Van Oord, a Dutch contracting company that specializes in dredging and land reclamation, has deployed its trailing suction hopper dredger Volvox Asia to the New Suez Canal Project. The Volvox Asia will accompany three stationary cutter suction dredgers and a large self-propelled cutter suction dredg
Fugro has been hired by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, to execute the geotechnical site investigation and geological modelling of sites I and II of the future Borssele wind farm park. The 1,400MW wind farm zone is located off the Zealand coast at the sou
TTS Group ASA has, through its Business Unit Offshore, entered into three new agreements for delivery of offshore and deck cranes with a total order value of approximately 105 MNOK ($13.2 million). The main contract is with Singapore’s Triyards Marine Services for delivery of two active heavy compen
Rockland Scientific Inc. (RSI), has ordered a small instrumentation winch from the MacArtney Underwater Technology Group (MacArtney) at Ocean Business 2015. The winch system is specifically designed for use with the RSI VMP-250 vertical turbulence profiler. MacArtney and RSI delivered the first VMP-
The largest infrastructure project since the waterway’s original construction, the Panama Canal Expansion Program will create a new lane of traffic along the Canal through the construction of a new set of locks. To date, the Expansion Program is 88 percent complete. The Panama Canal Expansion is bas
L’Institut Polaire Français Paul-Emile Victor (IPEV, the French Polar Institute) has chosen Kongsberg Maritime subsea hydroacoustic package for the mid-life upgrade of the R/V Marion Dufresne. The delivery includes new Kongsberg Maritime hydrographic equipment in addition to a Simrad EK80 scientific
Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by BP to provide operations, maintenance and project support for the Forties Pipeline System (which includes the Unity offshore platform and onshore pumping stations in Aberdeenshire and Perthshire) and the Central Area Transmission System terminal in
Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL) and the Subsea Well Response Project (SWRP) announce delivery of a containment toolkit which can be used to minimise the environmental impact of a subsea well incident. This news builds on the successful delivery of four subsea well capping stacks in 2013-14, design
Kongsberg Underwater Technologies, Inc. (KUTI) has delivered the first Seaglider™ vehicle equipped with a Rockland Scientific International (RSI) MicroPod™ turbulence sensor. The vehicle was commissioned by the University of East Anglia in the UK (UEA). The MicroPod package is the result of extensiv
Bluestream Offshore has ordered a fourth Saab Seaeye Panther XT Plus ROV to undertake tasks normally performed by hydraulic vehicles. “Our clients want high-spec equipment to take on more complex construction work at a lower cost,” says Bluestream’s managing director, Rolf de Vries. “For instance, w
A Bergen-headquartered TTS Group ASA has won three contracts through its Business Unit Offshore for delivery of offshore and deck cranes. According to the company, the total worth of the contracts is about $13.21 million. TTS said in its press release that the main contract is with Singapore-based T
Vancouver-based subsea solution engineering company, OceanWorks, has constructed a 1/3 scale model node that will be installed in the Vancouver Aquarium’s Strait of Georgia tank later this month. Built by a team lead by systems engineer Richard Pomerleau, this demonstration node is a representation
Norfolk-based, Seabed Scour Control Systems (SSCS), has supplied a quantity of Weighted Frond Mats to Bibby Offshore’s Singapore division for installation along one of the pipelines on the Yadana field in the Andaman Sea. The Mats, delivered on behalf of Total Myanmar, are meant to provide freespan
Kongsberg Maritime has successfully completed the Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT) for the first delivery of its HUGIN Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) with a new cNODE integrated subsea positioning and communication system. During the testing of the new package, which took place during Quarter
