Vodafone New Zealand and Pacific Fibre announced that they have signed a multi-million dollar agreement for the supply of international bandwidth on the new Pacific Fibre cable system. Under the 10-year deal, Vodafone will become Pacific Fibre’s biggest New Zealand customer. Vodafone CEO Russell St
GC Rieber Shipping and the subsea contractor Technocean has agreed on a one year extension of the charter regarding vessel “Polar Prince”. The time-charter with Technocean for the subsea vessel “Polar Prince” has been extended to September 2012. The vessel is engaged in subsea operations related to
Engineering group Monadelphous said today it has secured a new contract from Woodside to provide mechanical commissioning support for its Pluto LNG Plant on the Burrup Peninsula. This contract is expected to be completed in the first half of 2012 and follows an initial major structural, mechanical a
BlueView Technologies, the world leader in compact acoustic imaging and measurement technology, is delivering its 2D Deepwater Imaging Sonar systems for integration onto EMAS’ new work-class ROVs. The 4,000 meter deepwater systems utilize BlueView’s new S2 oil compensated electronics to deliver cris
Grup Servicii Petroliere SA (“GSP”) today announces buying the pipelay vessel Acergy Falcon from Subsea 7. Falcon is a highly versatile DNV classed pipelay vessel, 153 meters long, capable of installing rigid pipelines up to 14 inch diameter and also flexible flowlines and umbilicals. GSP expects to
Miclyn Express Offshore announced the purchase of three new Offshore Support Vessels. A Seismic Support Vessel has been purchased against a 3 year firm contract in Indonesia commencing in August 2011 and including 5 x 1 year extension options. Two newly built Multi Purpose Offshore Terminal Tugs wil
DOF Subsea Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of DOF ASA has secured multiple contracts awards in Asia and Australia over the last couple of weeks with a total contract value of about USD 47 million. The new build DSV Skandi Singapore and the CSV Skandi Hercules will be employed under these contracts. Steve
Fluor Corporation announced that it has been awarded a contract by Chevron Neftegaz–one of three project managers engaged by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium–for its recently announced expansion project. Fluor will provide project services for the marine terminal and supervisory control and data syst
Serimax has been awarded the welding works for Total’s CLOV SURF project offshore Angola. This project, to be carried out in 2012 onboard Subsea 7’s new flagship vessel, the Borealis, involves welding of approximately 5500 welds of 10″ and 12″ pipes, at water depths between 1000 and 1400 meters. A l
Iraq has awarded a $471.7 million contract for an oil export facility expansion and sub-sea pipeline to Italian group Saipem , Iraqi oil… (reuters) [mappress] Source: reuters, August 17, 2011;
DOF Subsea announces that it has been awarded, in joint venture with Technip, its second flexible pipelay contract by Petrobras. The second ever pipelay vessel built in Brazil, Skandi Niterói has been awarded a four and half year charter and service contract. The vessel will be used for flexible pip
BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, the leading international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, has been contracted by Petrobras America Inc., a subsidiary of Petrobras, to provide support maintenance and repair for the Cascade and Chinook
Kodiak Kenai Cable Company, LLC (KKCC), a subsidiary of Old Harbor Native Corporation, has deployed Infinera’s Submarine Solution for its optical network upgrade spanning approximately 1,000 km throughout the state of Alaska. KKCC chose Infinera for the ease of use, speed of deployment and cutting e
Shell today welcomes the announcement of the awarding of the front-end engineering design (FEED) contract associated with the Arrow LNG Project in Queensland, Australia. Arrow Energy, jointly owned by PetroChina and Royal Dutch Shell, will use Shell’s proprietary LNG technology. The engineering desi
