Norway-based well engineering and consultancy company Ridge has acquired a Norwegian oil and gas consultancy company Ocean Maxwell, owned fully by founder Cecilie Sælen. With this acquisition, Ridge believes it will further enhance the ability of the company to best serve the needs of new and existi
Roll Group, a heavy shipping company, was recently called by client Van Oord to transport the cutter suction dredger ‘Ural River’. The operation started with the float-in of the dredger. When this was done, 84 and 53 pipes with a width of respectively 1.35 and 1.69 meters, and a length of almost 12
TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity company, has signed a system supplier contract for the HAVFRUE cable system with a consortium including Aqua Comms, Bulk Infrastructure, Facebook, and others. HAVFRUE, the Danish word for mermaid, will connect mainland Northern Europe to the USA. The system is comprised
Defence and security company Saab will demonstrate its anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training system, the AUV62-AT, for the U.S. Navy. The AUV62-AT is an artificial acoustic system that mimics a submarine. The Navy will evaluate Saab’s AUV62-AT against its systems through the ‘Foreign Comparative Tes
Ridge, a well engineering and consultancy company, has acquired Ocean Maxwell, a Norwegian oil and gas consultancy company owned by founder Cecilie Sælen.
Vattenfall has finalized the installation of 49 foundations for Denmark’s largest wind farm, Horns Rev 3, in the North Sea north-west of Blåvands Huk. The installation vessel Innovation has carried out the work. The farm will be in full operation and ready to cover 425,000 Danish households’ annual
ABS, a provider of classification and technical services to the global offshore industry, granted Approval in Principle (AIP) to Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) hull design. “The Newbuilding Conversion FPSO hull design can be built for about half the
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has reached an agreement with an undisclosed subsea contractor to buy back their 800-ton carousel which can be deployed on a range of specialist subsea projects. The carousel was originally built and used on an offshore renewables project in 2014 after ESS identified a su
Oceaneering International has secured a contract from Statoil to supply umbilicals for the Johan Castberg project in the Barents Sea. The contract is for dynamic and static control umbilicals, totaling approximately 39 kilometers in length, and associated hardware. Oceaneering plans to design and ma
Wood is providing EirGrid Group, Ireland’s state-owned transmission system operator and France’s counterpart Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE), with subsea engineering services to the Celtic Interconnector project. The new contract, supported by Wood’s Galway, Paris and London offices, include
Aker Solutions will be providing duty holder or ‘installation operator’ services on Marginal Field Development Company’s offshore oil and gas projects. MFDevCo, as the company is also known, on Tuesday said the addition of dutyholder capability is imperative in the final phases of project due dilige
Reservoir Link has received a conditional letter of award (LOA) from Petronas, for the provision of annulus wash and cementing assurance (AWCA) services. The scope of work includes circulation tunnel creation, wash technology and multi-annulus cement placement for approximately 74 wells offshore Mal
Reimerswaal Dredging said in their latest announcement that the new multi-purpose 5.450m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) DC Orisant is almost ready for the launch. The vessel is being built by Royal IHC for joint venture consisting of Den Herder (Reimerswaal Dredging) and Group de Cloedt. Ac
Two foundations of 10,000 tonnes and 8,000 tonnes, destined for the Danish offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak, have left the port of Ostend in Belgium. According to Jan de Nul, the foundations are planned to arrive in Denmark on January 15, 2018, where, depending on the weather conditions, the first f
