Wilson Sons Ultratug Offshore could have up to eight platform supply contracts with Petrobras temporarily suspended. The company is is a joint venture between the Brazilian shipbuilding company, Wilson Sons and Chilean services provider Ultramar. According to Wilson Sons, the JV is negotiating new c
Aquamarine Subsea Solutions has been awarded a contract to upgrade Diamond Offshore’s 18-¾” 15M subsea stack for the Ocean Valiant semi-submersible, currently operating in the North Sea. Aquamarine will supply engineering design, fabrication, and assembly and test to upgrade the stack to accommodate
Albwardy Damen is set to deliver the new fast crew supplier Damen FCS 4008, named AMPI, to Dubai-based Marine Core & Charter LLC. The AMPI is the first of two identical vessels for the same client, who is an integrated offshore support and marine services company that manages and operates a wide ran
CGG has completed a 11,500 sq km wide-azimuth (WAZ) survey on behalf of Pemex in the deepwater Perdido area. This new survey has been acquired perpendicularly to existing WAZ data and the combined imaging of this first large-scale orthogonal WAZ data set is expected to provide significantly enhanced
Irish oil and gas explorer Providence has plugged and abandoned the 53/6-1 (Druid & Drombeg) well offshore Ireland. To remind, Providence in mid-September said it had failed to find hydrocarbons at the prospect, hitting a porous water-bearing reservoir interval. The well is located in Frontier Explo
Xtera has been awarded a contract by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), to build a new regional submarine cable system. Xtera will deploy a full turnkey subsea system, including undersea optical repeaters, Nu-Wave Optima submarine line t
JFD has confirmed that its new COBRA (Compact Bailout Rebreathing Apparatus) system has passed further trials rating it safe for use at depths up to 450 metre sea water (msw). Released earlier this year, COBRA is a new bailout solution designed to replace conventional SCUBA bailout methods, providin
MHWirth, the largest subsidiary of Akastor, has taken stake and established a market and technology partnership with the Norwegian technology company Electrical Subsea & Drilling. Electrical Subsea & Drilling (ESD) is working on the development and qualification of two drilling technologies; all ele
Hilli Episeyo, soon to be operational as Cameroon’s first FLNG unit, has become a part of the first commercial Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) bunker transfer in Singapore. Namel, FueLNG, a joint venture between Keppel and Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd (Shell), has achieved the milestone by completi
VBMS a subsidiary of Boskalis has signed a ‘Preferred Supplier and Early Works Agreement’ for the supply and installation of the export and inter-array cables for the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm (OWF), UK. The project will be executed in consortium with NKT Cables. The likely contract value for
Plexus Holdings has been awarded a contract with Centrica to supply its POS-GRIP “HG” 10,000 psi adjustable production wellhead for a gas production well in the UK Southern North Sea. The contract represents the first order awarded by Centrica for a production well, Plexus noted. Under the terms of
Case study examples of OMC International’s DUKC® technology are being taught for the first time at the University of Melbourne, OMC said in its latest release. University of Melbourne’s Ocean Engineering Professor, Alexander Babanin, said that DUKC® content is being taught as part of an intensive we
Offshore classification organization ABS has approved the design and certified the GMS cantilever system for its self-elevating support vessel (SESV) GMS Evolution delivered in May 2017. As an industry first, ABS says, GMS Evolution is fitted with a small removable skidding cantilever system, instal
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (September 18-24, 2017). Royal IHC Launches NMDC’s First Custom-Built TSHD The launch ceremony of ARZANA – a 6,000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) – took place on September 20, at Royal IHC’s shipyard in
