Royal IHC (IHC) has joined forces with Tompkins UK – the parent company of Modus Seabed Intervention – to enter the deep and ultra-deep water, oil and gas geotechnical survey and site investigation market under the banner of TI Geosciences. Tompkins’ extensive experience and track record in offshore
Wave Energy Scotland will receive a total of £14.3 million over the next thirteen months, Energy Minister Fergus Ewing announced today. ‘Wave Energy Scotland’ awarded its first contract to a group of 12 former Pelamis employees, led by former Chief Executive of Pelamis Wave Power Richard Yemm, to ca
Lieutenant Commander Richard “Soapy” Watson has been appointed as Global Training Manager for National Hyperbaric Centre (NHC). During 2014, the centre drove forwards development within its successful training department. New courses were added to the NHC portfolio including Subsea Isolations and RO
Houston-based, Cameron, has elected Brent J. Smolik and R. Scott Rowe to the Company’s Board of Directors, effective today. Smolik has served since 2012 as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of EP Energy Corporation, a Houston-based oil exploration firm. Before assuming his current posi
Many operators in the Asia Pacific have specialist intervention and workover teams in place that are dedicated to improving well work and ensuring enhanced production from their current portfolio or planning for a safe and effective plugging and abandonment program. Due to the challenges with ageing
Jumbo completed the subsea installation of the replacement MEG riser for the Ikhwezi Project at the existing FA Platform, at the end on January 2015. The contract was awarded by PetroSA at the end of 2014, Jumbo informed. Jumbo’s Fairplayer, a DP2 Heavy Lift Crane Vessel with 2 x 900 Te revolving de
Konecranes will deliver 10 all-electric Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes to the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA). The RTGs will go into service at Garden City Terminal, Port of Savannah. With this delivery, scheduled for the summer of 2016, the Port of Savannah will operate a total of 146 Konecranes RT
Odfjell Drilling has been awarded the drilling engineering sub-contract for the Johan Sverdrup drilling platform topside. Odfjell Drilling will be one of Aibel’s major sub-contractors for their engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Drilling Platform Topside for Johan Sverd
Dragados Offshore México, S.A. has recently awarded IKM Testing Mexico, S. de RL de CV with two contracts. The first contract is for torquing services plus pneumatic and hydraulic testing and the other one is for chemical cleanings. The works will be carried out on the CB and CA Litoral A Platform i
The Port of Houston Authority is ready to provide cost-efficient and consistent solutions to cargo owners and logistics companies, Executive Director Roger Guenther said yesterday in his monthly report to the Port Commission. “We continue to receive many inquiries about moving freight from East Asia
Neptune Marine Services’ Subsea Stabilisation division has completed the structural grouting of the Riser Support Structure (RSS) under contract to a subsidiary of McDermott International, Inc. for the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project, off Australia. McDermott is the appointed main contractor for
Jumbo has completed the subsea installation of the replacement MEG riser for the Ikhwezi Project at the existing FA Platform, offshore South Africa. PetroSA awarded this fast track execution contract on December 5, 2014. According to Jumbo, with less than a month of engineering and preparation time,
With extensive experience and knowledge in dredge construction and operation, ECTMarine has developed a dredge technology that makes high performance dredging transportable and quickly operational in any situation. The dredge comes in two sizes the Quick dredge 25/170 and the Quick dredge 25/230. Th
FKAB China has informed that the MV Zhen Hua 7, the semi-submersible heavy lift vessel (SSHLV) converted from an aframax tanker, has completed various trials and tests and is now on its way to Africa for cargo operation. FKAB conducted the conversion design of a 15 years old aframax tanker “Mako” fo
