CKT Projects, a Dutch company building accommodation modules for the offshore oil and gas industry, is set to make a milestone when it delivers the living quarters (LQ) for Norway’s first deepwater development project, the Aasta Hansteen. According to CKT, it took the company more than two years of
With immediate effect and for a period of approximately 5 months, dredging operations will be carried out in the Nim Wan area in Deep Bay (Shenzhen Wan), the Marine Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) informs. The works will be carried out by one grab dredger and one derr
Norway’s AGR, a global oil and gas services company, will provide well construction and drilling operations support for the Cara Well, located in license area PL636 in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. AGR said Monday it has been awarded an agreement with operator GDF SUEZ E&P Norge to deliver we
Boskalis has completed reinforcing Maersk Oil’s Dan Bravo platform in the North Sea, offshore Denmark. Dan is the oldest producing field in Denmark. The oil production started on July 4, 1972, and according to Maersk Oil, close to 28 % of total Danish oil production has been extracted from the Dan F
As part of a $1 billion, five-year modernization plan, which also includes dredging, land-side infrastructure works and wharf improvements, the Port of Houston Authority (PHA) last week commissioned the first of four new Super Post-Panamax ship-to-shore (STS) cranes at its Barbours Cut Container Ter
Royal IHC has announced the sale of an Easydredge® 3700, the largest vessel in the Easydredge® series of standard twin-screw trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHD), designed and built by IHC. This innovative and flexible Easydredge® concept can be tailor-made to suit requirements, without compromis
Centrica Energy Norway, a subsidiary of the UK-based oil company Centrica, has adopted a new drilling method, for which the company says it has never been used before in the oil and gas industry. The company also claims the method reduces drilling costs. The solution was recently used on the Butch f
The Danish grid operator, Energinet.dk, has invited contractors to apply for design, production, delivery, execution and completion of 2 x 25 km 3 core 150 kV subsea cable, intended for Kriegers Flak Combined Grid Solution (KF CGS). The work scope also includes transport and laying of the 150 kV sub
DEME has developed an innovative technique and pontoon to seal and reinforce canal and river bends. This solution, the bentonite mattresses laying pontoon called the MATTEDOOR, is currently being used for the widening of the Juliana Canal. The Juliana Canal forms a vital navigation route between Lim
TGE Marine informed it has recently signed a deal to design and supply LNG fuel gas system for Heerema’s semi-submersible crane vessel.
Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), an engineering and fabrication contractor for offshore structures to the oil and gas industry, has opened the Heerema Innovation Center. The new center is located near the Group’s headquarters, in Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands. According to Heerema, the first project
BIRNS has launched a new range of coaxial subsea connector contacts. According to the company, the BIRNS Millennium series connectors developed with the new contacts have had great testing results, including a maximum insertion loss of 0.7 dB at signal frequencies to 3GHz, with an associated maximum
Australia’s Fastwave has recently received orders on behalf of BP and Shell for its Voyager oil spill tracking buoys. The orders include provision of Fastwave’s satellite telemetry and data management service. This was the second tranche of buoys to be supplied to BP, and follows orders from Woodsid
UTEC NCS Survey has been awarded a contract for heavy lift support services for the Wikinger offshore wind farm project in the Baltic Sea. The Wikinger offshore wind farm is located 34 kilometers northeast of the island of Rügen and will generate a total capacity of 350 MW. Partnering with LDD the c
