In just four months, MAN Diesel & Turbo has won contracts for four Chinese dredger newbuildings. Chinese outfits CHECD, Jiangsu Haixin and Huanghua Port Bureau recently chose MAN medium-speed engines for the new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). CHECD CHECD (CHEC Dredging Company Ltd.) – a sub
Sparrows Group and INNOVO have deployed its new electric drive 700 Te multi-reel drive system for the first time. Sparrows was hired by a global energy services provider to deliver the system and personnel for an umbilical laying operation off the coast of Trinidad. The work saw the collaborative te
U.S.-based Rubicon Oilfield International has acquired the assets, people and operating business of World Oil Tools, a manufacturer and supplier of specialty inflatable products and technology consumed in downhole completions operations. In a Monday statement announcing the acquisition, Rubicon did
The NKT Victoria cable-laying vessel has laid the first HVDC cables in the Moray Firth as part of Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks’ Caithness-Moray transmission project. The vessel completed its first campaign from Noss Head in Caithness to the midpoint of the cable route this week. It has
Heinen & Hopman announced recently that it will supply the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) for a new, custom-built Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD), to be built by Royal IHC for the Administración Nacional de Puertos in Montevideo, Uruguay. The basic design and detailed engine
IKM Subsea has begun onshore-controlled remote operated vehicle (ROV) operations from the company’s headquarters in Bryne, Norway. IKM began what it described on Wednesday as “the world’s first commercial onshore controlled ROV operations” on Monday, June 12. The company added that up to three work-
Sparrows Group, a specialist equipment and integrated engineering services provider, and an engineering and manufacturing firm INNOVO have deployed INNOVO’s new electric drive 700 Te multi-reel drive system for the first time. Sparrows was hired by a global energy services provider to deliver the sy
Underwater robotics company Aquabotix has introduced ‘Live Remote Viewing’, a new product feature that enables real-time underwater viewing and connectivity between Aquabotix’s products and remote customers via the cloud. Live Remote Viewing, designed specifically for Aquabotix’s Endura remotely ope
The oil and gas industry has said it may be one step closer to transforming well plug and abandonment (P&A) as 45 potential solutions were submitted for its first ‘Call for Ideas’. The OGTC received ideas and concepts that could have a material impact on this transformation, against three specific t
Seismic player Shearwater GeoServices has signed a contract to join the Full Wave research consortium as a late participant. Shearwater GeoServices said on Wednesday that the 3D anisotropic FWI code would be incorporated into the company’s OpenCPS seismic processing software for use in advanced mode
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has increased its investment in technology developed by Sonardyne International, UK. The Ranger 2 Gyro-iUSBL system which combines acoustic positioning and inertial navigation technologies is the second system now owned by EMGS. It will be fitted to one of their to
IKM has started a commercial onshore controlled ROV operations at its headquarters in Bryne Norway. In the near future up to three work class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and one observation ROV on Statoil’s Snorre B and Visund installations will be controlled from IKM Subsea’s onshore control
DHI, an independent research and consultancy organization operating worldwide, presented their Port Expansion Solution (PEX) at the 30th IAPH World Ports Conference in Bali last month. The presentation was delivered by Dr. Mamta Jain and attracted solid attention for the duration of the conference,
McDermott has recently celebrated a milestone with the load-out and installation of the first jacket fully fabricated by the company at its recently-opened Dammam fabrication yard in Saudi Arabia. The Safaniya 264 jacket is part of McDermott’s long term agreement II (LTA II) scope of work with Saudi
