The steel cutting ceremony for the Nautilus Minerals’ production support vessel occurred last Friday, September 25, 2015 at the shipyard of Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding. The vessel is to be used by Nautilus and its PNG partner, Eda Kopa (Solwara) Limited, as the base for its seafloor operations planned
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) has conducted the first survey of production of external concrete coating for subsea pipelines using spray-up techniques. The external concrete weight coating (CWC) is used to provide negative buoyancy, mechanical protection and submerged stability of steel
The U.S. Coast Guard responded to a report of a cargo ship with 12 crew members aboard reportedly sinking, 51 nautical miles northwest of Haiti, Thursday night. The 212-foot cargo ship reportedly started sinking earlier in the evening due to the severe weather conditions from Hurricane Joaquin. Coas
2H Offshore, an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract by Chevron to manage a production riser weld qualification testing programme. The aim of the development of 20,000 psi technology is to qualify the equipment required to develop future offshore fields with design pressures above 15,000 psi
UK geotechnical companies have restructured as Fugro GeoServices Ltd. The renaming completes the integration of key UK specialists – Fugro Seacore, Fugro Engineering Services, EM Drilling, Fugro Loadtest, Fugro Instrumentation & Monitoring and Fugro Aperio. Fugro GeoServices Ltd employs close to 600
Technip’s wholly-owned subsidiaries Technip Umbilicals and Angoflex have been awarded a contract by ENI to supply umbilicals to the Block 15/06 East Hub Development offshore Angola. The field is located approximately 350 kilometers north of Luanda, at water depths of 450-600 meters. The contract cov
Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract from Murphy Sabah Oil Co. to deliver the subsea production system for the Rotan deepwater natural gas development offshore Malaysia. The delivery includes hardware for four subsea wells, a hub manifold, in-line tees, a connection system and production contr
Hydrex mobilized a team of diver/technicians to perform repairs on a 225-meter drillship after its transit flap came loose and caused damage in the aft bulkhead and a leak in the ballast tank situated behind the moonpool hull. The vessel was located in Trinidad but was about to start a contract in G
During a week long NATO exercise the Royal Navy vessel has helped find and recover six historic mines. Faslane based, HMS Grimsby joined fellow members of NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 (SNMCMG1) for Exercise Northern Coast 15. For a week the minehunter worked with vessels from Belgium, the Nethe
Norway’s offshore union, Industri Energi, has warned Technip Singapore PTE about a boycott starting October 23 because the company, reportedly, refuses to conclude a collective agreement. Namely, Industri Energi’s association chairman Leif Sande and area manager Ommund Stokka delivered today (Septem
Simon Møkster Shipping’s multi purpose support vessel (MPSV), Stril Server, has won a new contract with Van Oord Offshore for diving services for its Gamba Sealine Replacement Project offshore Gabon. Van Oord was contracted by Shell Gabon, in November last year, for the replacement of a dual 10 km l
Cape Sharp Tidal, a joint venture between Emera and OpenHydro, is taking final steps towards the deployment of two 2 MW tidal turbines in the Bay of Fundy, Canada. Cape Sharp Tidal plans to install and grid-connect a 4 MW tidal array at FORCE site, off Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. During one of the four
UTEC Survey, an Acteon company, has provided a positioning solution for the installation of a monopod liquid natural gas platform and 30km 10” LNG pipeline located in Alaska’s Cook Inlet. A total of 24 field personnel were mobilized and engaged with Coda Octopus for use of their Echoscope technology
Searcher Seismic has completed the acquisition of the Silver-Eye 3D Seismic Survey in the Hammerfest Basin, Norwegian Barents Sea. The Silver-Eye 3D Seismic Survey comprises 3,000 km2 covering the north and south flanks in the Hammerfest Basin. The survey covers the areas close to the Snøhvit and Go
