Siport21, a maritime and port engineering consulting company, has presented three studies at the XIII Spanish Coastal and Port Engineering Congress, held in Aviles, Gijon. These studies are examples of the latest projects developed by the company; Maritime Traffic Analysis in the Port of Bahia Blanc
Engineering and consulting firms setec and Royal HaskoningDHV have been selected by VNF, the French navigable waterways authority, to jointly provide program management assistance over 12 years for a canal link extending from France to Belgium. The vast new Canal Seine-Nord Europe will connect the b
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has been awarded three dredging-related contracts on the African subcontinent with a combined value of approximately EUR 75 million. In Angola, Boskalis has been awarded a contract by Angola LNG Ltd. for dredging activities related to maintaining the access channel an
DNV GL and ExproSoft are working together to offer a new approach to testing barrier valves in subsea completed wells that could reduce downtime, cost, and risk related to shut-in and restart of wells. “In Norway, today’s current prescriptive approach to well testing can result in up to 3 days lost
Ampelmann, a company focusing on development, construction and lease of offshore access solutions, has been awarded a contract by an oil & gas major operating in the Southern North Sea to provide access solution for its offshore assets. The Ampelmann A-type system is used for deploying workforce mor
Hydrex performed propeller croppings on two vessels berthed in Algeciras, close to the Spanish Hydrex office. The first operation was carried out on a 174-meter LPG tanker, the second one on a 230-meter bulk carrier. Both ships had suffered torn off pieces, severe cracks and bents on all four propel
Completion of a coffer dam in the River Tay at the site of V&A Museum of Design Dundee marks a major milestone in the £80.11 million construction project, Royal BAM Group announced. The V&A Dundee building will protrude out into the River Tay. To enable the land reclamation work to progress, BAM Con
Air Products signed an agreement to provide its proprietary LNG technology, equipment, and process license for Freeport LNG’s Train 3 gas liquefaction and export project.
Air Products signed an agreement to provide its proprietary LNG technology, equipment, and process license for Freeport LNG’s Train 3 gas liquefaction and export project.
Dong Energy has awarded a contract to supply subsea power cables for the Race Bank offshore wind farm to UK-based company JDR. For this contract, JDR will design and manufacture 110 kilometres of 36 kV inter-array cables and provide offshore testing and termination services. The scope of work also i
Forsys Subsea, a 50/50 joint venture between FMC Technologies and Technip, was officially launched earlier this month. Forsys Subsea was announced in March this year as a joint venture that will unite the skills and capabilities of two subsea giants. We were interested to learn more about one of the
The Shanghai Ocean University has established a research center at the Zhangjiang High-Tech Park to assemble the “Rainbow Fish” submersible that can go down deeper than the nation’s first deep-sea submersible “Jiaolong,” which touched 7,000 meters. China’s new deep-sea research program aims to build
Van Oord has signed a contract with DONG Energy for the installation of foundations at the Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm in the UK. Van Oord will install the project’s 32 monopiles and transition piece foundations, supply and install the scour protection and provide the logistics between t
International oilfield services company, Expro, has been awarded new contracts from Tullow Oil. Worth in excess of $100 million over three years, the contracts will see Expro work across Tullow Oil’s assets in Ghana, including the Jubilee Field and the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) field project. Fo
