Huisman, a specialist in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions, secured a contract from COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard for the delivery of four customized 400mt Rope Luffing Knuckle Boom Cranes and two 100mt Knuckle Boom Cranes onboard four new subsea support vessels (SSVs) for Maersk Supply Service. The
From 15 to 17 December 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway carried out an audit of the jacket fabrication for Gina Krog. The Gina Krog jacket, destined for Statoil’s Gina Krog field development in the North Sea, is under construction at the Heerema yard in Vlissingen, The Netherlands.
DEME’s Dredging International has started the land reclamation works of the Phase II project on the Maldives island Hulhumalé. The project will add another 240 ha of new land to the island. The works include borrowing offshore sand and pumping it ashore. The required volume, around 6 million m³ of s
OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger company, supplied the subsea production and processing systems for Chevron’s Jack and St. Malo fields. Jack and St. Malo fields, located in Gulf of Mexico, achieved first oil last month. The fields are located within 25 miles (40 km) of each other and are approx
The Zamakona Yards in Pasajes, Spain has finished refitting two vessels, VOS Hades and VOS Hera, owned by Vroon Offshore Services UK and has launched a video detailing the work carried out on the vessels. According to Zamakona Yards, the conversion required a major upgrade of the VOS H-Class to enab
The UK-based specialist in the underwater technologies, CodaOctupus, has released version 2 of the Vantage software, a visualization software suite for the Dimension 3D sonar specifically targeted at ROV centric applications. The key new features in Version 2 include: – New 3D XYZ Binned Profiler Ou
Defence and security company SAAB has selected Kongsberg Maritime’s hydroacoustic package for installation on two Swedish A19 submarines. The delivery will consist of SA9510S Mine Avoidance and Navigation Sonar for submarines and the leading EM 2040 Dual RX multibeam echosounder. The main purpose of
Subsea products and equipment manufacturer Ennsub has successfully completed the design, manufacture, testing and installation of sealing systems for the Wheatstone Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) platform off the coast of Australia. The company was approached to design two different systems to provide
Subsea products and equipment manufacturer Ennsub has successfully completed the design, manufacture, testing and installation of bespoke sealing systems for the Wheatstone Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) platform off the coast of Australia. The company was approached by a tier-one marine contractor to
Power Jacks is set to launch a pioneering suite of bespoke subsea electro-mechanical actuators and gearboxes that, according to the company, offers a major step change for the oil & gas industry. Power Jacks’ integrated U-Series range of screw jacks and bevel gearboxes is believed to be the first of
Motion Software, the Aberdeen-based hardware, software and tagging specialist for the oil and gas industry, has announced the availability of a new smartphone for use in hazardous areas in the offshore market. The new Smart-E 01, which is suitable for use in Zone 1 ATEX-compliant areas, is designed
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, is already preparing for the 2015 construction season. In 2015, the Cleveland and Oswego harbor breakwaters will be repaired using dolos that are currently being constructed. A dolos is a concrete block in a complex geometric shape used in great nu
InterMoor has successfully completed a mooring and foundation installation campaign for bpTT’s Juniper gas project offshore Trinidad and Tobago. This is the largest foundation installation campaign offshore Trinidad and Tobago to date. InterMoor provided engineering and design services to identify t
DRAGFLOW has delivered a specifically designed machine to one of the contractors in the oil and gas industry, in order to remove sand from seabed and allow the oil pipes’ maintenance. DRAGFLOW attached, by a steel structure, 2 Hydraulic Pumps, HY85, to a shell, that was designed and created, to cove
