NKT has signed a preferred bidder agreement (PBA) for delivery and installation of export cable for the Moray East offshore wind farm, developed by Moray East Offshore Windfarm Ltd (MOWEL), owned by EDP Renováveis and ENGIE. A PBA is a key step towards a final order which is conditional upon final n
Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary PPL Shipyard has settled a dispute with offshore services provider Marco Polo, over a 2015 canceled jack-up rig order. The contractual dispute between the two Singapore-based parties began in November 2015, when Marco Polo Drilling broke off a rig construction deal it ha
XPRIZE has announced updates to the first round of testing for the 19 semifinalist teams competing in the $7-million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. Before Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the deep sea off the southern coast of Puerto Rico was chosen as the original Round 1 Field Test location for the 19 se
Royal IHC has just released a photo from the keel laying ceremony of the new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) D11 21 De Julio. The 4.200m³ TSHD – ordered by the Administration Nacional de Puertos (ANP) – is being built in Uruguay and the Netherlands. The October 25th ceremony took place simult
French seismic contractor CGG has reported net loss of $124 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2017, against net loss of $88 million same time last year. For the third quarter 2017, the company generated $320 million in revenue and EBITDA of $90 million, against revenue of $264 million and
ITF and Norwegian Energy Partners will address operator late life and decommissioning challenges in jointly hosted technology hackathon events later this month.
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Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (November 6-12, 2017). Rosmorport Gets OK for Vostochny and Nakhodka Dredging Plans Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) Rosmorport has received positive findings from the State Ecology Expert Panel on design d
The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) is awarding £68 million to the latest ground-breaking research and innovation projects in robotics and artificial intelligence systems. The awards announced today are part of the government’s £93 million of funding for the robotics and artificial intelli
Tyneside-based subsea engineering specialist Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (SMD) is urging North East university students to apply to its Graduate scheme. The two-year training and development programme aims to cultivate young engineers in a variety of disciplines to work across SMD sites in North East
Seaways Heavy Lifting and Siem Offshore have, on behalf of Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL), started the installation of inter-array cables at the Beatrice offshore wind farm, off Caithness coast. The cable laying vessel (CLV) Siem Aimery will install up to 24 inter-array cables during the firs
A team of engineers from thyssenkrupp, Berlin Technical University, the University of Rostock, ATLAS ELEKTRONIK and EvoLogics is working together to develop a new type of unmanned underwater vehicle. The research and development project known as the Large Modifiable Underwater Mothership, or MUM, wi
Oil and gas and robotics specialists collaborated at the Oil & Gas Technology Centre’s Robotics Week from October 30 to November 2 to identify 15 potential projects that could accelerate the use of robotics offshore. More than 250 people took part in a series of workshops and tech talks at the Centr
Royal IHC has just announced that the new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Shanti Sagar 17 successfully completed sea trials. The new TSHD – built for Adani Group- was lunched at IHC’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, the Netherlands, on 31 March 2017. This is the first of two Beagle 8 TSHD
