Tullow Ghana, has awarded a 2.5 km flowline supply deal to Magma Global for its Tweneboa, Enyenra, Ntomme (TEN) fields project in Ghana. The 6 inch spoolable carbon composite m-pipe will be deployed from a 10 meter diameter reel with a 20-ton tensioner, and the total weight of
Unique Group has taken delivery from Teledyne Marine of two 110VAC HydroPACT 660 pipe tracking systems for its pool of rental equipment. The HydroPACT 660 is a small form factor pipe and cable tracking system. The HydroPACT 660 brings pipe tracking capabilities to smaller classes of ROV, for applica
Forum Subsea Technologies and BluHaptics have entered a joint agreement enabling technologies from both companies to be combined to provide solutions for ROV and subsea engineering applications. The VMAX Software is a 3D ROV simulation product, which is used for training and evaluation of ROV pilots
