ABB has won an order worth around $30 million from Svenska Kraftnät in Sweden and Energinet in Denmark. ABB will upgrade the control and protection system for the Konti-Skan high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission link with its latest ABB Ability MACH technology. The Konti-Skan transmission
Danish oil company Maersk Oil has installed the second Culzean jacket in the UK sector of the North Sea. The Maersk Oil-operated Culzean development concept consists of a wellhead platform, a central processing facility platform, and separate utilities and living quarter platform. The first jacket,
Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) in consortium with AF Offshore Decom (AFOD), named HAF Consortium, has completed the removal of the Murchison platform. The HAF Consortium secured the contract for the engineering, preparation, removal, and disposal (EPRD) of the Murchison platform, comprising of a 2
Faasse Groep, a Goes based dredging contractor, has just introduced their new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Scald. The new vessel, converted into TSHD by Kooiman B.V. in Zwijndrecht, was delivered to her new owners earlier this month. During this conversion, various preparations were undert
Norwegian oil services company Aker Solutions has reported net income of NOK 33 million ($4 million), or NOK 0.08 in the second-quarter 2017, versus net income of NOK 131 million ($15.8 million), or NOK 0.37 in the prior-year comparable period. The company has seen its revenue decline to NOK 5.4 bil
Deep Blue Cable have contracted TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity company, to build and deploy the Deep Blue subsea cable system. The pan-Caribbean system design spans nearly 12,000 km with initial landing points in 12 markets throughout the region, including the Cayman Islands, Curaçao, the Dominican Re
BAM has floated out the first of the five concrete gravity base foundations being constructed for EDF Blyth wind farm project off the Northumberland coast, UK. The gravity base left the dry dock in Newcastle and was floated down the River Tyne to Port of Tyne. The base will have additional ballast a
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions was asked to create a seal that would work inside a pioneering new product which was developed by Subsea Technologies Ltd (STL). STL’s two inch hydraulically retractable subsea coupler assists in creating its XR Connector’s high-angle release capability, which has no max
EdgeTech, the underwater technology specialist, has recently provided a 6205 MPES system to the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center (CCOM/JHC). The EdgeTech 6205 multi phase echo sounder (MPES) produces 3D maps of the seafloor while providing
Seaborn Networks, developer-owner-operator of submarine cable systems, has completed the final splice for Seabras-1. Seabras-1 is the only direct POP to POP submarine cable system between São Paulo (Brazil) and New York (US). “This is a tremendous achievement for both Seaborn and Seabras-1,” said La
Offshore services company Bourbon has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Automated Ships Ltd (ASL) to support the building of the world’s first autonomous, fully-automated, prototype vessel for offshore operations. The duo will develop the Hrönn project prototype in collaboration
Baker Hughes, as of recently GE company, announced today that worldwide offshore rig count for June 2017, fell to 221 active units, down from 244 in the same period a year ago. The international offshore rig count for June 2017 was 197, down 5 from the 202 counted in May 2017, and down 26 from the
DOF Subsea has carried out the first major offshore dive with JFD’s new deep diving rebreather, COBRA (Compact Bailout Rebreathing Apparatus). Earlier this year, JFD released COBRA into the market to replace conventional SCUBA bailout methods, providing divers with extended supply of breathing gas i
Bakker Sliedrecht has been awarded a contract for the engineering, delivery and commissioning of the electrical power plant and auxiliary electrical installations for the world’s most powerful cutter suction dredger (CSD) Spartacus. This giant dredging vessel, to be fueled by liquefied natural gas (
