Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (January 25 – January 31). The MV Fugro Discovery has lost the sonar vehicle deep tow (towfish) being used to search the ocean floor for the missing Malaysian Airline MH370 while conducting search acti
GE Oil & Gas, the London-based oil and gas services company has teamed up with oil and gas firm BP to create a digital solution to reduce unplanned downtime for offshore operations. In an announcement made January 28, the company said that unplanned production downtime, particularly in offshore oper
The Sas van Vreeswijk consortium has won a contract for the construction of the 3rd chamber Beatrix lock and the widening of the Lekkanaal. The consortium includes BESIX, Heijmans, Jan De Nul and investors RebelValley and TDP, supported by Martens en Van Oord, specialized in earthmoving, and Agidens
Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has been awarded a contract from Petrofac for the procurement & construction of the jacket and piles for BorWin3. Petrofac, in a consortium with Siemens, has the full responsibility for the construction and offshore installation of the BorWin3 platform of TenneT, whic
Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard, part of United Shipbuilding Corporation, held today the launching ceremony for the 1000 m³ trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Sommers’. The dredger comes as the first in a series of three TSHD 1000 vessels that the shipyard is building for FSUE Rosmorport. The TSHD 1000 was
UK’s C-Kore Systems, has been awarded a contract for BP to purchase their C-Kore Subsea Monitoring tools. Reportedly, BP tested the tools on earlier umbilical installation projects and will now buy a number of units for its Quad 204 project in the North Sea. According to the company, the C-Kore unit
The video above is a timelapse movie of the Skandi Africa, from its arrival at Huisman Schiedam quayside, until departure, including the installations of the Pipelay System and Cranes. The Skandi Africa is a DP class 3 offshore subsea construction vessel, built for Norwegian offshore vessel owner DO
Researchers at Norway’s SINTEF are currently working together with partners in Europe to develop sensors and lasers for a new underwater camera which can, reportedly, see two to three times further under water than existing cameras and calculate distances to objects. The new tool is designed to make
San Jose-based Deep Ocean Engineering has named Raul Enrique Pena as its vice president of sales and marketing. He is to drive the growth of Deep Ocean while expanding its presence internationally, the company said. Pena brings to the company a knowledge of sales, channel management, business develo
The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has ordered four more Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes from Konecranes for the Port of Savannah, Georgia. The crane purchases, along with the ongoing Savannah Harbor deepening, anticipate the opening of an expanded Panama Canal, set for this year. The Savannah Harbor Expa
A project to build one of the world’s largest pipe laying systems has reached a major milestone with the arrival of the main tower section at Port of Blyth. The structure, designed by IHC Engineering Business, part of Royal IHC, and weighing almost 1,000 tonnes, has been shipped in from The Netherla
Italian Oil and Gas industry contractor, Saipem, has selected Tritech’s Gemini 620pd multibeam profiling system for its work class remotely operated vehicles (WROVs). Namely, Saipem has purchased a suite of Tritech products comprising Gemini 620pd sonars, Surface Control Units (SCUs) and Gemini Hubs
An international classification society, Bureau Veritas, has issued its first Approval in Principle for an Ocean Thermal Energy Converter (OTEC). The approval applies to a 1MW plant developed by the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO) which will be built for installation
Oil and gas company Shell has selected the Netherlands-based rope manufacturer Lankhorst Ropes to supply the mooring lines for the Appomattox development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Some 140 nautical miles south-east of New Orleans, the semi-submersible four-column production platform will be moored
