Specialist back-deck equipment provider, Maritime Developments, has won contracts worth in the region of £7m ($ 10.6 million) and broadened its product portfolio. The company, which supports subsea industry operations worldwide, has secured the first order for its portable overside vertical lay syst
Norway’s NLI Offshore & Marine Products received an order for 6 reels from Nexans for BP Shah Deniz stage 2 DEH batch 2. NLI designs reels especially suited for powercables, deepwater mooring, spiralstrand, flexible riser and umbilicals. NLI also delivered reels for phase 1 in 2013. The product of t
Carried to its final destination on self-propelled motorized wheel transporters (SPMTs) with more than 400 wheels each, the first gate for the new locks in the Pacific side was installed earlier today, marking another important milestone for the Panama Canal Expansion Program. Overall, the Canal exp
Waterking, one of the market leaders in Western Europe in the production of amphibious excavators and accessories, has developed a new amphibious machine, the Transporter. The Transporter is designed for transporting people and equipment through wetlands, deltas and poor load-bearing terrains. The u
Aberdeen based, Hydro Group Plc has boosted its portfolio with state-of-the-art machinery, following a £300,000 investment. The company has installed and commissioned an advanced armouring line at its facility in Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, enabling the company to offer cable products which will improv
Maersk Oil and Heerema Fabrication Group have cut the first steel plate for the Culzean WHP jacket at the official ceremony held at Heerema Vlissingen yard. The jacket for the WHP is the first to be constructed and installed in range of the Culzean field and will be approximately 114 m tall with a f
Tata Communications and Seaborn Networks have announced Tata Communications’ investment for purchase of significant capacity in Seaborn Networks’ cable system between Brazil and US. Genius Wong, Senior Vice President, Global Network Services, Tata Communications says: “Latin America is a key emergin
Advanced Navigation has announced the release of their Subsonus USBL underwater acoustic positioning system. Subsonus is a next generation USBL underwater acoustic positioning system that provides high accuracy position, velocity and heading at depths of up to 1000 metres. The system features calibr
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wrapped up federal navigation channel dredging at Ice Harbor Lock and Dam on January 14. Ice Harbor lock operations have returned to normal and dredging equipment has been removed, including water quality monitoring buoys, and relocated upstream to work areas in the
Osiris Projects latest custom-build vessel Bibby Athena is due to arrive in the UK for the first time in the next few days. Built by French shipbuilders Socarenam, the vessel was constructed to the same high specifications as the company’s successful Semi-SWATH catamaran Bibby Tethra launched in 201
Heerema Fabrication Group and Maersk Oil on Friday, January 16, held a ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Culzean Wellhead Platform jacket. The ceremony, where the first steel plate was cut for the Culzean WHP jacket was held at Heerema Vlissingen yard in the Netherlands. Culzean is a
The naming ceremony of the Freeway, the newest addition to Boskalis’ hopper dredging fleet, was held on Friday, announced Beleef Boskalis on their official facebook page. The Freeway, a medium-sized hopper dredger with a capacity of 4,500 m³, will be taken into service in 2015. More info will follow
Claxton, an Acteon company, is extending its large surface riser inventory to meet operators’ needs as more heavy-duty jack-up rigs enter the North Sea. The company, which already has more than 560 feet of rapid call-off surface riser stock, is adding new joints in the size and pressure required to
SeaBird Exploration Plc has received a letter of intent for the Northern Explorer vessel for a 2D seismic survey in West Africa. The survey size is approximately 1,700 km with an estimated value of $1.3 million. According to the company, the project is expected to start in February 2015 and will hav
