The CFO of MultiClient Geophysical (MCG), Renate Mørch, has handed in her resignation and will leave the company when a successor is found, at the latest within three months. Renate Mørch has been the CFO of MCG since April 2008. Renate is a Norwegian citizen, and holds a Master in Business and Econ
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (March 23 – March 29). Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City (NSWC PC) scientists have developed a prototype for a new life support system for divers. The goal of the new system is to accelerate the
The Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Dredging Suez Canal, has posted on its official facebook page the latest photos of the New Suez Canal dredging program. The project was launched by the Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority Mohab Mamish in the presence of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sis
News in Photos: New Suez Canal Dredging The New Suez Canal development program is moving ahead and is scheduled to be completed this August. GEM Bags $65.6M Contract in Qatar Gulf Earth Moving (GEM), a Qatar-based subsidiary of the Belgian Aertssen Group, has just won a […]
DOF’s Skandi Africa and its crew have docked at the Huisman Schiedam quayside. The next months Huisman will install a 650mt Pipelay Tower, a 150mt Knuckleboom Crane and a 900mt Pedestal Mounted Crane onboard the vessel. In February 2014, Technip chartered a new construction vessel on a long-term bas
Italdraghe SpA, Italy’s best known dredger manufacturer, has just been awarded a contract to build another Marina Master 8000 dredger for the United Kingdom. This will be the second dredger of its kind to be supplied to a UK marina owner requiring versatile, easily-manoeuvrable, precision dredging e
A completely new subsea technology developed by companies in Haugesund north of Stavanger has been used by Gassco for inspection of the Knarr gas pipeline during March. The Surveyor Interceptor Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) had its first commercial outing in the North Sea for the Knarr Gas Pipelin
Two and a half months after Hydrex diver/technicians removed the bow thruster of a 363-meter container vessel in Rotterdam, a Hydrex team once again mobilized to reinstall the overhauled unit underwater with the use of the Hydrex flexible mobdock technique. The operation was performed in stages at s
On 26 March, the Solitaire pipe-laying vessel started on the first stage of the Polarled installation project. The 482-kilometre long pipeline will transport gas from the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea to Nyhamna in western Norway. Statoil is operator during the development of the Polarle
Eye4Software B.V. has released the latest version of their professional hydrographic survey package, Hydromagic version 7.0. The main purpose of this software is to map the bottom of rivers, reservoirs, frac pits, ponds and oceans in 3D. This is done using a connected RTK receiver together with a hy
Eye4Software B.V., specialized in developing GPS and GIS software for Windows, has released the latest version of its professional hydrographic survey package, the Hydromagic version 7.0. The main purpose of this software is to map the bottom of rivers, reservoirs, frac pits, ponds and oceans in 3D.
A “completely new subsea technology” developed by companies in Haugesund north of Stavanger has been used by Gassco for inspection of the Knarr gas pipeline during March. The Surveyor Interceptor Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) had its first commercial outing in the North Sea for the Knarr Gas Pipel
The first Turkish-made seismic survey vessel, MTA TURKUAZ, will be launched this weekend in Istanbul. The 86 meters long and 23 meters wide MTA TURKUAZ was built at the Istanbul Shipyard in Tuzla for the Mineral Research and Exploration Institute (MTA). The vessel will start oil exploration in the B
SAL Heavy Lift successfully completed the second phase of the Wikinger Pile Testing Campaign with DP II Class vessel MV Lone for its customer Bilfinger. The full test campaign comprised two phases with the tests being performed at three locations. During the first phase in November 2014 three sets o
