ACE Winches, a deck machinery specialists and equipment provider for subsea industry, welcomed Peter Chapman, MSP and 10 local councillors to its global headquarters in Turriff, Aberdeenshire Ahead of the local elections next month, the company opened its doors to local councillors and had the oppor
Statoil has selected a consortium led by GE Water & Process Technologies and Halvorsen TEC to supply a complete seawater sulfate removal unit (SRU) for production wells in Statoil’s Johan Castberg project in the Barents Sea. The Johan Castberg project is situated about 100 kilometers north of the Sn
Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (SMD) today signed a contract with Van Oord for the manufacture and delivery of a QTrencher 1600. Scheduled for delivery in Q1 2018, the high power trenching machine will be supplied with an SMD designed umbilical winch, along with jetting and mechanical cutting tools to ta
Baker Hughes has recognized net loss for the quarter ended March 31, 2017 mainly on restructuring charges, asset impairments, and its GE merger-related costs. However, the oilfield services company has improved year-over-year as well as sequentially. Namely, for the first quarter of 2017, Baker Hugh
Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) Rosmorport has just announced that the Arkhangelsk Port dredging program is officially underway. During this dredging scheme, undertaken with the Damen built Ice class trailing suction hopper dredger Severnaya Dvina, around 1.7 million cubic meters of material
Engineering teams from UK-based subsea connector specialists Hydratight and Norwegian technologists Connector Subsea Solutions (CSS) have completed a deepwater pipeline repair in Western Australia. The team designed, manufactured and installed a diverless structural deepwater pipeline repair clamp f
CWind, a part of the Global Marine Group, has completed a power cable repair, reconnecting the Isles of Scilly to the mainland electricity. The C.S. Sovereign, the company’s specialist cable installation vessel, was used for the repair of the cable damaged late February by an anchor. Using remotely
DeepOcean has been awarded a contract for the provision of post-lay trenching and backfilling works on 56 kilometers of power cable offshore United Arab Emirates (UAE). The contract follows two completed projects offshore UAE in 2016 and early 2017. The post-lay trenching and backfilling works are p
Oilfield services titan Halliburton reported a rise in its first quarter 2017 revenue, when compared to the first quarter of 2016. Net loss also narrowed significantly. The company’s net loss was $32 million for the quarter, on a $4,28 billion in revenue. This time last year, Halliburton’s net loss
JFD, a James Fisher and Sons company, has been awarded a four-year framework contract, worth up to £10 million, by the UK MOD Salvage & Marine Operations Team for the provision of subsea equipment and support. The Salvage and Marine Operations (S&MO) Team owns and operates subsea equipment to fulfil
Oslo-listed Polarcus said it has delivered the vessel ‘Polarcus Amani’ to SCF GEO (Sovcomflot) following the charter agreement announced in February this year. The fixed period of the charter will be 5 1/2 years with options to extend for up to four additional months. The vessel was delivered withou
Keith Grammar School has come out on top in an annual competition which sees pupils from across Scotland put underwater robots they have designed and built to the test. The Scottish leg of the MATE ROV competition, co-ordinated and hosted by Robert Gordon University (RGU), saw eight schools put thei
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (April 17 – April 23). TechnipFMC and DOF Subsea joint venture has taken delivery of a newbuild pipelay support vessel (PLSV) the Skandi Búzios. The PLSV started its 8-year charter contract with Petrob
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (April 17-23, 2017). New Contracts for DEME in Germany, France, UK and Spain DEME’s German subsidiary Nordsee Nassbagger- und Tiefbau GmbH, based in Bremen, has acquired the maintenance dredging contract on the Ri
