STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co., a South Korean shipbuilding company has received an order for construction of a drillship for an unknown European client, Yonhap News Agency reported Monday. Under the contract worth US$700 million, the vessel should be completed by the second half of 2015, the compa
WGP Energy Services Ltd (“WESL”) announced the successful completion of the 2D survey completed in the Russian High Arctic on behalf of State Sevmorgeo Company (“SMG”). The works completed in the East Siberian and Laptev Seas were part of a program of works for the Russian State in the delineation o
Last Friday “Vestland Mira”, owned by the shipping company Vestland Offshore, was named in Balestrand in the Norwegian county of Sogn and Fjordane. Only seven minutes after the naming ceremony, the Havyard-designed vessel “Vestland Mira”, went straight into work on a contract in The North Sea. “We h
With the signing of a contract for the newbuild drillship Deepwater Advanced 2 Maersk Drilling adds USD 694 million to its contract backlog. Five out of seven newbuild drilling units have now secured contracts. Maersk Drilling has signed a contract with ConocoPhillips Company a wholly owned subsidia
Since 1992, TOS more than earned her stripes in the maritime sector and is now one of the top 3 maritime human resource providers anno 2012. Twenty years later, both the services package and the world wide network are expanded and form a solid foundation for their new mission ‘Energy & Maritime Solu
In opening a second new office and workshop facility in six months, UTEC has underlined its commitment to both the Mediterranean and African markets by relocating to a purpose built-facility in Naples, Italy. Continued sustained growth in operations, including two large geophysical and geotechnical
Underwater laser scanners have started to become a preferred technology for close range, high precision underwater measurement work. The ability of these sensors to quickly obtain a complete 3D model of the environment has proven to be useful for sub sea pipeline inspection, inland pipe and tunnel i
Lagendijk Equipment revealed the completion of an order from Van Oord for two electric/ hydraulic cranes to be installed on the innovative walking jack-up barge WaveWalker 1. Van Oord is a leading international contractor in dredging, marine engineering, and offshore oil, gas and wind projects. The
Today Joep Athmer, the Director of Van Oord Offshore and Member of Offshore Energy Committee of Recommendation wished a warm welcome to the visitors of the Offshore Energy Conference and Exhibition 2012 on behalf of Navingo. The exhibition is being held in Amsterdam RAI for the second time in a row
Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. reported net income of $14.9 million, or $0.14 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2012 compared with net income of $46.0 million, or $0.43 per diluted share, for the same period in 2011, and net income of $44.6 million, or $0.42 per diluted share, in the s
Fugro offers a new pile inclination monitoring service based on Fugro’s offshore survey product range. A key requirement of pile installation is pile verticality. Traditionally the verticality or inclination was measured by means of pausing the piling and measure the inclination using handheld incli
Ocean Networks Canada will receive funding from the Canadian government to support an ocean technology trade mission developing new collaboration opportunities with counterparts in Brazil, on behalf of the new Ocean Technology Alliance of Canada. “Our government is committed to growing our economy a
Seventy years after it was scuttled off Los Angeles, Calif., government archaeologists have found the wrecked remains of a rare Pacific Coast schooner that was employed in the lumber trade during the early 1900s. Today, Robert Schwemmer, maritime archaeologist for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sa
The OCB subsea infrastructure, including five seafloor nodes which form the existing seafloor observatory portion of the system, was originally designed by OceanWorks International and delivered to Harris Caprock Communications (HCC). The system was deployed in 3000m of water in the Mediterranean Se
