Rolls-Royce has signed a GBP 8 million (USD 11.4 million) contract to supply mooring system for the semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Sleipnir. The vessel will be built in Singapore by SembCorp Marine for the Dutch company Heerema Offshore Services. Asbjørn Skaro, Rolls-Royce, Executive Vice Pres
Rolls-Royce has signed a £8 million ($11.5M) contract to supply the mooring system for the world’s largest semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV), Sleipnir. The vessel will be built in Singapore by SembCorp Marine for the Dutch company Heerema Offshore Services. Asbjørn Skaro, Rolls-Royce, Executive V
Norway’s Statoil has reportedly given up on constructing a new platform to develop its Snorre 2040 project offshore Norway for a subsea solution which should cut costs, help improve recovery and extend the lifetime of the North Sea field. In October 2013, Statoil and its licence partners recommended
MacArtney continues to expand its business portfolio through a new partnership with dotOcean for North American markets. The agreement consolidates MacArtney’s strong position in key markets and provides customer access to the extensive range of dotOcean sediment and soil measurement products. dotOc
PGS will conduct a 8 200 sq. km survey of the Nordland Ridge area of the Norwegian Sea, starting early May and to be completed in 2016, the company informed on Thursday. This prefunded GeoStreamer project extends the existing PGS library coverage of the Halten Terrace to provide a regional dataset o
Wood Group is calling for expressions of interest from technology vendors to support a joint industry project (JIP) which aims to reduce subsea equipment failures in Australia and provide a recommended practice for the subsea industry. The Subsea Equipment Australian Reliability (SEAR) JIP is a part
DEME Environmental Contractors (DEC) – a subsidiary of DEME Group – has purchased a fleet of Hitachi hybrid excavators to work on its soil and sediment recycling centers in Belgium. Two of the ZH210LC-5s are based on the banks of the River Scheldt at Zwijndrecht, near Antwerp, with a third machine d
Norway-based Oceanteam has booked net loss of $2.9 million for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2015. The Oslo-listed company, comprised of two operating segments, Oceanteam Shipping and Oceanteam Solutions, generated $12.4 million in operating revenues, down approximately 21% compared to $15.8
South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) announced yesterday that the Board has approved a contract for the investigation and excavation of historical resources on the Yellow House Creek Borrow Site, a location from which soil fill material will be mined for construction of the Leatherman Terminal. The
UK-listed oil and gas player Tullow informed that potential problem has been identified following a recent inspection of the turret area of the Jubilee floating production storage and offtake vessel (FPSO) Kwame Nkrumah. The FPSO is moored in approximately 1,100 meters water depth on the Jubilee fie
iSURVEY, a provider of survey and positioning services to the oil and gas industry, has been awarded a marine construction support contract by Solstad Offshore in Thailand. Under the contract, iSURVEY will provide positioning and survey support for Solstad Offshore’s 2016 pipeline and platform insta
MacArtney has, via its subsidiary MacArtney Inc., signed an agency and sales representative agreement with dotOcean covering the North American continent. dotOcean is a Belgian company specialising in sediment and soil measurement systems and instrumentation. This deal is a continuation of partnersh
IHC has secured an order for a power cable plough, destined for DeepOcean’s new cable installation vessel ‘Maersk Connector’. The equipment comprises a 3.3 meter trench depth power cable plough, a sea state 5 LARS and tow winch. The 300 kW jetting system has been designed in close collaboration with
UK based C-Kore Systems delivered their subsea monitoring units to PTTEP Australasia for use on the Subsea Equipment Australian Reliability (SEAR) JIP. The aim of the SEAR JIP is to reduce subsea equipment failures through collaboration and knowledge sharing in order to improve subsea equipment desi
