FlatFish, the autonomous underwater vehicle developed by BG Brasil and SENAI Cimatec, was demonstrated to the public for the first time on December 4, in Salvador, Bahia. With a total investment of R$30 million from BG Brasil, SENAI Cimatec, the Brazilian Company for Industrial Research and Innovati
NorSea Group (UK) Ltd has won a five-year contract with Wild Well Control for the storage of its emergency response WellCONTAINED System at NorSea Group’s facilities in South Base, Montrose. The WellCONTAINED system of services includes contingency planning and response from Source Control Emergency
Dredge Yard – producer of mining/dredging components and equipment – has had a very busy year with the launch of a new dredger, supplying equipment and upgrading TSHDs and delivery of compact and economic sediment dredger for the Gulf region. The company also visited several dredging conferences and
NSW Department of Primary Industries has awarded a contract to Subcon for the design, fabrication and installation of the Port Macquarie Artificial Reef. The purpose built reef will be installed in Q1, 2016 and will establish a sustainable reef ecosystem providing recreational anglers with access to
The recently completed 14,530 km system upgrade of the West African Cable System (WACS), has gone live after completing a stringent customer certification and testing program, Huawei Marine informed on Tuesday. WACS is owned and operated by a consortium of 18 international and regional carriers whic
In cooperation with FKAB, HollandMT has successfully delivered a design for a spud lifting system to be used on a backhoe dredger. The spud lifting system is powered by hydraulic winches which also allow free floating of the moored dredger. To absorb shock loads during dredging operations, the spud
Wood Group has won a new, multi-year contract with ConocoPhillips in Australia. Effective immediately, Wood Group PSN will deliver brownfield engineering services to the Bayu-Undan field located south west of Timor-Leste and the Darwin liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Wickham Point, Darwin. Cont
Dutch geotechnical company Fugro will provide PGS’ entire seismic vessel fleet with satellite positioning systems. The Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) includes Fugro’s recently launched Starfix.G4 which gives sub-decimetre accuracy, and Starfix.G2+, a global service offering centimetre ac
The first woman Master in the UK Marine Aggregate Dredging Sector, Georgina Carlo-Paat, has recently completed her first tour of duty aboard CEMEX UK Marine aggregate dredger, the Sand Heron. Georgina is in command of one of four CEMEX dredgers that operate in waters around the UK, which provide app
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, has awarded an A-E hydrographic survey and mapping IDIQ contract to TerraSond. “This is our second consecutive IDIQ contract with the USACE Walla Walla District, and we are very pleased to have been awarded this multi-year contract again to sup
DNV GL, an international certification body, published what they say is the first industry standard providing guidance on offshore personnel transfer by gangway on December 8. According to the classification society, the DNVGL-ST-0358 will contribute in documenting and securing safe operational perf
SPT Offshore has received the Letter of Intent (LOI) for the detailed design of the suction pile foundation, design supervision of the jacket and full transportation and installation (T&I) of the Ophir wellhead platform (WHP) from Muhibbah Engineering (M) Bhd. MEB Ophir Muhibbah is the EPCIC contrac
Mteck BV, a Dutch based builder of custom cranes for dredging and stevedoring industries, has just delivered an electric dredge crane for Paans Van Oord. The crane, Mteck 200E, is powered by two generators, located below the deck, and these generators are also used for the propulsion. This piece of
Ingen Ideas, an Amec Foster Wheeler company, has landed a five-year multi-discipline engineering contract, worth approximately £8 million ($12 million) with Marathon Oil. The contract started in October 2015. It covers Marathon Oil’s Brae Complex in the North Sea and it has potential for two further
