Boskalis has received a Letter of Intent to Award (LOI) a contract for the development of the Port of Duqm in Oman. The contract with a value of approximately EUR 480 million will be awarded by Sezad (Special Economic Zone Authority Duqm) and includes the engineering, design, procurement and constru
The R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC), along with the R.I. Department of Environmental Management Division of Water Resources and the R.I. Natural History Survey have created a new position within DEM’s freshwater wetland monitoring and assessment program. The position will advance we
Singapore-based gas shipping giant BW Group held a naming ceremony for the company’s second floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), the BW Integrity. The naming ceremony was held on January 12 at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. The FSRU will serve as Pakistans’
Repsol Sinopec Resources UK, formerly Talisman Sinopec Energy UK, has exercised options to further extend the charter of Prosafe’s flotel Safe Boreas by a total of 14 days. The firm operational period of the Safe Boreas at Montrose A in the UK sector of the North Sea is now through February 10, 2017
Bristol-based subsea specialist Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has added two new members to its team this January. Perry Symons has joined OMM as chief operating officer. Overseeing OMM international offshore projects, he will also co-ordinate service development at a strategic level. Symons is sa
French LNG-engineer Technip and Houston-based FMC Technologies said that TechnipFMC secured a visa from the French stock market regulator for its prospectus for the listing of shares on Euronext Paris regulated market.
Residents in Clacton and Holland are being urged to attend an exhibition on a new £5 million scheme to stabilize cliffs along their coastline, Tendring District Council informs. The event will take place today at the Kings Cliff Hotel in Holland and officers will be on hand to answer questions as we
Coda Octopus has introduced a new addition to its range of real-time 3D sonar systems. The latest development sees a wide-angle 90° x 40° 240kHz option added to the Echoscope. This new variant of sonar increases the field-of-view and survey area of coverage. The new XD dual frequency model will enab
Dutch offshore access solutions provider Ampelmann has been awarded a contract by SBM Offshore in support of an FPSO maintenance campaign in the Espírito Santo Basin offshore Brazil. Ampelmann said on Monday that the contract entails the provision of an E-type gangway system in January 2017, with a
Infinera, a provider of intelligent transport networks, has released new platforms within its DTN-X family to power cloud scale subsea networks. Infinera introduced the XTS-3300 and XTS-3600 meshponders for subsea networks, and upgraded its DTN-X XTC Series to 12 terabits per second (Tb/s) of non-bl
Taking a look at the world around us, it is clear that technology is making boundless industrial and societal processes more efficient. From online booking tools to lock scheduling systems, today’s ports have a wide range of these technological tools at their fingertips – all with the goal to improv
Readers’ Picks of the Week (January 9 – 13, 2017)
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (January 09– January 15). French oil services provider Technip has acquired stake in the new industrial player in marine renewable energies established by DCNS and Bpifrance, and also supported by BNP
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from January 9 – 15, 2017.
