Rolls-Royce said it has signed a collaboration agreement with Gas Natural Fenosa to develop and install a pure-gas Bergen engine aboard the Baleària-operated ferry Abel Matutes.
Holmatro and its Norwegian dealer EIVA-SAFEX AS have supplied 64 cylinders, each with a capacity of 536 tons, to the tension-leg platform (TLP) Snorre A, in the North Sea. Besides cylinders, the corresponding control and storage for the hydraulic system was also delivered. Improving load-cell calibr
Scaldis, an Antwerp-based specialist in marine heavy lift operations, has ordered a new crane ship, the Rambiz 4000, from the Dutch company Royal IHC. The vessel will be built under responsibility and coordination of Royal IHC in Qidong and finished in Xiamen, China. Scaldis has said that the ship i
IHC Hytech has informed the NST diver/technician team came successfully back on the surface after completing eleven interventions with in total 243 work hours at 10,8 bar in mixed gas saturation for Eurasia tunnel project in Turkey. The Eurasia Tunnel Project (Istanbul Strait Road Tube Crossing Proj
Fifty kilometers to the south of Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea, a new waterway is now being excavated parallel to the existing canal. This program is part of the Suez Canal mega project, which includes the development of several seaports in the three governorates bordering the canal, Suez, Isma
Dragflow, a world player in solid pumping solutions with over 25 years of experience in manufacturing heavy duty pumps and complete dredging equipment, is continuing the development of new products addressing the changing needs of dredging industry. Just a few days ago, we interviewed one of the com
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) have progressed their subsea lifting programme by successfully completing client-witnessed trials of Ambient Lifting technology at their Aberdeenshire research and development facility. Ambient Lifting works by decoupling the subsea load from the surface vessel by utilisi
Wave energy developer, Carnegie Wave Energy Limited, has reported a commercial and technical progress with its CETO 6 Project also to be located off Garden Island. Carnegie has now reached financial close on the previously announced Clean Energy Finance Corporation’s (CEFC) five-year, $20 million lo
Antwerp-based specialist in marine heavy lift operations, Scaldis Salvage & Marine Contractors NV, have ordered a self-propelled DP2 crane ship from Royal IHC. The Contract for the construction and delivery of the ship was signed on 29th January 2015. The design was drawn up in-house in cooperation
A program to manage approximately 330 miles of shoreline along the Columbia and Yakima rivers within Benton County has been approved by the Washington Department of Ecology. Approval of the locally tailored program puts the final stamp on a significant effort that increases protection and restoratio
Oceaneering International has appointed Roderick A. Larson, 48, as President and Chief Operating Officer of Oceaneering. Larson has been with Oceaneering since May 2012, serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer with worldwide responsibility for all of Oceaneering’s oilfield busin
The Russian state-owned port services company, FSUE Rosmorport, will expand its dredging fleet with four new dredging vessels in the 2016-2017 period, according to Executive Director of Rosmorport Andrey Lavrischev. The CEO revealed this information today at the II International Forum of Dredging Co
Norway’s Boa Marine Services’ AHTS/ROV vessel ‘Boa Bison’ has wrapped up its work at the Fecamp wind farm. The vessel was chartered by MT Højgaard to support the installation project. MT Højgaard lowered the Seatower Cranefree® foundation to a depth of nearly 30 metres on the seabed of the English C
BMT Oceanica, a marine and coastal environment specialist, has won the tender to be the sole consultant delivering the Town of Cottesloe’s (ToC) project ‘Coastal Monitoring to Improve the Understanding of Long-Term Coastal Change’. The project will develop an ongoing coastal monitoring program that
