Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) has arranged a £4.5 million funding to start the deployment of an array of its PLAT-O tidal energy systems at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney. SME has conducted testing of its first PLAT-O prototype in the Solent, off the Isle of Wight, during 2014
MacGregor has broadened its Pusnes product range with the latest innovation, the chain-jack design Pusnes RamWindlass.
FMC Technologies won a Spotlight on New Technology award for its InLine ElectroCoalescer, and was recognized at the 2016 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston on Monday, May 2. According to the company’s press release on Tuesday, this award recognizes and honors innovative technologies in
Building on the ISA500 platform, Impact Subsea has released a right angled version of the underwater atimeter. The ISA500 encompasses a long range 500kHz altimeter, with optional integrated AHRS. Ben Grant, Managing Director, said: “The right angled version of the ISA500 provides a useful physical a
Barge Master has been awarded the Spotlight on New Technology Award at the Offshore Technology Conference being held this week in Houston, Texas. Barge Master, a Dutch motion compensation systems developer, announced on Tuesday that their Barge Master T40 motion compensated knuckle boom crane receiv
The PPG protective and marine coatings business is presenting its new PHENGUARD subsea coating system. According to the company, the new product combination of PHENGUARD Subsea 610 coating and PHENGUARD Subsea 780 coating is a two-coat subsea system with high-temperature resistance up to 180 C for s
Two Dutch firms Damen Shipyards Group and GustoMSC have teamed up and plan to produce a range of self-propelled and non-self-propelled jack-up platforms for the offshore industries – the DG JACK range. The collaboration deal was signed on Monday in Houston during the Offshore Technology Conference (
Oilfield services investment company, Akastor, has booked a first-quarter 2016 loss on sharp decline in revenues caused by the weak market. The Oslo-listed company recorded loss of NOK 366 million ($45.4 million) for the first quarter 2016 compared to loss off NOK 251 million ($31.1 million) in the
Halliburton and Baker Hughes have terminated the merger agreement they entered into in November 2014, effective April 30, 2016. In connection with the termination of the merger agreement, Halliburton will pay Baker Hughes the termination fee of $3.5 billion by Wednesday, May 4, 2016. To remind, the
Scottish firm Cyberhawk Innovations, an aerial inspection and survey specialists using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), is launching a Houston office in the USA, coinciding with the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. The company explains that the new office comes as a result of increasing dem
Oilfield services giant Schlumberger announced the launch of a new wireline conveyance system that, according to the company, can pull from 18,000 lbf to 30,000 lbf in wells 40,000 ft (12,192 m) deep or more. The new system is named MaxPull and was announced on Monday, May 2, 2016. Schlumberger said
GustoMSC, a Dutch company providing engineering and design services for the international offshore energy companies, is set to reveal its SmartCrane solution at the Offshore Technology Conference held in Houston, May 2-5, 2016. The company says that the SmartCrane can be retrofitted to existing cant
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (April 25-May 1, 2016). Spotlight on LNG-Powered Dredger Royal IHC recently released an article written by Robert van de Ketterij, Managing Director of IHC MTI, about the advantages and challenges of running a tra
The video shows the construction of the wellhead platform jacket for Maersk Oil’s Culzean field, located offshore UK. The jacket, 114 meters tall, left the Heerema’s Vlissingen yard mid April onboard a barge which transported it to its location in the Central North Sea approximately 200 km east of A
