The University of Bridgeport has obtained an 8-foot, 2,300-pound submarine for educational purposes. The submarine, called “Explorer,” is on loan to the school for an extended period of time to be used by engineering faculty and students for research and experimentation. Alan Winnick, a Westport-bas
DEME and Royal IHC have been awarded a DPC Innovation Award for the world’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers (TSHD). The DPC Innovation Awards consisted of 13 categories looking at the most innovative and forward-thinking projects that the dredging and port
AxFlow has extended its business in Norway with the acquisition of Process Partner, experts in process instrumentation, calibration and gas detection equipment for offshore and onshore industries. With 570 employees and sales of €175 million, AxFlow is the distributor of industrial fluid handling eq
Nautilus informed that factory acceptance testing (FAT) of the riser tooling and the subsea pull-in skids for its Solwara 1 mineral exploration project was successfully completed this week in Poland and the USA respectively. The riser tooling, which was designed by GMC in Houston, is a piece of equi
Sonardyne Asia has informed that its Ranger 2 underwater acoustic positioning technology has been selected for six new Chinese scientific research vessels. The new order, announced during the OI China exhibition and conference in Shanghai, follows last month’s news that the Polar Research Institute
Dutch provider of floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units to the offshore oil and gas industry, SBM Offshore, has been selected by EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDF EN) to provide floating wind systems solution for a pilot project offshore France. As a part of the French government’s turn
Technip has been awarded a contract by a ‘major operator’ to supply a subsea control umbilical in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract with an unnamed buyer was won by Technip’s wholly-owned subsidiary Technip Umbilicals Inc. It includes the project management and manufacture of several kilometers of a
Technip’s wholly-owned subsidiary Technip Umbilicals has been awarded a contract by an undisclosed operator to supply a subsea control umbilical in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract includes the project management and manufacture of several kilometers of a static and dynamic unarmoured steel tube umb
Aker BP has awarded a frame agreement to IKM Cleandrill, a specialist mud recovery subsidiary of the IKM Group, for the provision of a mud recovery services during drilling on the Alvheim development in the North Sea. IKM said that the deal is a three-year frame agreement for riserless closed loop m
Geology Without Limits (GWL) explored the Barents Sea’s Norwegian shelf segment employing its new FloatSeis marine seismic technology. GWL markets FloatSeis as marine seismic technology that amends CDP reflection method with refracted waves data. Using custom seismic equipment in addition to both 2D
Steatite has completed the first phase of a 24-month project to develop a pressure-tolerant lithium sulphur (Li-S) battery pack that can improve the endurance and speed of ‘deep-dive autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). According to the company, after the demonstration that Li-S cells can operate
James Fisher Subsea has completed a four-month inspection campaign on six North Sea oil rig platforms for Shell UK using asset-based remotely operated vehicles (ABROVs). The company said that, traditionally, oil rig inspections are done using a dedicated remotely operated vehicle support vessel (ROV
UK-listed oil and gas player Tullow informed on Wednesday that Jubilee field FPSO turret remediation project is progressing as planned. The interim spread-mooring of the vessel on its current heading is on track to be completed by the end of 2016. To remind, in April this year, Tullow notified that
Eddy Pump Corporation – a dredge equipment and pump manufacturer from El Cajon, California – has started shipping the company’s newly released cutterhead design. The Excavator Dredge Pump Attachment has been outfitted with a new direct drive design and improved cutterhead. This results in a clean de
