C-Kore Systems has been awarded a contract to supply Statoil with subsea electrical monitoring tools. Statoil will be using the tools to monitor the insulation resistance and continuity of a new control umbilical during its installation at a field outside Bergen in the northern part of the North Sea
Seaway Heavy Lifting has awarded Bladt Industries an order for 30 jacket foundations for the Beatrice offshore wind farm. Fabrication of the jackets will take place at Bladt’ production facilities at Lindoe Industrial Park, Denmark. Bladt will provide 30 four-legged jacket foundations for the wind f
Oceaneering has elected William B. Berry to its board of directors. Berry served as executive vice president, Exploration and Production, of ConocoPhillips from 2003 until his retirement on January 1, 2008. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Continental Resources, Inc. and Frank’s Int
Teledyne PDS has released a newly enhanced version of Teledyne PDS LiteView freeware 3D viewer for hydrographic applications. LiteView can be used to quickly access Teledyne PDS data files, such as PDS logdata files, grid model files, 3D design model files and GeoTIFF files to view and easily naviga
MacGregor, a part of Cargotec, has launched a new fibre-rope retrofit option for its subsea cranes. MacGregor said on Thursday that the modular upgrade replaces the crane’s original steel wire rope with high-performance synthetic fibre rope, using the same technology as MacGregor’s fibre-rope crane,
Delmar Systems, a US offshore mooring, and subsea services company, has acquired privately owned InterOcean Systems, a San Diego-based manufacturer of oceanographic and environmental equipment. InterOcean, including its proprietary Rig Anchor Release (RAR), is a manufacturer and designer of acoustic
Liquid Robotics has expanded its Strategic Advisory Board (SAB) with addition of three new members. The new members will be joining an existing advisory board comprised of eighteen industry experts across the defense, foreign fffairs, communications/technology, and science industries. The new adviso
Delmar Systems, a supplier of offshore mooring and subsea services, is expanding its products and services with the acquisition of privately owned InterOcean Systems, which will be operated as an affiliated entity of Delmar. InterOcean Systems designs and manufactures oceanographic and environmental
Aveva, a provider of engineering data and design IT systems for the oil and gas industry, has broken off merger talks with France’s Schneider Electric, again. Namely, the company had said on Monday that the merger discussions would resume, after breaking down in December 2015. The trading of Aveva s
The main support frame for the Gina Krog topside has been loaded on to the heavy transport vessel Mega Caravan in South Korea. Statoil, the operator of the Gina Krog field located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, shared a time-lapse video of the main support frame for Gina Krog’s topside be
VBMS has been awarded a contract by Vattenfall Vindkraft for the installation of 33kV inter-array cables for the Horns Rev3 offshore wind farm. The farm, located in the eastern North Sea off the coast of Esbjerg, Denmark has a planned capacity of 400 MW and will produce the equivalent of the electri
TransCanada’s joint venture with IEnova, Infraestructura Marina del Golfo (IMG), has been chosen to build, own and operate the USD 2.1 billion Sur de Texas-Tuxpan natural gas pipeline in Mexico. The project will be supported by a 25-year natural gas transportation service contract for 2.6 billion cu
Forum Energy Technologies UK has unveiled a deep-water test facility and received industry accreditation for the calibration laboratory at its new European Operational Centre in Aberdeen. The indoor test tank is one of the largest in the North-east of Scotland and is dedicated to testing subsea tool
OceanGate, together with a team of explorers, conducted the mapping and the first manned submersible operation to the Andrea Doria shipwreck since 1995. The Italian passenger liner Andrea Doria sank in 1956 about 50 miles from Nantucket. The 697-foot-long wreck, often referred to as the “Mt. Everest
