Norway’s Blue Logic has secured a strategic R&D project with Innovation Norway and a major global service provider. The N0K 12 million industrial research and development contract is based on Blue Logic’s track record in producing inductive subsea connectors. Blue Logic worked together with WPC in K
Fugro has successfully completed a year-long wellhead monitoring project for BP Americas Inc, measuring BOP stack motions and calculating wellhead fatigue during a deployment in the Gulf of Mexico. The drilling campaign was conducted throughout 2014 in 6,000 ft of water depth and utilised the Fugro
Topaz Energy and Marine, an offshore support vessel company, has selected ABS as its fleet management software provider. According to the press release, Topaz will use the ABS Nautical Systems Fleet Management Software. ABS says that this new relationship marks the continued expansion into the Middl
Independent Oilfield Services (IOS) has secured planning permission to develop a further 30 acres of its 80 acre supply base at the former Longside airfield, near Peterhead, Scotland, to create secure warehouse facilities for the oil and gas and renewables industry. The firm, which also has an offic
Exova, the global testing, calibration and advisory services provider, has been awarded a £2.5 ($3.82) million contract by CRC–Evans Offshore to provide pipeline material, welding and AUT qualification testing for the Kaombo project offshore Angola. Pipelaying on the ultra-deepwater offshore project
Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel, Stornes, has recently been in Damen Shiprepair & Conversion Rotterdam for a scope of work which allows the vessel to operate at greater water depths in future. Stornes is a 175m long, 26.24m wide, DP2 vessel used for subsea rock installation to protect piping. Si
Ian Holden, currently Project Surveyor with DOF Subsea in Aberdeen, has been elected Chairman of The Hydrographic Society UK (THS UK) in succession to David Parker, the UKHO’s Hydrography Manager with particular responsibility for its Civil Hydrography Program (CHP). A former Liverpool Port Hydrogra
Sweden’s MMT selected Sonardyne’s acoustically aided inertial navigation system, SPRINT for its 2,000 metre rated remotely operated vehicle, Surveyor Interceptor. Designed for subsea vehicles, Sonardyne believes, SPRINT makes optimal use of acoustic aiding data including USBL, LBL and Doppler Veloci
Connect LNG, a Norwegian engineering company, said it has recently finalized customer studies, proving cost reductions associated with the construction of vessel berthing and LNG loading. Connect LNG’s loading solution has through recent customer projects shown cost savings of up to 80% compared to
Connect LNG, a Norwegian engineering company, said it has recently finalized customer studies, proving cost reductions associated with the construction of vessel berthing and LNG loading. Connect LNG’s loading solution has through recent customer projects shown cost savings of up to 80% compared to
NEMO LINK announced the two winning contractors who will build the first electricity interconnector between Great Britain and Belgium. They are Siemens and J–Power Systems, the Japan-based company, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. The contracts are together valued at about €500m (U
Diamond Fields International (DFI ) has announced a restart of offshore marine operations on its Namibian concessions in a joint venture with International Mining and Dredging South Africa (IMD), a subsidiary of International Mining and Dredging Holdings, Limited (IMDH) and an associate company of N
By depositing a large amount of sand in a single operation, between March 2011 and November 2011, Rijkswaterstaat together with contractors and the provincial authority of Zuid-Holland created the hook-shaped peninsula, the Sand Motor. This innovative method for coastal protection is the first exper
Damen Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam is constructing an innovative razor shell dredger for the Dutch fishing cooperative YE 118 Noordland BV. The 43-meter vessel, sharing the same name as the cooperative, shows how a standard Maaskant design can be modified to meet the ever changing requirements of t
