Scotland’s only council-owned dredger has made its inaugural journey from shipyard to the sea. Moray Council – responsible for the maintenance of six harbors – is the only local authority in Scotland to own its own dredger. The £2.5 million, 250 tonne vessel was floated off at high tide from the Mac
Tullow has reportedly committed to drilling an exploration well offshore Namibia by late March 2017. According to Pancontinental Oil & Gas, Tullow has elected to continue as a partner in the Namibian licence PEL 37, and will drill a well, subject to identifying a drillable prospect. Pancontinental c
Helsinki-based, marine drive train technology specialist, The Switch, on Thursday informed it has received an order for its permanent magnet shaft generator for a 45,000 cbm LNG carrier being built for Saga LNG Shipping.
Materia in conjunction with Aegion has been selected by Shell Offshore to supply pipeline insulation materials for the Appomattox development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The Appomattox development is located 80 miles offshore Louisiana, in approximately 2195 meters of water. The insulation syst
CEE HydroSystems, a hydrographic survey single beam echo sounder manufacturer has entered into a distributor agreement with Swathe Services, a hydrographic survey instrumentation sales and support specialists. The aim of the agreement is to promote the new CEE echo sounder systems for marine and fre
IKM Testing in Aberdeen has been awarded a three year pre-commissioning services frame agreement by Bibby Offshore. The three year contract, with the extension option for a further two years, spans three Diving Support Vessels, one Construction Support Vessel and one ROV Support vessel operating pri
TAS Offshore Berhad’s (TAS) subsidiary, TA Ventures (L) Ltd has received notice of termination of a shipbuilding contract from QMS1 Offshore Services Ltd (QMS1), via email on April 5, 2016. In a filing with Bursa Malaysia on Thursday, the Malaysian shipbuilder informed that the contract between TA V
Xodus Group on Thursday said it has won a design and engineering services framework agreement for the Grain LNG terminal, located on the Isle of Grain, Kent.
Ofgem has launched a tender to enable prospective bidders to compete to own the transmission assets of the 258MW Burbo Bank Extension wind farm in the Bay of Liverpool. The Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO) Tender Round Four (TR4) started on 7 April, Ofgem said. Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind f
Construction of the topsides to be installed at Maersk Oil operated UK North Sea megaproject, Culzean has begun. The steel-cutting ceremony for the first of the three topsides modules took place at the Sembcorp Marine Offshore Platforms (SMOP – formerly known as SMOE) Admiralty Yard in Singapore on
MSC Cruises on Wednesday said it has signed a letter of intent with STX France for the construction of up to four LNG-powered cruise ships.
Huawei Marine has been contracted by Transworld Associates (TWA), a Pakistani Tier 1 internet provider, to upgrade its submarine cable system, TW1. Commissioned in 2006, the 1,300 km TW1 submarine cable system connects Pakistan, United Arab Emirates and Oman. The 100G upgrade will combine submarine
Ramboll has been commissioned to support the Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA) in the environmental monitoring of the installation of a supporting counter-fill for the sunken German WWII submarine U-864. The rediscovery of German WWII submarine U-864 off the Norwegian west coast in 2003 prompte
The Netherlands will start the tendering procedure for the Borssele I and II offshore wind farms on 10 April, following the last month’s adoption of the amendment to the Electricity Act 1998 which allowed further development of offshore wind energy projects in the country. The window for submitting
