Motive Offshore, headquartered in Boyndie, Aberdeenshire, has implemented a new safety and lean production scheme called 6S, to improve efficiency and safety in the work environment. The firm, which was established in 2010 by James Gregg, Dave Acton and Bob Smit, will utilise the Japanese developed
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (January 12 – January 18). GE Oil & Gas and McDermott International have launched io oil & gas consulting, a new independent venture to transform the development of front-end solutions for offshore fie
DEME: Dredging Simulator, New Office Building The Flemish Minister-President Geert Bourgeois has laid the foundation stone of the new DEME office building in Zwijndrecht. He also put into operation the brand-new high-tech dredging simulator. VIDEO: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mud Dredger The biggest scien
Alcatel-Lucent and the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) consortium have successfully completed a field trial on the existing ACE system, which connects France to the west coast of Africa, based on 300 gigabit-per-second (Gbit/s) and 400 Gbit/s technology. They achieved a breakthrough transmission of 12.
Oilfield services major, Schlumberger, has decided to reduce its overall headcount, in response to lower commodity pricing and anticipated lower exploration and production spending in 2015. The company, which employs approximately 120,000 people in more than 85 countries, recorded a $296 million cha
Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, has signed an agreement to invest in the construction of the first direct subsea fiber optic cable between New York, USA, and Sấo Paulo, Brazil, on behalf of its clients. Partners Group is providing all of the equity financing for the pr
Infinera and Telstra conducted successful demonstration of submarine super-channel technology, which is expected to increase the capacity of a single fiber by 50%. The test, which was conducted across 2,200 kilometers of Segment F of the Reach North Asia Loop (RNAL), included Polarization Multiplexe
Fugro, a Dutch company offering survey services to the international offshore oil and gas industry, has informed that an additional vessel has been commissioned to carry out underwater search activities for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Fugro Supporter, a multi-purpose offshore survey vess
Bechtel said that it has completed the Australia Pacific LNG project’s heavy lift program with the setting of the final Train 2 module.
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won a contract from Fujian Southeast Shipyard in China to supply deck equipment packages for two 78m anchor-handling/offshore support vessels under construction for Singapore-based Adhart Shipping Pte Ltd. The order was booked into fourth quarter 2014 order intake. T
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed 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 S
Severn Subsea Technologies (SST) has developed Zone 0 rated, tool detection sensor technology to reduce the risk of damage to the riser assembly during drilling and intervention operations, as the tool string is recovered to the surface. The Tool Detection Alarm (TDA) offers a safer method of locati
Welltec®, a Danish based oil and gas service provider, has announced that its Welltec® Annular Barrier has been successfully run as a standalone, primary well barrier element for Statoil in the North Sea. The company says that the 9 5/8″ ISO14310 V0 WAB® was deployed, expanded and subsequently verif
Today, the Flemish Minister-President Geert Bourgeois laid the foundation stone of the new DEME office building in Zwijndrecht. He also put into operation the brand-new high-tech dredging simulator. The new office building is going to be built on the premises of DEME’s head office, located on Scheld
