2H Offshore, an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract by Chevron to manage a production riser weld qualification testing programme. According to 2H Offshore, the aim of the development of 20,000 psi technology is to qualify the equipment required to develop future offshore fields with design p
Equinix announced support for the new FASTER subsea cable system which runs on the trans-Pacific route, connecting United States and Japan. The cable will be backhauled into four of Equinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers on the West Coast of the United States including Silicon
A brand new JULONG 10 inch jet suction dredger, with a pump capacity of 1200 m³/h, was recently commissioned in Kazakhstan. The maximum working depth of this dredging machine is 10 meters. The dredger is equipped with a 220kw diesel engine for the dredge pump, and a 75kw diesel generator to supply p
XPD8 Solutions, an Aberdeen-based asset integrity management specialist, has secured a significant two-year contract with CNR International. The agreement will see the firm providing condition monitoring services to five CNR platforms in the North Sea. Gordon Ellis, operations director at XPD8, said
Oceaneering has entered into a two-year, subsea field support vessel services agreement with an oil and gas company in India for use of the Island Pride. Anticipated start date is in November 2015 upon completion of the vessel’s mobilization from the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The contract provides
The EPA is providing additional time for the public to provide input on a plan that outlines how GE will dismantle and decontaminate its 110 acre sediment processing facility in Fort Edward, NY. This facility was built to support the dredging of the Hudson River PCBs superfund site. The plan, called
Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) has delivered a QTrencher 1000 ROV to KT Submarine, after successful completion of factory acceptance testing. Prior to this delivery for the Korean subsea cable specialist, SMD supplied a standard cable plough in 1998, followed by the supply of a MD3XT 500kW, jetting ass
The final pipe in the 482.4 kilometre long Polarled Pipeline was laid at the Aasta Hansteen field at a depth of 1,260 metres in the Norwegian Sea on Monday, September 28. Polarled is the first pipeline on the Norwegian continental shelf that crosses the Arctic Circle and opens up a brand new highway
Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has successfully completed another subsea cable protection project in the German North Sea. The contract, which required the firm to install mattresses at all cable crossings along the 70-km route, from Sandbank offshore windfarm to the converter station, SylWin Alph
Drass of Italy has been selected by VARD Shipyard to supply a 12-man single bell 100 series saturation diving system for Kreuz Subsea new diving support vessel. The vessel will be of VARD 3 17 design, with a total length of 91.2 meters and a beam of 21.5 meters, and has been developed for diving sup
OceanGate, an operator of manned submersibles, has completed trials of its new mobile Launch and Retrieval System (LARS) in the Gulf of Mexico during a two-week expedition to the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Operated similarly to a ship dry dock, LARS is intended for launching and
Subsea Systems Institute, a national research center established in Houston to develop the transformative technologies, engineering and operational practices to safely and sustainably produce deepwater offshore energy resources, has named Bill Maddock as it new director. Maddock is a marine and offs
RigNet, Inc., a provider of managed remote communications solutions, telecoms systems integration services and collaborative applications to the oil and gas industry, has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract upgrade and extension to provide standardized remote offshore communications solutio
Danish drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has awarded a three-year VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) contract to ITC Global, a provider of satellite communications to remote and harsh environments. The contract includes VSAT connectivity across more than half of Maersk Drilling’s global fleet of
