RV Celtic Explorer has laid a subsea cable in Galway Bay this week marking a milestone in the development of Ireland’s national marine research and development infrastructure. The four kilometre cable, and a frame to which sensors and monitoring equipment will be attached is part of the development
Norway’s Marin Teknikk has entered into a contract with China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI), for design & engineering delivery for a new developed large Multipurpose Diving Support & Construction Vessel to Ultra Deep Charter Ltd. (UDS) in Singapore. The vessel will be of the MT6023 DSCV design, wi
The following video shows petroleum and energy minister Tord Lien opening the Valemon gas and condensate field in the North Sea today. According to Statoil, expected recoverable reserves from the field are 192 million barrels of oil equivalent. “Valemon is one of several new projects on the Norwegia
Oilfield services investment company, Akastor, has confirmed that its wholly owned portfolio company MHWirth will axe its global workforce due to deterioration in the rig market. Namely, in February this year, MHWirth announced it will be reducing its workforce between 500-750 people. In line with t
Bermuda-based vessel owner, Toisa Limited, has inked a deal with Qingdao Wuchuan Heavy Industry (QWHI) for the construction of two DP2 Multi-Purpose Offshore Construction & ROV Support Vessels (RSV’s), to be delivered in mid-2017. According to Sealion Shipping, the vessel design is by Salt Ship Desi
Huisman has started the final factory acceptance testing of its first 900mt Rope Luffing Knuckle Boom Crane, now called the ‘Hybrid Boom Crane’, at the quayside of the Huisman China Production facility in Zhangzhou. The crane was fully assembled in the main assembly hall and upended by Huisman’s 2,4
Australia’s provider of transport and logistics to the resources sector, Toll Group, has started works on the offshore logistics base it is constructing for INPEX’s Ichthys LNG Project. Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles joined Toll Global Resources CEO David Jackson and INPEX Director, Co
GMC LTD has just completed the Basic Design of a self-installing Buoyant Tower for the Prinos Field Development for Energean Oil and Gas (Athens, Greece). The design brief was twofold to find a way to extend the life and utility of the existing Prinos infrastructure, and to find a cost effective and
Survitec Group Norway has won a contract with Statoil for supplying 7500 items of safety equipment to the Johan Sverdrup oil field in the North Sea. The new framework agreement of supplying the oilfield, is the largest single product sales contract ever awarded to Survitec’s Norwegian business, the
N-Seatec Subsea Systems B.V. (Seatec), a provider of technical solutions and services to clients in On-and Offshore Industry, has secured two orders for its systems. The first one is a repeated order for Seatec’s complete Innova Matrix MK II+ system. The Matrix MK II is a stand-alone fibre optic mul
iXBlue is celebrating a sales milestone of more than 250 USBL systems since the introduction of POSIDONIA (very-long-range USBL) in 1999 and GAPS (pioneering single-enclosure USBL-INS) in 2004. Latest 4th-generation GAPS, with L/USBL and DP features, was delivered to SapuraAcergy, an engineering and
Nautronix has reported that the NASNet array in Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen field is fully operational and awaiting first field construction. Last year Nautronix secured an order with Subsea 7 to supply 16 NASNet stations along with a wet-stored spare station and three additional MTrx beacons to provid
Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have shown how air bubbles could keep sediments from obstructing bends in river waterways such as the Rhine River, which has to be dredged regularly to stay open for freight ships. The Rhine River is a crucial transport artery, carrying
Corvus Energy, Siemens AS and Ostensjo Rederi strengthen their partnerships with a second offshore vessel project. The new 150m MPSV to be named the Edda Freya will incorporate a 1050VDC, 546kWh Corvus ESS consisting of 84 Corvus Energy AT6500 advanced lithium polymer battery modules. This new proje
