The 80 foot long fishing vessel Eyak ran aground and sank off Calligan Island near Sitka, Alaska. The incident happened on Monday, approximately 13 miles south of Sitka Harbor. The Coast Guard Sector Juneau personnel responded to a distress call from a crewmember aboard the Eyak stating they had run
Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd, an Acteon company, has achieved 1,000 consecutive days without a lost-time incident. Aquatic’s president, Chris Brooks, said, “I am proud to announce that, on Sunday, 14 December 2014, Aquatic reached the health and safety milestone of 1,000 days without a los
Aker Solutions will provide engineering, procurement and management assistance services for five years at the Statoil-operated Johan Sverdrup development in the Norwegian North Sea. The EPMA work, valued at NOK 4.5 billion, is part of a 10-year framework accord announced in December 2013 and comes a
Hughes Sub Surface Engineering (SSE) Have received another safety award for their work on the world’s second largest wind farm – Gwynt y Môr. Colin Christian of RWE presented the award to Managing Director Ian Hughes at the O&M Base in Mostyn. After Ian Hughes accepted the award, he commented: “Hugh
Unique Maritime Group (UMG) has established the first Hyperbaric Reception Facility (HRF) in the Middle East thus raising the safety level for all divers currently operating in this area to a new level. The purpose built system by Unique Hydra, a division of UMG, will be installed at UMG’s facility
Halliburton’s income from continuing operations for the fourth quarter of 2014 was $1.0 billion, or $1.19 per diluted share, excluding restructuring charges of $90 million, after-tax, or $0.11 per diluted share, and Baker Hughes acquisition-related costs of $19 million, after-tax, or $0.02 per dilut
Osiris has become a contractor member with the International Marine Contractors Association’s (IMCA) diving division. Improving performance in the marine contracting industry is a core purpose of IMCA. Through a rigorously audited approach to membership requirements across a range of operational div
Statoil has awarded a contract to Kværner Verdal for delivery of the riser platform jacket for the Johan Sverdrup field. Scheduled for delivery in the summer of 2017, the jacket’s contract value is close to NOK 2.0 billion. The contract is an execution of parts of the letter of intent which Statoil
Van Oord’s new DP2 cable layer Nexus got its cable carousel, fabricated by IHC Engineering Business, and a SMST’s 170 mton knuckle boom crane on January 19, 2015 at the BOW Terminal in the Nederlands. The huge cable carousel has a capacity of more than 5,000 tons and an offshore crane will enable it
In what is a first in the North Sea, J+S Ltd, part of the Cohort Group, have created an engineering solution to terminate complete with pigtails onto an existing umbilical. The solution required replacement of a single 3-phase connector with separate phase connections to each core. As most HV connec
The installation of three additional T1 turbines at Den Oever pilot project is scheduled for next week, according to Tocardo. The final preparations and assembly process is being undertaken on the quay side in Den Oever, in close proximity to the project site. If the weather permits, three T1 turbin
Swedish defence and security company Saab is teaming up with Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Group to explore future opportunities in the international submarine market. The companies have signed an exclusive teaming agreement to work together in pursuit of the potential Walrus-class submarine rep
ABPmer was contracted by Cathie Associates Ltd to assess sediment mobility along the export and infield cable routes of two sub-projects within the Hornsea offshore wind farm zone. To help Cathie Associates Ltd establish the required cable burial depths, ABPmer reviewed detailed survey data to asses
While the world will need to develop multiple energy resources to meet the energy demand, oil and gas will continue to play a significant role and deep water is a crucial part of the mix. Shell believeS innovation holds the key to successfully unlocking oil and gas from deep water safely and respons
