Dril-quip, the Houston-based designer and manufacturer of offshore drilling and production equipment, is establishing a $15 million research and development facility in Singapore. The company said February 11 that the new facility, focusing on materials and products suitable for high pressure and hi
Australian Maritime College (AMC) at the University of Tasmania plans to build a new $750,000-facility dedicated to development of underwater robotic technologies. AMC’s autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) facility will be home to a fleet of robots used to survey the ocean’s depths and collect scien
Huisman’s chief executive officer André Meijer will step down from his position, with immediate effect, the company informed Wednesday. The company said it will implement an internal solution and adjust the management structure accordingly, if required. André Meijer took the job in August 2015 after
Singapore’s Flash Tekk Engineering has awarded the design and manufacture of Self-Propelled Hyperbaric Lifeboats (SPHL) contract to JFD – Divex. The SPHLs are to be installed as part of the 18-man saturation diving system on the Van Gogh diving support vessels (DSV). These are currently under constr
Norwegian ocean-bottom seismic specialist, Magseis, has, in combination with China’s BGP, secured a contract on Saudi Aramco’s S78 project for seismic acquisition in the Red Sea. On January 19, BGP informed it had won the bidding on Saudi Aramcos S78 project. The S78 is Saudi Aramcos’ first 3D surve
SPD Limited, part of the Petrofac Group, has secured a contract from Zennor Petroleum to provide well design and well construction management services, to support the Finlaggan appraisal well which is located in the Central Sector of the North Sea. The contract – awarded as a result of competitive t
Songa Offshore’s semi-submersible newbuild rigs Songa Equinox and Songa Endurance have been faced with BOP-related downtime during the past month, the offshore drilling contractor said Tuesday in its fleet update. Namely, from January 22, the Songa Equinox ops were suspended due to unplanned BOP-rel
The Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) on ‘Building with Nature’ will start on February 29, 2016. During the course, a number of case studies will be discussed to deepen the knowledge of ecological and engineering principles. Leading Dutch engineers and environmental scientists will explain the Buil
Tower Software Ltd., a company involved in providing custom built software and hardware to the Hydrographic Surveying Industry, has installed a new crane dredging control system on the UK Dredging vessel Cherry Sand. “Our in proprietary crane control system outputs data from the crane to the process
Technip has been awarded a contract by Deep Gulf Energy III, LLC (DGE) for the development of the South Santa Cruz and Barataria fields. The fields are located in Mississippi Canyon, offshore New Orleans, in the Gulf of Mexico, in approximately 2,000 meters of water depth. The contract consists of:
Australian marine services provider, Bhagwan Marine, has acquired Perth-based company Delta Subsea. Delta Subsea is recognised as a subsea engineering consultancy dedicated to delivering solutions to the offshore energy industry. As a result of the acquisition, Delta’s managing director, David Husba
Energomontaż-Północ Gdynia (EPG), a member of MARS Shipyards & Offshore, has completed construction of oil and gas loading elements for Norwegian Gina Krog field. Submerged turret loading (STL) and riser base, made by EPG, weigh 500 tones. Riser base will be installed on the seabed and will be used
Offshore helicopter firm Bristow Group has invested $4.2 million in Sky-Futures, a provider of drone inspection data services for the oil and gas industry. This investment gives Bristow immediate entry to the fast-growing UAV services business and bolsters Bristow’s offerings to include drone inspec
JFD has appointed Valerio Percoco as sales director. The appointment follows the company’s contract win with NATO, as well as the merger of James Fisher Defence, Divex and the National Hyperbaric Centre. Valerio Percoco joins JFD from Offshore Installation Services (OIS), the subsea integrated proje
