Singapore-based M3 Marine and Indonesia-based PT ROV Inspeksi have transformed their working collaboration into a new partnership. M3 believes this union should enhance collective capabilities in the offshore marine surveying and inspection arena. The new company, M3 Marine Remote Inspection, offers
REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), manufactured by Hydroid, a Kongsberg Maritime company, was used to gather sonar data by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s team in the historic discovery of the USS Indianapolis wreckage earlier this month. The ship was found 5,500 meters below the surf
Stockton-based Francis Brown has fabricated and installed a 700Te carousel which will be used for the storage of spare cables for UK offshore wind farm projects. Francis Brown was commissioned to fabricate and site install the carousel to the project base in Sunderland, by Ecosse Subsea on behalf of
The main shareholders of Robotic Drilling Systems AS (RDS) Odfjell Drilling, Statoil Technology Invest, Investinor and Westcon have entered into an agreement to sell 100 % of the RDS shares to Nabors Industries (Nabors). As part of the transaction, the largest shareholder in RDS prior to the transac
Royal IHC is putting final touches on the new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Arzana at their shipyard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. The TSHD Arzana, built for the Abu Dhabi based marine contractor National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC), will be the first custom-built trailing suction hopp
Baker Hughes, a GE company, has secured a second contract for Eni East Africa’s (EEA) Coral South FLNG development, offshore Mozambique. The contract was awarded in 2Q this year by a joint venture formed by TechnipFMC and JGC Corporation, the lead partner in a consortium that will provide engineerin
DeepOcean’s Maersk Connector has completed loading of the first phase on the Nemo Link cables in the port of Blyth. Two 59 km long 400kv HVDC XPLE cables were simultaneously spooled from a freighter onto the 7,000 te. split capacity duel concentric carousel. The vessel is now on its way to the UK co
Norwegian marine pumping systems specialist, Framo secured a contract to deliver its systems for a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) ordered by shipowner GasLog at Samsung Heavy Industries. Framo, an Alfa Laval company, expects to deliver the sea water lift pumps in August 2018. This o
Ccrow, an abbreviation of Central certificates registry for on- & offshore workers, is a Belgium start-up helping offshore contractors to save time when moving between projects. As its name says, the company has clients in both, on- and offshore industries, covering crew certificates for workers emp
Teledyne Seabotix has integrated its vLBV observation class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) with Kongsberg M3 sonar system. The M3 sonar is a 2D multibeam system which provides high-resolution images by combining the rapid refresh rate of conventional multibeam sonar with image quality comparable to
Ellicott Dredge Technologies (EDT) has announced the successful launch of a Mud Cat MFD at Griffin & Howe’s Echo Lake in the Catskills region of New York. John Wunderluch of Freshwater selected the Mud Cat MFD because of its ability to work as a hydraulic dredge with the MC-Cutter Pump and a mechani
Oil and gas services company TechnipFMC has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract from Husky Energy for the West White Rose Project in Eastern Canada. The contract covers the supply and installation of subsea equipment including tie-in manifolds, fle
CGG has started work on Espirito Santo IV, a large BroadSeis 3D multi-client survey in the deep and ultra-deep waters of the Espirito Santo Basin offshore Brazil. The Oceanic Champion is acquiring the survey which is expected to take seven months. This industry-supported survey will cover 10,300 squ
Faroe Petroleum has informed that drilling has started at the Goanna exploration well 33/9-22 S in license PL 881, offshore Norway. The Goanna license, operated by Wellesley Petroleum, is located in the northern part of the Norwegian North Sea, near the border with the UK and adjacent to the giant p
