JDR, a provider of technology connecting the global offshore energy industry, has been awarded a contract by Marathon Oil, an oil and gas company, to provide umbilicals for the West Brae field, in the UK North Sea. Namely, JDR will be in charge of the design and manufacture of 11.3 kilometers of pow
Marine Power Systems (MPS), a Swansea-based company, has recently completed testing of its prototype pump, a key subsystem of the company’s WaveSub wave energy converter (WEC). The project has been part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government, with MPS receiving
Acta Marine has just announced the newest addition to their fleet – a 2611 multicat eurocarrier vessel, named Coastal Ace. The multicat vessel, enabling Acta to better assist their clients in the shallow water projects, has the length of 26,48 meters and is supported by two large cranes; a 1×100 T a
Bordelon Marine has selected acoustically-aided inertial navigation technology from Sonardyne Inc., Houston, for its new ultra-light intervention vessel (ULIV), Brandon Bordelon. The dual Ranger 2 Pro DP-INS systems will be used to track ROVs during inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) activitie
Aker Solutions has secured an order from Statoil to provide a concept study for a floating production, storage and offloading facility for the Johan Castberg oil field development in the Barents Sea. The order is a call-off by Statoil on an engineering contract for Johan Castberg won by Aker Solutio
FMC Technologies has signed an agreement with Woodside for the design, manufacture and supply of subsea production systems for the Greater Western Flank Phase 2 (GWF-2) Project as part of the North West Shelf (NWS) Project in Western Australia. The contract is valued at approximately $180 million fo
FMC Technologies, a U.S.-based supplier of subsea system for the oil and gas industry, has signed an agreement with Australia’s Woodside for the design, manufacture and supply of subsea production systems for an offshore project in Australia. The deal, valued at $180 million, is for the delivery of
Plexus Holdings has entered into a licence agreement with LLC Gusar and CJSC Konar to undertake the rental, manufacture and servicing of Plexus’ jack-up drilling wellhead exploration equipment into the Russian Federation and the other CIS states oil and gas markets. Gusar and Konar are two independe
EdgeTech, has signed an agreement with Equipment and Consulting for Hydrographic Operations (ECHO81) to act as an exclusive 6205 MPES representative for the Americas. Delray Beach-based ECHO81, a distributor of marine survey instrumentation, offers equipment, installation, training and support servi
Royal IHC and Adani Group have signed a contract for two IHC Beagle® 8 trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs). These two 8,000m³ vessels belong to the standardized IHC Beagle® series, designed and built by IHC using over a century of dredging experience. The IHC Beagle® series achieves high levels
The Damen Shipyards Group is constructing a trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) 650 for Australian client Gippsland Ports. The TSHD will be the first Damen dredger to operate in the country. The client will use the dredger to maintain entry to the port of Lakes Entrance and the Gippsland Lakes sy
LofotKraft AS has selected Nexans to deliver and install 170 kV XLPE cables to upgrade the current systems in three fjords Gimsøystraumen, Nappstraumen and Flakstadpollen to strengthen the power supply for residents throughout Lofoten, Norway. This will include upgrading the current grid capacity fr
Forum Subsea Rentals, a subsidiary of Forum Energy Technologies, and Aquatec Group have signed a global agreement for the rental of Aquatec’s LEAKlog leak detection and inspection suite. The Aquatec LEAKlog leak detection sensors are utilised for routine inspection and surveillance of subsea install
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 activities in the southern Indian Ocean. According to the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC), the towfish collided with a mud
