John Duncan, the Minister of State and Chief Government Whip, has announced that the Government of Canada will invest in major improvement projects at nine small craft harbors in British Columbia. This funding will provide a safer and more efficient working environment for fishermen and harbor users
OSBIT Power has delivered two well intervention equipment projects, totaling several million pounds, to Helix Well Ops U.K. for installation on the Q7000, currently being built in Singapore. Each of the two projects is a bespoke, custom-made system; a set of twin Cursor type ROV Launch and Recovery
Subsea 7 today announced the award of a contract with a value of approximately $500 million by BP, and partner DEA, for the development of the Taurus and Libra subsea fields offshore Alexandria, Egypt. The contract is the first phase of Egypt’s West Nile Delta project where field development will be
Wood Group has secured a new contract to carry out front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the Woodside operated proposed Browse Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Development, offshore Western Australia. Wood Group Kenny (WGK) will perform all design engineering for the insulated production
Komatsu Europe International N.V. has launched its new PW160-10 wheeled excavator fitted with an EU Stage IIIB engine that boasts up to 8% less fuel consumption. Built on proven features of previous models, the PW160-10 offers faster cycle times with a heavier counterweight, excellent stability and
Nautilus Minerals announces that contract for the detailed design of the Solwara 1 dewatering plant to be used on the Company’s Production Support Vessel has been awarded to the Brisbane office of the DRA Group. Mike Johnston, Nautilus’ CEO, commented, “The Project team has been working closely with
Polarcus Limited has received a Letter of Intent (LOI) from an undisclosed client for a 3D marine seismic project offshore West Africa. The company said the project will be conducted utilizing Polarcus’ RightBAND technique for broadband data acquisition. The project, subject to the execution of a se
Stonehenge Metals Limited announces that the fully assembled workshop testing of the core energy conversion system components of the Protean™ Wave Energy Converter (WEC) has now been concluded. The Protean™ WEC technology program has now advanced to the ocean based or “wet” testing phase. Stonehenge
Dragados Offshore, an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor for the oil and gas industry, Saturday loaded out the jacket for the Mariner project, located in the UK North Sea. Statoil awarded the contract for the construction of the Mariner jacket to Dragados in 2012. According
ABB has commissioned and handed over the DolWin1 offshore wind grid connection to the Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT. The 800 megawatts (MW) High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) link connects offshore wind farms around 75 kilometers off the German coast in the DolWin cluster, with th
HYPACK, Inc., a provider of hydrographic and navigation software, will be holding its HYPACK Seminar on August 10th – 12th, 2015 in Cartagena, Colombia. The 3-day training seminar will be organized by their agent Marine Technology sp. z o.o. and will cover all the aspects of single beam and multibea
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, has just posted on its official facebook page this beautiful photo of their trailing suction hopper dredger Yaquina. So far this season, the vessel has traveled more than 4,500 miles while removing nearly a half million cubic yards of sediment fro
TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company, and Nistica, a Fujikura subsidiary, announced the availability of fully qualified wavelength selective switch (WSS) modules to be used in undersea networks. The joint development program between TE SubCom and Nistica focused on a rigorous design and develop
SAExploration Holdings, Inc. has announced a new project award for ocean-bottom marine seismic data acquisition services valued at approximately $47 million. The company says it expects to execute the project during the second half of 2015. According to SAExploration, this project will be performed
