Trelleborg and SubC Partner have joined forces to design, manufacture and test a distributed buoyancy module (DBM) for installation by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The DBM would be installed by an ROV on to a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units’ 12 inch production riser in
The Odebrecht, Tecnimont and Ingeniería Estrella consortium is currently building the Punta Catalina Power Plant in the Dominican Republic. Within this project, two breakwaters will be built to protect the cooling water intake structure from hurricane waves. These breakwaters will be protected by ar
Altus Intervention, a subsidiary of the Qinterra Group, has won a contract extension with Statoil for power mechanical services on a number of its North Sea and Norwegian Sea fields. The new two-year agreement will see Altus deliver its services across Heidrun, Statfjord, Snorre, Sleipner and Statoi
JFD has welcomed Graeme M Mackie as Diving Technical Authority at their National Hyperbaric Centre in Aberdeen. Mackie has over 28 years experience within the diving, ROV and construction industries, most recently as vessels operations manager for Ceona. He started his career as an air diver for Tec
Kongsberg Maritime’s Marine Robotics department has provided a three-week training of Hugin AUV systems set up on Indonesian Navy’s new survey ship program. The introduction training was conducted at a hotel in Central Jakarta, and the last week was at sea in Semangka Bay for practical training down
Global Marine Systems has been awarded the renewal of the Atlantic Cable Maintenance Agreement (ACMA), alongside its Atlantic partner for maintenance services, Orange Marine. The new contract began on January 1, 2017, and runs for five years, through to December 2021. ACMA is a non-profit cooperativ
Subsea Innovation has completed the design, manufacture and testing of two Hydraulic Power Units (HPU) for Saipem America. The HPUs will be installed on board the Saipem Castorone pipe laying vessel. Saipem Castorone is designed for installation of large-diameter pipelines in deep and ultra-deep wat
DeepOcean has been awarded cable installation and trenching work by Nexans for ScottishPower Renewable’s East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Offshore work will be undertaken by 2019 with the Maersk Connector and purpose built power cable plough, ACP2, supported by DeepOcean’s in-hou
Maritime Developments (MDL) has dispatched the new 4-track pipelay tensioner to Asia Pacific, after securing the first job for the system with an undisclosed offshore contractor. The portable 110-tonne unit will be used for an umbilical installation in the Indian Ocean, to transition 28km of product
Atlas Copco has agreed to acquire Erkat Spezialmaschinen und Service GmbH, a Germany based manufacturer of drum cutter attachments for excavators. “Drum cutters are an ideal complementary product for Atlas Copco as a solution provider in rock excavation, tunnel and foundation profiling and demolitio
Quintillion is deploying Ciena’s 8700 Packetwave Platform to support the first phase of its 15,000-kilometer intercontinental subsea fiber system that is planned to connect Europe and Asia by way of the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. Quintillion’s Phase1 network build in Alaska will connect Nome and P
ScottishPower Renewables has chosen Nexans to supply submarine cables for the 714 MW East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm. Nexans will supply and install two 85 km 3-core submarine cables with embedded fibre optics, as well as accompanying accessories, for the wind farm in the North Sea. The contract
Megaport, a provider of elastic interconnection services, intends to enter into a global platform & licensing agreement with Seaborn Networks, the developer-owner-operator of submarine fiber optic cable system Seabras-1. As a result of this strategic alliance, Seaborn will have an out-of-the-box sof
ACE Winches has advised its employees of potential headcount reductions at its UK facilities in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. The company is currently in consultation with its staff and said it is making every effort to mitigate any potential impact on its employees. As a result of this process it is anti
