Technip’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Technip Umbilicals, has repotedly entered into a period of collective consultation with its workforce over proposed redundancies for its Newcastle-based manufacturing facility. The company, which employs some 500 workers at its Tyneside site, is said to be planning
Ofgem has proposed lower levels for the range in revenues that the developers of the North Sea Link (NSL) can earn, which should benefit the consumers of this electricity interconnector between UK and Norway. The NSL project is one of seven new interconnectors that have been proposed to link GB with
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won deck machinery orders for six 64m anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels being built for long-term charter in the Middle East to Saudi Aramco. The order is booked in Cargotec’s 2016 third quarter order intake. MacGregor was awarded the contract by PaxOcean Eng
Seatools has completed the upgrade of a HighWire survey grade taut wire system, to be deployed by Boskalis to determine the position of a subsea cable plough during an installation project. Initially delivered in 2001, the HighWire system served Boskalis during the installation of submerged sewage o
Sonardyne International has appointed Scandinavian Aerospace and Industry AB (SAI) as a reseller of its maritime security products in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and surrounding territories. Under the terms of the agreement, SAI will promote Sonardyne’s family of underwater security products: Sentinel
Oil prices rose early on Tuesday as some analysts said markets might not be quite as oversupplied as suggested by many, with global inventories rising less than expected ahead of the high-demand winter heating season in the northern hemisphere.
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks’ (part of Nokia) specialised subsea cable ship ‘Ile de Re’ has arrived in Auckland, en route to the middle of the Tasman Sea where it will continue laying the final section of the Tasman Global Access (TGA) subsea cable. Telecommunications companies Spark, Vodafone
A new yellow robot submarine, based at Southampton’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC), has been named Boaty McBoatface by Jo Johnson – Minister of State for universities, science, research and innovation. The naming took place alongside the keel-laying ceremony of the UK’s new polar research ship,
More than three billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) remain in approximately 350 unsanctioned discoveries across the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), according to information released by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA). Of the three billion, the majority are ‘small pools’, defined as less than 50 mil
Trelleborg’s engineered products operation has completed the supply of floatover equipment for Petronas’ NC3 gas field, offshore Malaysia. The NC3 field is located in Block SK316, 200 kilometers North of Bintulu, a Malaysian coastal town on the island of Borneo. Trelleborg said on Monday that the co
InterMoor, an Acteon company, has been awarded a single point mooring (SPM) installation from PT Pertamina in Indonesia. The work is part of a contract for engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning of subsea pipe line (SPL) and single point mooring (SPM) awarded to a con
Polarcus has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate with TGS to jointly develop selected 3D multi-client projects. New projects taken under the collaboration agreement will be announced separately as they occur, Polarcus said in Oslo Exchange filing on Monday. Further, under
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Corps Connection has just released a video about the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project, named ‘On the Road Again: LTG Semonite at SHEP’. In the video, Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, USACE Commanding General and 54th U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, reports from the Savannah
Two local contractors in Delta State, Nigeria, recently took delivery of 10-inch Wolverine Class Dredges, designed and manufactured by DSC Dredge at its Greenbush, Michigan, facility. As the political capital of Delta State, Asaba is a rapidly expanding city along the banks of the Niger River Delta.
