10000 results found for 'Kraken'

10000 results found for 'Kraken'
Order results by

A list of search results

  • FES Sets Up New Production Plant

    21 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    North East offshore specialist Flexible Engineered Solutions (FES) is creating 20 new jobs after opening a new manufacturing facility. Ashington-based FES has delivered a boost to its 50-strong workforce after investing in a new 25,000 sqft manufacturing facility in Cramlington, which will also become a training base to bring new skilled engineers into the sector. […]

  • AUS: Wood Initiates Next Phase of SEAR JIP

    15 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    Wood has launched the next phase of a collaborative industry effort to develop a better understanding of the reliability of subsea equipment for use offshore Australia. The company is leading the Subsea Equipment Australian Reliability Joint Industry Project (SEAR JIP); an initiative supported by a group of operators including Chevron Australia, ConocoPhillips, Quadrant and Woodside. […]

  • ORE Catapult Takes Delivery of Subsea Cables Test Rig from Osbit

    10 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has taken delivery of cable bend fatigue test rig that should support the development and improve the performance and reliability of subsea cables. Northumberland-based Osbit designed and built the 15-tonne cable fatigue test rig to ORE Catapult’s specifications. The test rig is capable of testing floating wind and tidal […]

  • EMEC, Wave Hub Support Development of META Project

    19 July 2018
    Project & Tenders

    The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) and Wave Hub have signed an agreement with Marine Energy Wales to provide strategic advice to develop the Marine Energy Test Area (META) project which is underway in Pembrokeshire. META will see the creation of a series of pre-consented, non-grid connected sites suitable for a range of component, sub […]

  • NPD Deep Sea Minerals Search Identifies New Targets

    11 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said it has identified a large area of sulphide minerals following a three-week data acquisition expedition on the Mohn’s ridge in the western part of the Norwegian Sea. The deposits could include important industrial metals such as copper, zinc, cobalt, nickel, vanadium, wolfram and silver. The NPD has been assigned the task […]

  • Boskalis Braces for Weaker Year

    9 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Boskalis has seen a profit drop of 10 per cent in the 2015 and said it expects a ‘substantially lower’ 2016 full-year result, compared to last year’s satisfactory bottom line, despite tough market conditions. The Dutch dredging and marine specialist generated net income of €440 million on revenue of €3.24 billion, versus net income of […]

  • Sonardyne Scout for UNSW Survey Ops

    26 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The University of New South Wales (UNSW), is using underwater positioning technology from Sonardyne Asia in Singapore to support pioneering research into human impact on marine and estuarine habitats. The Scout-Pro Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) system tracks the position of divers whilst they collect sediment samples, underwater video transects and biota. UNSW began survey operations in […]

  • Sentinel Marine expands fleet with new EERV. Creates new jobs

    10 August 2018

    Offshore support vessel operator Sentinel Marine has taken delivery of a new emergency response and rescue vessel.

  • Wood working to better understand subsea equipment reliability for use off Australia

    15 May 2018
    Equipment

    Wood has launched the next phase of a collaborative industry effort to develop a better understanding of the reliability of subsea equipment for use offshore Australia.

  • London P&I Club Warns of Capuccino Effect

    5 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    The London P&I Club has advised its members on precautions to adopt in order to detect the presence of cappuccino bunkers. In the latest issue of its StopLoss Bulletin, the club explains that the cappuccino effect is essentially the frothing or bubbling effect caused by compressed air blown through the delivery hose. The aerated bunkers […]

  • UK: MCS Pampero Joins Maritime Craft Services’ Fleet

    22 November 2012

    A Scottish maritime company has taken delivery of a second Twin Axe Design offshore wind farm support vessel. MCS Pampero, sister vessel to MCS Sirocco which joined the fleet in June, was handed over to Maritime Craft Services in Singapore and will go straight to work in NW Europe from mid-December. They join crew transfer […]

  • Bumi suspends Oyo FPSO over Erin debts

    21 June 2017
    Infrastructure

    Malaysian FPSO provider Bumi Armada has suspended the bareboat charter and operations and maintenance contracts with Erin Energy for the FPSO Armada Perdana operating at the Oyo oil field off Nigeria.  Bumi’s subsidiaries, Armada Oyo Limited (AOL) and Bumi Armada (Singapore), are in charge of the bareboat charter and operations and maintenance contracts on the FPSO Armada […]

  • Sonardyne Opens New Office in Rio das Ostras, Brazil

    27 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Steve Graham, the Deputy Consul-General from the British Embassy in Brazil has officially opened the new premises of offshore technology company Sonardyne Brasil Ltd. in Rio das Ostras. The opening of the new office on Thursday 22nd November coincided with the 20th anniversary of the company first deploying its subsea offshore technology in the region. […]

  • Ship Owners and Unions Raise Concern at Casualty Reporting Failures

    23 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Shipowners and seafarers’ unions have joined forces to express concern at flag states’ failure to submit maritime casualty reports as required under international Conventions. The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), which represents 80% of the world merchant fleet, and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), which represents seafarers’ unions worldwide, have made a joint submission […]

  • MOL Introduces Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP) for Tanker Fleet

    13 January 2011

    Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President: Koichi Muto) today announced that the company has established a Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP) and started its use with the MOL tanker fleet. The SEEMP provides the most efficient vessel operation method (optimum route selection, appropriate maintenance, and so on considering slow steaming, ocean currents, and weather) […]

  • Dryad: Kidnap for Ransom at 10-Year High

    10 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Gulf of Guinea and Southeast Asia have seen a significant increase in kidnapping incidents in 2016, according to data released by UK’s maritime intelligence and operations company Dryad Maritime. The 2016 figures show that 62 people were kidnapped worldwide in comparison to 19 in 2015 and 9 in 2014. While the number of mariners involved is small, […]

  • Two Turkish Workhorses from Robert Allan Ltd.

    29 November 2013

    Besiktas Shipyard in Yalova, Turkey, recently delivered to the Directorate General of Coastal Safety two newbuild tugs, the GARP and SARK. These two rugged little tugs are of the TS 2000 class design from Robert Allan Ltd, Naval Architects of Vancouver Canada. Configured as conventional twin-screw tugs, GARP and SARK are designed to perform ship-assist/ […]

  • Turkey: Besiktas Shipyard Hands Over Two Robert Allan Tugs

    29 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    Besiktas Shipyard in Yalova, Turkey, recently delivered to the Directorate General of Coastal Safety two newbuild tugs, the GARP and SARK. These two rugged little tugs are of the TS 2000 class design from Robert Allan Ltd, Naval Architects of Vancouver Canada. Configured as conventional twin-screw tugs, GARP and SARK are designed to perform ship-assist/ […]

  • Keppel FELS Delivers Newbuild Jackup Rig to Ensco

    23 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    Ensco plc has taken delivery of ENSCO 121, the second of four ultra-premium harsh environment jackup rigs in its ENSCO 120 Series. The rig is contracted to work in the North Sea beginning in the second quarter of 2014 at a day rate of approximately $230,000. Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Dan Rabun commented, […]

  • Counter-Piracy Exercise Held in Seychelles

    16 January 2014

    On Friday 10 January, the Seychelles Coast Guard, Air Force and Police Force, together with the EU Naval Force Somalia – Operation Atalanta and EUCAP Nestor, carried out a counter-piracy exercise in the Seychelles.  The exercise involved the boarding of a suspected pirate skiff that had attacked a local fishing boat. The ‘pirates’ were disarmed […]

  • Crewmembers of Cargo Ship ‘Rich Forest’ Rescued in Pacific

    21 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    Twenty-four crewmembers are safe after abandoning ship approximately 440 miles west of Guam on Monday, December 20. At 8 a.m. Sunday, watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Guam Command Center received report of flooding from the 500-foot cargo ship Rich Forest. The ship, carrying logs enroute to China, experienced flooding in the engine room and […]

  • Wison to Supply Barge-Based Floating LNG FRU for VGS

    21 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    Wison Offshore & Marine announced today the award of a binding agreement with Vessel Gasification Solutions (VGS) of New Jersey, USA, for the supply of the industry’s first barge-based floating LNG regasification unit (FRU) to be installed offshore India. The FRU, which will be owned by VGS, will consist of a newbuild, non-propelled barge equipped […]

  • FSG Splashes ROLLDOCK STAR

    2 September 2013

    Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) launched on August 30 the 151.5 metre long ROLLDOCK STAR, the first of two ships for the Dutch concern RollDock BV. The specialised newbuilding is operationally versatile, multi-functional and designed to carry demanding cargo and heavy project loads, mainly in the offshore sector. ROLLDOCK STAR is up for delivery at the end […]

  • Eighth Megayacht of the Successful Navetta 43 Line Delivered

    8 August 2013

    CRN Navetta 43 “Lady Genyr”, a 43 metres megayacht privately launched on the 29th of April, has been delivered to its Owner. CRN is the Ferretti Group’s Shipyard specialising in the construction and marketing of fully-custom and semi-custom megayachts made of steel, aluminium and composite material, ranging from 40 to 90 metres. Lady Genyr is […]

  • EU Policies Improve Air Quality in Harbors

    21 August 2012

    Sulphur dioxide emissions from shipping have sharply decreased in EU ports thanks to an EU policy which limits sulphur content in fuels for ships at berth or at anchor in ports. Scientists at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre measured key air quality parameters in Mediterranean harbours before and after the entry into force of […]