C-Kore Systems has been awarded another contract by PTTEP Australasia to supply them with four C-Kore subsea monitoring tools for an offshore operation in Australian waters. PTTEP has used the C-Kore devices on multiple deployments. The C-Kore units confirm the health or find faults in all electrica
Van Oord has signed a contract with Norther for the Balance of Plant works for the Norther offshore wind farm, located 23 km off the Zeebrugge coast in Belgium. With a maximal capacity of 370 MW, Norther is set to become Belgium’s largest offshore wind project. After completion it will deliver renew
VBMS has been awarded a contract by nkt cables for the installation of approximately 50 km of 150 kV AC high voltage submarine cables for the Kriegers Flak Combined Grid Solution (Kriegers Flak CGS). The project, owned by Energinet.dk and 50Hertz, will connect the future Danish offshore wind farm Kr
Seatronics, an Acteon company, has been selected by Bibby Offshore as its preferred supplier of subsea rental equipment. The agreement is structured on the provision of marine electronic equipment to Bibby Offshore including ROV, NDT and survey equipment from Seatronics’ rental pool. Bibby Offshore
Las Palmas-based QSTAR has established a subsidiary in Barcelona Port Forum from where the company will promote marine services and training in the national market and to other places of influence in Europe and Mediterranean. These new facilities have an ROV pilot training center, being the second t
Rocsole, a Finnish company which specialises in real-time tomography, has successfully completed an additional funding round which was led by Shell Technology Ventures (STV). The Finnish company, with offices in Kuopio, Finland and Houston, Texas, provides electrical and ultrasound tomographic indus
Italdraghe SpA has successfully completed delivery of a SGT 400 Cutter Suction Dredger to the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources. The CSD comes as the first in a series of three dredgers that Italdraghe will supply to this client. According to the company, the dredger that is fully operational now in
Lloyd’s Register (LR), a global engineering, technical and business services organization, has acquired Seasafe Marine Software & Computation in order to improve the company’s ship emergency response service. Seasafe specializes in onboard loading and stability software to help operators manage the
Van Oord’s E169 fall-pipe subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel ‘Bravenes’ was launched at Sinopacific’s Zhejiang Shipyard in China. In September 2014, Sinopacific Shipbuilding and Van Oord announced the construction contract of the SRI vessel, expected to be delivered in 2016. The ‘Bravenes’ is des
DONG Energy Wind Power has contracted Nexans to supply and terminate a total of 139 km of three-phase subsea cable for the first of three construction phases of the Hornsea Project One wind farm, located off the Yorkshire coast. The 34 kV cables of latest generation will be used for inter-linking a
Excelerate Energy has completed the required geotechnical and geophysical studies for the implementation of the Moheshkhali Floating LNG terminal. Moheshkhali Floating LNG is a joint effort between Excelerate and the International Finance Corporation (IFC, and a member of the World Bank Group) under
Norwegian manufacturer of subsea equipment Agility Subsea Fabrication will reportedly reduce its workforce by around 100 employees and temporarily move production to its yard in Tonsberg. In addition to Tonsberg, the company is situated on Rora in Skien, Norway. It is said that it currently has abou
Mooreast will supply 9 units of 20-ton Mooreast MA5P anchor for a floating wind turbine demonstration project operating in the sea of Kitakyushu next year. This project is initiated by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). Glocal Inc., a Japanese company, who
JFD has recently accepted the delivery of a portable 18-man hyperbaric rescue facility (HRF) to expand its offer to offshore operators in the UK. JFD’s National Hyperbaric Centre (NHC) houses the only land-based saturation diving complex in the UK, and the addition of the portable HRF means JFD can
