Deep Down, Inc., an oilfield services company serving the offshore exploration and production industry, has received an order valued at $13 million. Deep Down said that the order received from an undisclosed client is the largest in the company’s history. According to Deep Down, the order includes o
Unique Group’s Buoyancy & Ballast division has entered into a collaboration agreement with React A/S of Stavanger. React A/S will provide in-country supply, service and support of Unique Group’s Seaflex equipment to Norwegian market, for both hire and sale. The agreement covers Seaflex water-filled
Pulse Structural Monitoring, an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract with National Oilwell Varco (NOV) Arendal in Norway to provide an acoustic mooring line subsea monitoring system to measure mooring line inclination and tension. The contract is for 12 mooring line subsea monitoring sensors
Austria’s Liebherr-Werk Nenzing G.m.b.H will construct and deliver two offshore cranes for an FPSO vessel to be deployed offshore Brazil. The company has received the order from the Singapore-based Jurong Shipyard, a subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, who is building the FPSO. The FPSO will be deployed
As part of the Great Lakes Tributary Modeling (GLTM) 516e Program, the USACE Buffalo District’s Sediment Transport Analysis and Regional Training (START) team has been delivering on their commitment to help stakeholders across the Great Lakes better understand the watershed they live in. “It has bee
A hydrographic survey of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore (SOMS) was launched today by the three littoral States – Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore – and the Malacca Straits Council of Japan at the Marina South Pier. This initiative was one of the key recommendations that arose from a study con
A brand new JULONG JLGC-1810 Aquatic Weed Harvester was commissioned in Poyang Lake, China last week. This aquatic weed harvester has a cutting width of 180cm and cutting depth of 100cm with the load capacity of 5 cubic meters. It has a working speed of 3km/h and cruising speed of 6km/h. One man in
A new North-east engineering company, Engineering Solutions and Rental (ESR), has been established by Fabritech UK’s managing director, Stuart Mackie, and engineering manager, Innes Smith, to meet demand from clients in the energy, subsea and renewable sectors. ESR directors Mackie and Smith, have i
Oceaneering informed that Marvin J. Migura has decided to relinquish his position as Executive Vice President (EVP) effective December 31, 2015. Migura will continue to serve as a Senior Vice President (SVP), reporting to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) M. Kevin McEvoy, and remain a part of the execut
The Netherlands has a new hydraulic research facility. Melanie Schultz van Haegen, Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment, and Henk Kamp, Minister of Economic Affairs, opened the new Deltares Delta Flume in Delft yesterday. This facility will be the location for full-scale studies of the eff
French oil major Total and its project partners installed a Long BaseLine (LBL) acoustic positioning network, using the Sonardyne Fusion 6G technology, at Kaombo oil field offshore Angola. The campaign to deploy, calibrate and make ready for work the field-wide array of transponder frames, was compl
Magma Global, manufacturer of m-pipe, has raised $60 million from Strategic Industrial Capital Partners (SICP) and existing investors to support its growth plans. According to Portsmouth-based company, the proceeds of the investment round will be used for the expansion of Magma’s manufacturing capab
FMC Technologies has appointed Kay Priestly, former chief executive officer of Turquoise Hill Resources, to its board of directors, effective October 2, 2015. Priestly retired from Turquoise Hill in December 2014. She became CEO in May 2012 after serving as a senior executive of Rio Tinto where she
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, will supply deck machinery for a new emergency rescue & response vessel (ERRV) for Aberdeen-based offshore support vessel operator, Sentinel Marine. According to MacGregor, the 65m ship has been designed by Focal Marine & Offshore Pte Ltd and will have a bollard pull of
