Intellian Technologies, a provider of maritime satellite communications systems, has received an order for satellite antenna systems from the Vietnamese owner and operator of vessels serving the oil and gas industry, PTSC Marine. Intellian said on Tuesday that the contract entails the installation o
C-Tecnics, a subsea camera and lighting company, has added Scott Jamieson to its business development team. Jamieson has over 30 years in the subsea industry working as a senior manager for equipment manufacturers around the world. C-Tecnics are said to be looking to the future and investing in pers
Rentel NV has reached financial close for the construction of a new offshore wind farm off the Belgian coast. The Rentel project, located 40 kilometers north of Ostend, will be the fifth offshore wind project in the Belgian North Sea. This new offshore power station will consist of 42 turbines and a
After 18 months, the ¡VAMOS! Consortium has reached the ‘design freeze’ stage of the prototypes to be built. ¡VAMOS!, the Viable Alternative Mining Operating System, is a 42-month research and development project launched to enable the opening and rehabilitation of underexploited European mineral de
Trendsetter Engineering and Add Energy have combined their expertise in well control engineering and equipment design to develop the relief well injection spool (RWIS). The RWIS is designed to enable pumping of up to 200 barrels per minute of kill mud through a single relief well utilizing multiple
Airborne Oil & Gas has started a project to qualify thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) for a deepwater jumper spool application for French operator Total. The Airborne Oil & Gas’ TCP that will be qualified on this project targets deep water applications. “The possibility with TCP to handle large def
Norwegian multi-client seismic data specialist Spectrum has entered into an agreement with the administrator of the Dolphin estate to acquire the 2D survey in Brazil Santos Campos and the 3D survey in Lebanon. Financial details surrounding the deal have not been disclosed. Spectrum’s purchase follow
US-based automation specialist Emerson has agreed to acquire the UK-based Permasense Limited, a provider of non-intrusive corrosion monitoring technologies for the offshore and onshore oil production industry. Permasense is Imperial Innovations Group’s portfolio company for which Emerson paid an ini
ALE Heavy Lift, a UK-based heavy-lift and transportation specialist, has performed its inaugural lifts on the P-74 FPSO project in Brazil with what the company says is the world’s largest capacity land-based crane, the AL.SK350. To remind, the crane was load-tested in preparation for its first lifts
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (September 26 – October 02). Technip Offshore Finland is reportedly sending home its entire workforce employed at construction yard in Pori. According to Finish media, layoffs for 288 yard workers shou
Royal IHC has appointed Arie Vergunst as the company’s new chief financial officer. Vergunst will start at his new position as of October 1, 2016. He succeeds Dave Vander Heyde, who became CEO on September 1, 2016. Vergunst has worked at IHC since June 2007 in several financial positions, both at ho
Global Marine Systems has extended its capabilities with the installation of a power cable carousel to store and manage power cables at its Portland Port depot on the south coast of England. The company said one OFTO (Offshore Transmission Owner) client is already utilising the facility’s new capabi
Allspeeds, the designers and manufacturers of Webtool, has released an ROV cut loop cutter for emergency activation of a blow out preventer (BOP). It is used to sever the cutting loop to activate the BOP in the event other measures have failed. Subsea intervention involves the use of remotely operat
For the past two years a conglomerate of trade associations, industry, government and academia have been collaborating on the world’s first operational 3D printed excavator. That project made a giant leap forward with the recent printing of a prototype that leveraged large-scale additive manufacturi
