Minesto has taken delivery of the wing, the first one built for a Deep Green system in commercial scale. The wing was delivered to Minesto’s team in Holyhead from Southampton, where it has been manufactured by Green Marine. Prior to the delivery, factory acceptance test was performed at Green Marine
JD-Contractor has been awarded the contract for the cabling of the 28MW Nissum Bredning project in Denmark, where Siemens Gamesa will test a variety of its new offshore wind solutions. On behalf of I/S Nissum Bredning Vind, Siemens Gamesa is constructing four wind turbines and related equipment in N
Early 2018 IKM Cleandrill will start its first offshore operations in the Caspian Sea, after being awarded a contract for riserless mud circulating system services by Total E&P ABSHERON BV on behalf of JOCAP, Joined Operating Company for Absheron Project, JV between SOCAR (50%) and TOTAL (50%). The
The Negombo Lagoon cleanup project in Sri Lanka was recently completed by using a multipurpose Watermaster amphibious dredging machine. The Negombo Lagoon suffers from heavy siltation and the presence of urban debris, making big trouble for the fishing and sightseeing boats to enter the certain part
Forum Energy Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the membership interests in Global Tubing from its joint venture partner Quantum Energy Partners. As part of the transaction, Forum will also acquire management’s interest in the joint venture and repay Global Tubing‘s net debt.
In their Summer 2017 Issue of the Company Magazine, Jay Cashman, Inc. said that the company’s hydraulic barge offloader Kraken has been refitted recently so it can now operate either as a barge offloader or as a booster barge. The American heavy-construction company based in Quincy, Massachusetts, s
A new European project named Kraken has started. The project received €350.000 through financing of OCEANERANET (Ocean Energy European Research Area Network) and gathers four partners of three different countries: WavEC Offshore Renewables and Instituto Super Técnico (Portugal), SIANI (Canary Island
Norwegian seismic player Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has appointed Rune Olav Pedersen as the new president & CEO of the company. He will succeed Jon Erik Reinhardsen on September 1, 2017. “The Board has run a thorough succession process since early spring, and assessed a number of very qualified No
Crown Estate Scotland now has spatial data relating to the organisation’s offshore assets freely available on its website for the first time. The data covers infrastructure projects and undersea cabling and can be used by a range of organisations from oil and gas companies to consultancies and educa
Subsea equipment specialist Ashtead Technology has boosted its Singapore operation with the appointment of Ankit Munjal as regional sales manager. Munjal will be responsible for the firm’s sales and business development activities in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region in support of both existing and new
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (August 21-27, 2017). Jan De Nul’s New Cutter Suction Dredger Launched Mrs. Julie De Nul has released the self-propelled cutter suction dredger Willem van Rubroeck in the sea at the Uljanik Shipyard in Croatia.
Royal IHC and Dutch Dredging have joined forces to upgrade the pump room on the trailing suction hopper dredger Amazone. Both companies worked together in close cooperation to design a drive train capable of reducing its loading time by more than 30%. “IHC is the only service provider capable of sup
Croatian shipbuilder Uljanik has just announced that the launching ceremony of one of the world’s largest cutter suction dredgers, Jan De Nul’s ‘Willem van Rubroeck’, will take place tomorrow, August 26. The new CSD will be approximately 50% more powerful than the J.F.J. De Nul, currently the larges
MacArtney has secured an order for LISST instruments from University of Bergen, Norway. LISST instruments are manufactured by Seattle based oceanographic instrument manufacturer, Sequoia Scientific, and used for environmental monitoring, industrial, and scientific application. The order placed by Un
