10000 results found for 'Decommissioning'

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  • Seatricity’s Wave Hub future hangs in the balance

    21 February 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Wave energy company Seatricity is considering the future of its testing program at Cornwall’s Wave Hub which has stalled due to delays with an ERDF grant that was supposed to support this year’s Oceanus 2 trials.

  • ROVOP on duty for Prysmian

    8 August 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Following a recent new contract award, Aberdeen-headquartered subsea specialist ROVOP has been supporting survey and trenching operations for Italian cabling giant Prysmian Group. According to ROVOP’s social media update, the company is deploying its remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to support Prysmian’s operations onboard the construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Pacific. The vessel is fixed with the […]

  • Bureau Veritas Sets Standards for Marine Renewable Energy

    28 May 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Bureau Veritas has published a set of guidelines, NI 603, intended to help the development of current and tidal turbines. The guidelines are backed by a separate guide to certification for marine renewable energy devices including tidal turbines, wave energy converters and ocean thermal energy conversion. Philippe Donche-Gay, Executive Vice-President and Head of the Marine […]

  • Bureau Veritas: New guide to boost current and tidal turbines

    28 May 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Bureau Veritas has published a new guide, NI 603 Current and Tidal Turbines, intended to help the development of current and tidal turbines. The guidelines are backed by a separate guide to certification for marine renewable energy devices including tidal turbines, wave energy converters and ocean thermal energy conversion. Bureau Veritas aims to set standards […]

  • N-KOM, GIS Seal USD 110Mln Offshore Deal

    24 July 2014

    Gulf Drilling International Limited (GDI), a subsidiary of Gulf International Services (GIS),  has awarded two contracts worth USD 110 million to Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N- KOM), a joint venture shipyard between Nakilat and Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M).   The first contract is for the construction of a self-propelled and self-elevating liftboat, […]

  • SMRU Makes New Appointments

    27 May 2015

    SMRU Consulting Europe has promoted Dr Carol Sparling to Technical Director and Dr Cormac Booth to Director of Business Development. with 15 years’ experience as a marine mammal scientist and 7 years of experience in applied science consultancy working with both industry and government clients, Sparling’s new role will be to lead the Europe team forward. She […]

  • Royal IHC’s Hi-Traq Scoops BEEA Prize

    14 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Royal IHC’s Hi-Traq, trenching machine and tooling platform, has won the award for ‘Mechanical Engineering Product of the Year’ at the British Engineering Excellence Awards (BEEA) in London last Thursday. Hi-Traq is the first 4-tracked subsea vehicle with fully independent suspension and steering. This gives unrivalled maneuverability and ability to cope with the full range of shallow-water terrain. […]

  • ExxonMobil takes Simon Møkster’s supply vessel out of layup

    17 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian shipping company Simon Møkster Shipping will take one of its vessels out of layup as a result of a new contract with ExxonMobil offshore Norway.  The shipping company’s offshore supply vessel Stril Mermaid will be taken out of layup for a three-month firm contract, which also includes options, according to Simon Møkster’s statement on […]

  • North Sea platform reaches recycling yard

    2 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Rules & Regulation

    After 30 years in the North Sea, Equinor’s Veslefrikk B platform has now reached a yard where it will be recycled.

  • DeepOcean eyes offshore renewables growth with new acquisition

    7 April 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    DeepOcean has acquired the Norwegian engineering and technology company Installit and its subsidiaries in order to accelerate offshore renewables growth. Founded in 2000, Installit provides project management and engineering services within subsea cable installation and repair, including HV cables, subsea installation and decommissioning, and marine operations for the marine and renewables industries. The Oslo-headquartered company […]

  • Damen Stan Tug 1606 Delivered

    10 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Scrabster Harbour Trust (UK) has taken delivery of a new harbour tug/workboat, a Damen Stan Tug 1606. The vessel, named Highlanders, will replace their current workboat which was built in 1976. The new tug will undertake pilotage, towing, general harbour and maintenance duties. Scrabster Harbour in northern Scotland is attracting much larger vessels and cargoes […]

  • Sparrows lands five-year deal with ‘major operator’

    10 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Sparrows Group has secured a new contract with a ‘major oil and gas operator’ to deliver crane services for its assets in North America.

  • GRAHAM to upgrade Port of Dundee

    14 December 2020
    Ports & Logistics

    Construction specialist GRAHAM has secured a contract to construct a new wharf and make land upgrades in the Port of Dundee to service the offshore renewable energy and oil & gas sectors. The work consists of the construction of a new wharf and the preparation and upgrade of over 15ha of land. The port’s existing […]

  • Canada Steamship Lines sells self-unloader for green recycling in Turkey

    13 August 2020
    Environment, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Canadian shipping company Canada Steamship Lines has sold the 35,656 dwt self-unloader MV Salarium for demolition in Turkey.

  • Port of Blyth Announces £12 Million Arrangement with Lloyds Bank

    25 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Port of Blyth has announced a new £12 million banking facility with Lloyds Bank that will enable the next phase in its rapid expansion. Major investments will now be made in relation to terminal infrastructure and the construction of new warehousing, as well as strengthening quays and installing new cranes. Chief Executive of the […]

  • OOS Orders New Crane Vessel from CMIH

    11 December 2017

    OOS International has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China Merchants Industry Holdings (CMIH) for the design and construction of the new Semi-Submersible Crane Vessel (SSCV), the OOS Zeelandia. OOS has revealed the OOS Zeelandia during the EU-China Blue Industry Cooperation Forum on Friday, and confirmed it has signed the MoU with CMIH back […]

  • Jumbo Inks LoI with CMIH for Construction of New Vessel

    8 December 2017
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Jumbo has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with China Merchants Industry Holdings (CMIH) for the detailed engineering and construction of a new DP2 heavy lift crane vessel (HLCV). The new HLCV, with a length of 185 meters and a beam of 36 meters, has been designed together with Ulstein Design and Solutions. The vessel will be […]

  • Wood Group Nets BP Contract

    16 February 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Wood Group has secured a global agreement with BP for the provision of conceptual engineering services, pre-front end engineering design (pre-FEED) and FEED engineering services. The agreement has a contractual duration of three years with an option to extend for two additional years. Robin Watson, Wood Group’s chief executive, said: “We are very proud of our […]

  • Fugro’s Newly Added ROV Support Vessel Ready for Work

    18 January 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Fugro is set to start its first project using new multipurpose ROV support vessel, Edda Sun,with mobilisation for the IRM contract planned for March 2019. With a recently announced two-year charter of the Edda Sun, Fugro has enhanced its IRM, construction and decommissioning support services in Europe. The Edda Sun, built in 2009, can accommodate up to 72 personnel and is equipped with a Sikorsky S‑92‑compatible helideck and a 70T/11m heave compensated knuckle boom […]

  • Lloyd’s Register to class LNG heavy lift crane vessel

    28 August 2015

    Lloyd’s Register said it has won a contract to class what it claims to be the world’s largest heavy lift crane vessel (NSCV) for the Netherlands-based Heerema Group. The semi-submersible vessel will be constructed at the newly opened Sembcorp ‘Mega yard’ in Singapore. The dual-fuel LNG and MGO vessel is due to be delivered in […]

  • Aker BP posts profit in 4Q. Lifts capex guidance

    2 February 2018

    Norwegian oil company Aker BP reported a rise in both income and in production for the fourth quarter of 2017.

  • Maersk to spruce up jack-up rig with new accommodation block

    5 August 2016
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Energomontaż-Północ Gdynia (EPG) has built an accommodation block for Maersk Drilling’s jack-up rig Maersk Guardian in Poland.  EPG said on Thursday that, after a two-day loading process onto a special pontoon, the module sailed out from the Gdynia port in Poland. The 1,140-ton heavy accommodation module for the Maersk Guardian will accommodate around 140 employees working […]

  • Nexen cans FPSO Aoka Mizu deal. Bluewater back to black

    5 May 2016

    FPSO operator Bluewater has received a contract cancellation from Nexen for the FPSO Aoka Mizu producing from the Ettrick field in the North Sea.  According to Bluewater, production from the field will cease on June 1, 2016 and decommissioning of the vessel will start from that date. Redeployment opportunities for the FPSO Aoka Mizu are actively […]

  • UK’s Rolls Royce to Power Largest Ever Construction Vessel

    19 June 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    The Pieter Schelte features a unique design concept with a displacement at full load of nearly 900,000 tonnes. It is capable of lifting 48,000 tonnes and the pipelay tension capacity will be 2,000 tonnes, doubling the capacity of the world’s current largest pipelay vessel, Allseas’ Solitaire.

  • Statoil gets green light to plug Huldra wells with ‘West Epsilon’

    14 March 2016
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has authorized the oil and gas company Statoil to use North Atlantic Drilling’s (NADL) jack-up rig West Epsilon to permanently plug wells at Huldra 30/2-A, in the North Sea. The field is located north of Oseberg in production licence 051, offshore Norway. According to the PSA, Statoil will be […]