Van Oord, a Dutch contracting company that specializes in dredging and land reclamation, has just signed another major contract in Maldives. According to the Maldives’ Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure, the agreement will involve dredging, reclamation and civil works in the Thinadhoo, Feydhoo a
Van Oord has reached an agreement with DONG Energy for the transport and installation of the 87 foundations at Walney Extension offshore wind farm in the United Kingdom. After completion in 2018 the wind farm will deliver sustainable energy to 460,000 households. The Walney Extension offshore wind f
MTG, an international company specialized in the design and production of systems for earth moving machinery, is attending the Europort exhibition in Rotterdam, introducing its latest solutions for the dredging market. The main innovation is DMet, a G.E.T system for the dredging market that improves
Ashtead Technology has secured a global asset management agreement with Blue Ocean Monitoring to store, maintain and supply underwater gliders for ocean data monitoring. The deal will see Blue Ocean Monitoring expand its service offering globally with Ashtead providing asset management services and
Norwegian oil and gas engineering and construction company Aker Solutions saw its revenues fall amid declining subsea services demand. The company said the drop in demand was especially felt in the North Sea region. Revenue for the third quarter was NOK 7.5 billion, down from NOK 8.3 billion in 2014
Wim Biesemans joins the Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group DEME as CEO of DEME Concessions. “I have always been lucky enough to work for growing companies or on promising start-up projects. I love building strong teams that can grow together and that’s exactly what I expect
Aker Solutions has delivered lower third-quarter profit as its revenue dropped some NOK 800 million from the prior-year quarter on subsea services activity decline in the North Sea market. Norwegian oil services company generated net income of NOK 205 million ($23.8 million), or NOK 0.75 per share,
Linxtelecom has chosen Ekinops to provide equipment for a 4 Tbps (terabits per second) submarine optical ring linking the three major cities in the Baltic Sea. Ekinops announced that the Linxtelecom ring, over submarine cable, is now operational and connects Tallinn in Estonia, Helsinki in Finland,
Heerema Fabrication Group informed that preparations are being made for the sail away of the Alba B3 jacket to Equatorial Guinea for Marathon Oil’s Alba field third gas compression platform. Heerema is the main EPCI contractor for the 6,000-ton Alba B3 compression platform. The 1500-tons jacket has
CCC (Underwater Engineering) S.A.L has selected Sonardyne’s Ranger 2 acoustic positioning technology for its entire fleet of dynamically positioned (DP) diving and support vessels. Supplied by Sonardyne Asia Pte. in Singapore, the Ranger 2 systems will be used as independent position references for
In order to celebrate the “Company of the Year 2015” (Onderneming van het Jaar) award, last week, DEME brought its trailing suction hopper dredger Congo River in Antwerp, giving the public opportunity to tour the vessel. TSHD Congo River, one of the newest ships in DEME fleet, has the hopper capacit
Coretrax, a wellbore clean up and abandonment specialist, has completed a three-year decommissioning contract with operator Hess Corporation for the first designated abandonment campaign of its kind. The project began in 2012, involving 30 well abandonments at the FFFA and IVRR fields in the UK Nort
Seatronics, an Acteon company, has formed a new partnership with a Norwegian subsea tooling firm LateraL. According to the company, the new agreement would provide Seatronics’ global customer base with access to the FlexiCal product line. FlexiCal is an ROV mounted caliper that allows for direct mea
CoreSite Realty Corporation will host the FASTER submarine network’s Los Angeles landing, directly connecting the West Coast of the U.S. with Japan. Backed in part by Google, FASTER addresses the traffic demands for broadband and mobile content on the trans-Pacific route. FASTER is backed by a total
