Van den Herik’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Charlock last month underwent a program of maintenance and repairs at Niestern Sander Ship Repair in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The TSHD arrived at the Niestern Sander shipyard’s floating docks on November 26th. “Moored between the two docks, th
Aker Solutions has won work to support Statoil in development of the Johan Castberg field, the largest oil discovery in the Norwegian Barents Sea. The company will supply subsea production system and design the topside of the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility, which will be
Statoil has submitted the PDO (plan for development and operation) for the Johan Castberg project on behalf of the partnership with Eni and Petoro. Several major contracts will also be awarded to Norwegian industry. “This is a great day! We have finally succeeded in realising the Johan Castberg deve
Sparkle, the international service provider of TIM Group, has activated three fiber pairs it owns and manages on the new Seabras-1 cable, connecting Sao Paulo, Brazil, to New York, USA. Sparkle’s capacity on Seabras-1 supports the fast growing demand for advanced connectivity between North and South
Norwegian seabed seismic services player Magseis has appointed Per Christian Grytnes as the company’s acting CEO. He replaces Idar Horstad who has resigned as CEO of Magseis for personal reasons. “The Board would like to thank Mr. Horstad for the work he has done for Magseis over the past year and w
Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University (RGU) has launched a world-first decommissioning simulator to service the growing sector.
With the ongoing investment in the exploration of natural resources and the harnessing of energy from wind and tidal power, there is an increasing focus on the environmental impacts these can have on the marine habitat, RPS Group – Oxfordshire based consultancy company said in their latest announcem
International seabed sampling specialists Ocean Scientific International Ltd have shipped a modified version of the industry standard Multiple Corer to Australia for use in a project in a remote location of Papua New Guinea. The corer has been converted into a modular design to allow it to be transp
Quintillion has launched its subsea fiber optic cable system in five northern Alaska communities, following the completion of testing. The Quintillion subsea cable system is now available to service providers in Utqiaġvik, Wainwright, Point Hope, Nome and Kotzebue. Quintillion’s cable system will de
JFD said it has delivered the first two lifeboats which form part of the company’s new safety-advanced range of self-propelled hyperbaric lifeboats (SPHLs). In February 2016, JFD won a multi-million-pound contract to design and manufacture six SPHLs; four 18-man and two 24-man, as part of the satura
The naming ceremony of ISA Towage BV’s new Damen Shoalbuster 3209 ‘ISA’ took place on Friday, 17 November, at Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld (DSHa). The godmother of the ISA was Mrs. Miranda Mastenbroek, wife of Willem-Harm Mastenbroek, owner and managing director of ISA Towage B.V. The Shoalbuster 320
Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University (RGU) has launched a decommissioning simulator to service the growing sector. RGU, in collaboration with funding partners The Oil and Gas Technology Centre, KCA Deutag and Drilling Systems, with technical support from Baker Hughes, a GE Company (BHGE), has establi
Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL) informed that Seaway Heavy Lifting’s Stanislav Yudin vessel has installed a final set of offshore foundation piles at the Beatrice offshore wind farm. The work has seen 86 sets of four piles installed at the wind farm site in the Outer Moray Firth. Following the
ION Geophysical is offering a 2D multi-client data package offshore Argentina in advance of the 2018 license round. ION has delivered a regional framework consisting of approximately 30,000 km of data over the Austral and Malvinas basins’ relatively under-explored petroleum region. For almost 10 yea
