The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) continues to make progress on the Center for River Studies and Mississippi River Physical Model in Baton Rouge. Model panel assembly is kicking off and the digital projection system is being calibrated, CPRA said in its latest announc
Oil and gas services firm Plexus Holdings has been awarded a two-year contract extension with Shell in Brunei. Plexus said on Thursday that the contract extension is for the provision of wellhead and mudline equipment and that it covers the supply of both high pressure / high temperature (HPHT) and
Control Products Inc. has introduced the ‘SL2000’ linear position sensor that is both deep sea submersible and ATEX and IEC-EX intrinsic safety rated. The sensor is designed for the hydraulic cylinders and accumulators such as those used in offshore oilfield mining and drilling operations or heavy d
Plexus Holdings, oil and gas engineering services business, has noted that its revenue for the current financial year, ending 30 June 2017, is currently running materially behind expectations. The company is said to be in negotiations for the conclusion of several new contracts which if they fall wi
Namaka Subsea, an Aberdeen based subsea consulting company, has secured a 5-year contract with an undisclosed UK North Sea operator to act as their diving technical authority. This scope of work outlines the requirement for Namaka Subsea to provide diving technical authority, dive assurance and dive
Engineering company Genesis has been awarded two frame agreement contracts by BP covering work in the Conceptual, Pre-FEED and FEED stages of the project lifecycle. These frame agreement contracts have global reach and ensure that Genesis will continue to engage early with BP to support them in thei
TCarta Marine has merged with Proteus Geo to create a global mapping company that provides bathymetric and marine data sets from the shallow coastal zone out to the continental shelf. The new company is called TCarta Marine and will maintain offices in Denver and Oxford. “By merging, we believe the
Flux Group’s subsidiary Active Service has been awarded a contract for the provision of 40 hydraulic umbilicals and hoses for a wellhead control system to the engineering and manufacturing company CRE8 Systems AS. The equipment will be installed at the Johan Sverdrup field. Flux Group has now secure
The Western Dredging Association (WEDA) has just released more details about its 2017 Dredging Summit and Expo, set to take place at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from June 26-29, 2017. The Dredging Summit and Expo is a technical conference and exposition organized to promot
In January of this year, Dutch subsea technology company Seatools completed an R&D program on a subsea liquid storage technology. During the program, a continuation of an earlier engineering study performed on behalf of Statoil, the storage technology successfully passed a full product qualification
A contract for assembling pioneering suction bucket foundations for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) has helped safeguard around 35 jobs and create up to another 105 positions in Newcastle upon Tyne after being awarded to Smulders Projects. The company will carry out the
Flux Group’s subsidiary Active Service has been awarded a contract for the provision of 40 hydraulic umbilicals and hoses for a wellhead control system which will be installed at the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea. Flux said on Monday that the umbilicals and hoses would be produced for the en
NEL, the flow measurement R&D specialist, has been selected to lead the development of a new multiphase flow measurement standard for the oil and gas industry. Despite the growing use of multiphase meters to cope with complex fluid mixtures from ageing fields which have depleting reserves, there is
Damen Shipyards Group has contracted Bakker Sliedrecht to deliver a flexible electrical propulsion system for an antarctic supply research vessel (ASRV). The vessel is being built for the Australian Government and will form an integral part of the Australian Antarctic Program program in the coming y
