Grouting or bolting of the connection between monopile and transition piece belong to the past with the introduction of Dutch engineering company KCI’s Double Slip Joint. KCI is completely convinced about this after completing intensive research. The company introduced their new concept at the EWEA
Deutsche Windtechnik Offshore and Consulting is now responsible for the majority of equipment services as well as technical management for Nordergründe offshore wind farm. The wind farm, for which construction work and operation is scheduled to start in 2016, will be equipped with 18 Senvion® 6.2 wi
Vard Holdings Limited has secured a contract for the design and construction of one Diving Support and Construction Vessel for Singapore-based Kreuz Subsea group. The vessel will be of VARD 3 17 design, with a total length of 91.2 meters and a beam of 21.5 meters, and has been developed especially f
Statoil has awarded Lloyd’s Register Energy’s consulting business a contract to perform a risk and emergency preparedness analysis for the Hywind Scotland pilot park project. The Norwegian international energy company plans to build the first floating wind farm off the Scottish coast. The park will
Towage company Svitzer said it has established a joint venture with SVR Marine Services in an effort to secure a footprint in Malaysia.
Towage company Svitzer said it has established a joint venture with SVR Marine Services in an effort to secure a footprint in Malaysia.
The federal government must reveal the extent of offshore fracking occurring in the Gulf of Mexico under a legal settlement filed last week in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The agreement settles a Center for Biological Diversity lawsuit that challenged the government’s failure to disclose
The Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan met his counterparts from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, UAE, Angola and Venezuela on the margins of the OPEC international seminar.
The Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan met his counterparts from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, UAE, Angola and Venezuela on the margins of the OPEC international seminar.
A group of five pirates boarded a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship bound for scrapping on Sunday off Colon Port. The 1986-built ship VFM Alita, owned by Venezuela Feeder Maritime, was anchored west of the entrance to the breakwater in the province of Colon when it was boarded. The ship has been in lay-
A Filipino crewman was airlifted from the infamous Panama-flagged coal carrier Sage Sagittarius, also known as the “death ship”, Australia’s Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service said. As informed, a helicopter medevaced the crewman from the ship this morning off Newcastle. The crewman believed to be in
The Port of Hong Kong handled 68.4 million tonnes of cargo in the first quarter of 2015, a 1% decrease compared to the same period a year earlier, according to the statistics released by the city’s Census & Statistics Department. Within this total, inward port cargo decreased 3% to 41.9 million tonn
A New Orleans jury has acquitted David Rainey, the highest ranking executive from BP charged in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, from charges that he lied to the FBI. The acquittal followed Monday’s dismissal of an obstruction of Congress charge against Rainey by the judge. The indictment aga
EMAS AMC announced that its flagship subsea construction vessel, Lewek Constellation, has established an industry record for pipelay in the U.S Gulf of Mexico. The Lewek Constellation has set an industry pipelay record in the GOM in 7,368 feet (2,246 metres) of water during her sea trials. In prepar
