Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (February 02 – February 08). Shell’s announcement on awarding the Brent field decommissioning contract to the Allseas’ Pieter Schelte attracted comments and reactions from maritime workers union. Accor
Norwegian offshore wind and oil & gas services player, Reef Subsea, has filed a bankruptcy petition to Bergen District Court despite company’s efforts to restructure and cut costs in order to stay afloat in today’s challenging market. The company, established in February 2010 and 100% owned by Stava
Norway’s Kongsberg has reported a profit after tax of NOK 32 million in Q4 2014, down from 375 million in the same period last year. The company has also posted a preliminary profit for the year after tax of MNOK 880, compared to last year’s MNOK 1 225. Namely, Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies KOGT
Saipem, through its subsidiary ERSAI Caspian Contractor LLC, has been awarded a major new Engineering & Construction contract for the Kashagan field project, located in the Kazakh waters of the Caspian Sea, valued at approximately $1.8 billion. The North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC) has awarded
Wallsend-based manufacturer of subsea vehicle systems, Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) has been acquired by Zhuzhou CSR Times Electric Co, a subsidiary of Chinese company CSR Corporation. The Hong Kong-listed company has bought SMD from Inflexion Private Equity and SMD’S management team for, according t
MMT has appointed Audun Brandtzæg as Managing Director for MMT Norway and the office is located in Haugesund, Norway. Audun Brandtzæg will be responsible of developing MMT’s operations in Norway, from market and business development to implementation of projects. Audun will also contribute to compan
Researchers of the University of Washington built a new underwater robot, named “Millennium Falcon”, for the purpose of deploying instruments to gather information about how marine life interacts with underwater equipment used to harvest wave and tidal energy. Researchers still don’t fully understan
Seatronics, an Acteon company, and 2G Robotics have announced a global sales and distribution partnership. The 2G Robotics line of underwater laser scanners will now be available through Seatronics for equipment rentals and sales, Seatronics wrote in a press release. Phil Middleton, deputy managing
Solo Oil has announced the operator of the Kiliwani North (“KN”) gas field offshore Tanzania, Aminex, has advised that the newly constructed gas export pipeline from the Songo Songo processing plant to the KN-1 gas well has been completed to within approximately 20 metres from the KN-1 production we
In early January 2015, a team of MBARI engineers, led by Andy Hamilton, set out to sea to recover an experimental buoy that creates electrical energy from ocean waves. This power buoy had been deployed six miles southwest of Moss Landing Harbor for 131 days, while the engineers tested the system’s a
Eni Norge has reported that the Goliat platform has been towed on board the Dockwise Vanguard at the HHI yard in South Korea. The largest cylindrical FPSO (Flotating production, storage and offloading) facility ever built, and specially designed for the Arctic conditions of the Barents Sea by Sevan
TGE Marine informed that in mid-January it has delivered the skid-mounted LNG fuel gas package units destined for the conversion of the first Qatari Q-max carrier to run on LNG or HFO.
TGE Marine informed that in mid-January it has delivered the skid-mounted LNG fuel gas package units destined for the conversion of the first Qatari Q-max carrier to run on LNG or HFO.
Eni Norge has informed that the Goliat platform has now been towed on board the Dockwise Vanguard, “the largest marine transport vessel in the world”. According to Eni, the Goliat platform is the largest and most sophisticated cylindrical FPSO (Flotating production, storage and offloading) facility
