Norwegian provider of marine seismic technology for the oil and gas industry, inApril, signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Kazakhstan’s Geo Energy Group (GEG) for its first seabed seismic system. inApril said on Thursday that the LOI is for an agreement potentially worth $25-30 million for the supp
Nextgen Group has entered into a conditional agreement with Vocus Communications for the sale of the company’s network businesses, including the North West Cable system and the planned Australia Singapore Cable. The deal includes Nextgen’s 17,000km national fibre network, the almost‐completed subsea
Rod Starr (photo) was named the CEO of Polarcus, a marine geophysical company, in February 2015, at the time when the oil price was slightly over $50 a barrel, down from over a $100 in mid-2014, after having spent years at TGS-NOPEC (TGS), another Oslo-listed seismic company. We caught him on the ph
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won an order to supply MacGregor offshore cranes and a Triplex handling system for a 14,300gt polar research vessel being built for the Polar Research Institute of China. “Our ability to deliver tailor-made packages of equipment and a reputation for successful low te
Vroon has christened its subsea support vessel (SSV) VOS Star, in a ceremony held in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, The vessel was named by Lianne Maandag, wife of Evert Maandag, Vroon Head QHSE. The 68 meters long VOS Star is one of the two newbuilding SSVs to have been constructed at Fujian Southeast
Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Siem Offshore, has been awarded a contract for the turnkey supply and installation package of the inner-array grid cable system for the Beatrice offshore wind farm (OWF) by SHL Offshore Contractors. SOC will be utilising vessels and resou
2016 MATE international ROV competition winners are Eastern Edge Robotics of Memorial University of Newfoundland – Explorer Class, and Ozaukee High School-Ozaukee Robotics in Ranger Class. The 15th annual competition took place June 23-25 at the NASA Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL)
The international oil & gas advisory and classification society, DNV GL, has opened a new training center at its large-scale testing and research facility at Spadeadam in Cumbria, UK. DNV GL said on Wednesday that the newly-opened center is a product of a $4 million investment with the goal to offer
A joint industry project, run by DNV GL, has replicated stresses measured in an umbilical subjected to tension and bending in full-scale tests, further validating the accuracy of the analysis software Helica. According to DNV GL, Helica, which calculates stresses in umbilical and flexible pipe compo
Subsea Innovation has secured an order from Subsea 7’s i-Tech Services to provide 5 ROV installed structural pipeline repair clamps for an emergency pipeline repair systems (EPRS) supporting pipelines off the North and Northwest coasts of Australia. The 5 systems cover pipes across a range of diamet
Tekmar Energy and Covestro have signed a cooperation agreement on subsea cable protection for the China offshore wind farm (OWF) market. Reportedly, this market is set to grow towards 10 gigawatts of capacity within the next three to five years. Cable protection systems cover solutions from bend sti
Following its launch at the bauma 2016, a new Liebherr PR 726 Litronic bulldozer with 6-way blade and newly-developed undercarriage will be put to the test at this year’s Hillhead 2016 show. Powered by a Stage IV/ Tier 4f emissions standards compliant 4-cylinder Liebherr diesel engine, this 6th gene
Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) has completed installation of four subsea drilled rock anchors at its berth at the European Marine Energy Centre. The anchors will be used to moor its PLAT-O tidal energy platform which will be deployed at EMEC. The anchoring remotely operated vehicle (AROV), which wa
Trelleborg’s applied technologies operation in Rochdale, England, has signed a framework agreement with i-Tech Services, a Subsea 7 company, to deliver buoyancy products for remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). This is the first formal framework agreement for the supply of ROV buoyancy, which covers t
