ECA Group has delivered a 1000-meter depth rated H800 ROV system as a main tool for the maintenance of the underwater structures belonging to the Pacific Beachcomber SC company in French Polynesia. The Beachcomber group owns two hotels in the Tahiti surroundings, one in Bora-Bora atoll and the Brand
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (July 17–23, 2017). Boskalis Bags EUR60 Million Norvik Deal Boskalis has been awarded a contract by Ports of Stockholm to construct the quay wall for the new Stockholm Norvik Port in Sweden. Van Oord Wins Dubai
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (July 17 – July 23). JDR Cable Systems is to be acquired by the Polish manufacturer of cables and wires TELE-FONIKA Kable (TFKable). JDR’s subsea systems, used in the global offshore oil, gas and renew
Heavily indebted offshore dilling company Ocean Rig, is set to convene meetings with creditors hoping they’d approve the previously announced schemes to restructure the driller’s debt. According to the driller, the Grand Court of the Cayman has directed that four separate meetings be convened with c
Oilfield services major Schlumberger has posted second-quarter 2017 loss of $74 million, or 5 cents per diluted share, versus loss of $2.16 billion, or $1.56 per diluted share same time last year. Sequentially, the profit was at $488 million against $347 million, excluding charges and credits, howev
ION Geophysical has received a written notice from the New York Stock Exchange that it is not in compliance with the continued listing standards. The company is considered below criteria established by the NYSE for continued listing because its average market capitalization has been less than $50 mi
The International Association of Dredging Companies’ (IADC) seminar on dredging and land reclamation took place last month in Delft, the Netherlands. A group of 23 participants originating from 17 different countries attended the 55th seminar, hosted by IADC since 1993. Each year in June, the semina
The final sea trials of the SeaWorker autonomous vessels have taken place in the Solent before mobilisation to Ocean Infinity’s mothership, the Seabed Constructor. Ocean Infinity will use the ASVs for positioning and monitoring of the HUGIN 6000 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) as part of wide
Gap Explosive Ordnance Detection (EOD) has invented the technology for Dutch dredging giant Boskalis to find the unexploded munitions from WWII in the Borssele Wind Farm Zone in the North Sea. The project is part of a multi-million dollar deal between Fugro and Boskalis for the Dutch transmissions s
Modulus Technology, based in Great Yarmouth, UK and part of the AAE Technologies Group, has recently introduced its new, submersible GPS receiver with integrated L1 + L2 antenna to the marine survey market. The so-called MiniPod 101G provides streamer head and tail positioning, source positioning fo
A Damen trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) 650 has successfully completed sea trials in Shanghai and is now on its way to the new owner – Gippsland Ports in Australia. The TSHD, named Tommy Norton, is the first Damen dredger built for Australia. Having left Shanghai on 14th July, a Damen team is
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has signed an order for on-vessel equipment, product fabrication, engineering and project management for a complete mooring and riser system that will serve Moheshkhali floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal. The delivery will be completed in the second quarter 20
Sparrows Group and SPIE Oil & Gas Services have secured their first joint delivery project, which is in West Africa, after Total awarded the partners a crane maintenance contract on the Moho Nord offshore development. Total started production from the Moho Nord deep offshore project, located 75 kilo
Subsea engineering analysis consultancy, AgileTek, has completed the first use of its AELCloud system on a project for Fugro. The work required simulations of subsea power cable installation operations to be performed to verify procedures, component sizes and weather windows. Some of the results wer
