GE Oil & Gas has secured a four-year framework agreement to provide wellhead equipment and associated services to Statoil with the option of two, two-year extensions. GE Oil & Gas will provide its DWHC MS-700 SFX and MS-800 SFX wellhead systems to Statoil. The wellhead systems are designed to be a h
Aberdeen-based engineering firm OceanTools has released C-Scan, its new laser based optical 3D scanning system. Encased within subsea housings providing an operational depth rated at 3000m, the C-Scan system comprises a 360O rotary encoder plus a laser triangulation system capable of taking measurem
Spanish Navy’s Royal Observatory, in collaboration with the patrol boat Vigia, has deployed six seafloor seismometers about 90 miles southwest of Cape St. Vicente. The installation has been done at depths ranging between 4,700 and 4,900 meters. The devices consist of an anchor, buoys, seismic hydrop
Marine GeoSolutions (MGS), a Perth-based specialist marine geophysical & hydrographic survey company, has completed an offshore marine survey in support of Carnegie Wave Energy’s CETO 6 Yirra Wave Energy project. The project involved the acquisition of hydrographic and geophysical survey data at the
Saipem, through its subsidiary ERSAI Caspian Contractor LLC, has awarded GAS KCO (Kazakh subsidiary of GAS Italy) a contract for the survey and positioning services. GAS was recruited to provide these services during the construction of two pipelines of 95 km each which will connect D Island in the
Liebherr extends its generation 6 crawler tractor series to include the PR 726 Litronic, the successor to the successful PR 724. The series now totals four models with operating weights of approximately 16 tonnes to 41 tonnes, which comply with the emissions standards of Stage IV / Tier 4f. The new
Liebherr has just announced that their first model of the HS 8300 HD, the largest duty cycle crawler crane of Liebherr’s well-known HS series, has been sold to the Chioggia (Italy) based customer Zeta S.r.l. This piece of equipment will be installed on a ship for various dredging jobs in the Mediter
Xtera Communications has completed the loading of its second repeatered submarine cable system that will be deployed within the next 2 months in the Atlantic Ocean. This new repeatered project will go live after the successful upgrade of the High capacity, Undersea Guernsey Optical-fiber (HUGO) subs
Children at primary schools in the Buckie area are to help decide the name of Moray Council’s new £2.4 million dredger. A competition is being run over the next few weeks when pupils will be asked to suggest a suitable name for the vessel, which is currently under construction at the Macduff Shipyar
International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has just introduced the latest issue of Terra et Aqua, their official quarterly publication. The magazine is supported solely by the IADC as a service to the world-wide dredging community and represents IADC’s commitment to the highest standards
Subsea engineering company, OceanTools, has appointed Kris Yorke as UK and international business development manager. Yorke joins the Aberdeen-based firm with 15 years business development experience acquired in the field of automatic welding equipment for onshore and offshore oil and gas pipeline
ARCADIS, a design, engineering and management consulting company based in Amsterdam, has been appointed as lead engineer for the €675 million extension of the Port of Calais, France, by a joint venture led by Bouygues. ARCADIS will lead the engineering work from the final design to the detailed desi
France’s GTT, an engineering company specialized in LNG containment systems, secured a new order for one liquefied natural gas carrier to be built by the Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). The new LNG vessel, which is expected to be delivered in 2018, will be owned a
Alewijnse Marine Systems and Van Oord have signed a long-term service level agreement covering Van Oord cable-laying vessels Nexus and HAM601. The contract was started on September 01, 2015 and will run for three years, the company informed. The partnership involves management of the onboard electri
