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  • MAIB Report Shows UK Marine Accidents in Decline

    18 July 2014

    In 2013, a total of 1,332 accidents (Casualties and Incidents) was reported to the UK’s Marine Accident Investigations Branch (MAIB), with 1, 459 vessels involved, MAIB’s 2013 Accidents Report reads.   The investigations commenced and the reports published by the MAIB during 2013 have been diverse and have covered all sectors of the maritime industry.  Some 70 […]

  • UK’s Mermaid Subsea wins ‘largest contract to date’

    7 March 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Mermaid Subsea Services UK has secured a multi-well contract to be carried out on behalf of a North Sea operator, said to represent the company’s largest contract to date. The two-year contract includes the decommissioning of 22 wells and will see the creation of 12 new roles at Mermaid’s Aberdeen headquarters. According to the UK […]

  • UK: Mott MacDonald Nabs Port of Southampton Contract

    22 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Mott MacDonald has been appointed by contractor VolkerStevin as design engineer for the deepening of two berths located in the Western Docks at the Port of Southampton, UK. Together with other port upgrades, the work for Associated British Ports will increase the terminal’s container throughput capacity by enabling future generation container vessels to access the […]

  • UK decommissioning firm sets sight on CCUS projects

    17 October 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Human Capital, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vision

    UK well decommissioning company Well-Safe Solutions is targeting carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) projects with the appointment of the company’s first energy transition manager. Well-Safe announced on 17 October that it is adding CCUS as well as geothermal project capabilities to its offering with the appointment of Alexa Duncan as the energy transition manager. […]

  • Technip to Install Subsea Systems at Juliet Project (UK)

    8 January 2013

    Technip was awarded by GDF SUEZ E&P UK Limited an engineering, procurement, installation and construction contract for the Juliet project, located 40 kilometers East of the Humberside estuary, at a water depth of approximately 20 to 60 meters. This contract, which is a tie-back to the Pickerill A platform, will cover the installation of a: […]

  • UK OWFs Keep Bladt’s Aalborg Site Busy

    11 April 2017

    The Hornsea Project One offshore substation Z13 arrived at Bladt Industries’ site in Aalborg last week, the company informed via social media, where it also published a photo of the first load out of its share of the Walney Extension transition pieces.

  • UK: Offshore unions set to vote on strike action

    17 March 2015

    Offshore union RMT’s executive has endorsed the call from members to ballot for industrial action, targeting groups of workers in what the union sees as a rolling programme of action over a range of issues including: Ripping up current 2:3 and 2:2 shift patterns and replacing them with a 3:3 pattern Attacks on sick pay, […]

  • SSE Reviews Its Wave and Tidal Projects (UK)

    3 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Following recent media speculation surrounding SSE’s future involvement in marine development projects, the company has confirmed the following: “SSE is currently undertaking a review of its marine (wave and tidal) portfolio and assessing options for the progression of the development projects involved. This process involves engaging with our respective joint venture partners and a number […]

  • SSE Reviews Its Wave and Tidal Projects (UK)

    3 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Following recent media speculation surrounding SSE’s future involvement in marine development projects, the company has confirmed the following: “SSE is currently undertaking a review of its marine (wave and tidal) portfolio and assessing options for the progression of the development projects involved. This process involves engaging with our respective joint venture partners and a number […]

  • Field Manager Celebrates 10 years at APEM (UK)

    19 December 2011

    APEM’s Field Manager, Peter Dennis, recently celebrated his 10th year at APEM. Peter joined the company when it was still run from a single office at the Manchester Science Park. Having started as a Field Scientist, Peter was promoted to Senior Field Scientist, and subsequently APEM’s, Field Manager. As the, Field manager, he is the […]

  • Ensco Promotes CFO to Executive Vice President (UK)

    11 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Ensco plc (NYSE: ESV) announced that Chief Financial Officer James W. Swent III has been promoted to Executive Vice President effective immediately with expanded responsibilities. Mr. Swent has been Senior Vice President – Chief Financial Officer since 2003. “Jay has played a critical role in our transformation from a premier jackup drilling company to a […]

  • UK: PPL Invites Bids for Port of Heysham Dredging

    20 January 2012

    Peel Ports Limited has invited bids for the dredging of Port of Heysham’s North Quay, Lancashire. Recent surveys of the harbour indicated that levels of silt adjacent to the North Quay have built up and compromise vessel access and that dredging is required to improve the berth availability. Dredging services required for a quantity (to […]

  • UK: Navy Helps Reduce Somali Pirate Activity

    22 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    Following his posting as Commander of the UK Counter-Piracy Task Group, Captain Gerry Northwood, Royal Navy, has written in The Times newspaper about how concerted efforts are helping reduce attacks on merchant vessels. Captain Northwood writes: “Eleven pirates on board with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades. All comms on ship are down. Crew safe in […]

  • Faroe Maritime Technic Appoints New Distributor in UK

    24 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    As part of Faroe Maritime Technic’s expansion plans the Company announced the appointment of Oil Conveyer Limited (OCL) as partner and distributor for the UK and Ireland. OCL will be working alongside its sister company Pumpseal, a long established and experienced supplier of pumps, motors and oil water separator products into the marine industry. Based […]

  • Extension of UK’s National HVDC Centre officially opens

    27 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    The extension of SSEN Transmission’s simulation, testing and training centre for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems in Cumbernauld has officially opened. Established in 2017, the National HVDC Centre is the first facility of its kind in the UK and uses innovative technology to test the use of HVDC on the GB transmission network which will […]

  • UK: WFSV ‘Iceni Defiant’ to Focus on London Event

    30 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    On Friday 27th January, following successful sea trials in Southampton Water, the latest South Boats 17m LS WFSV ‘Iceni Defiant’ was handed over to Iceni Marine Services Ltd, based in Great Yarmouth. Prior to the vessel commencing work on the Great Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm on 1st February, ‘Iceni Defiant’ will be sailed up the […]

  • ScottishPower Going After More UK Offshore Wind

    8 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    ScottishPower is actively pursuing future offshore wind projects in England and Scotland as part of its GBP 6 billion investment plan, to ensure one third of the UK’s electricity can be produced by wind by 2030. The energy company said it plans to engage with The Crown Estate and The Crown Estate Scotland on seabed […]

  • Fluor Extends Hydrosphere’s Greater Gabbard Contract (UK)

    1 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Hydrosphere UK Ltd’s contract for the rental of six Cardinal buoys to mark Britain’s largest wind farm, Greater Gabbard, has been extended by Fluor Limited. Fluor – the principal contractor for the Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm project – originally approached Hydrosphere in 2009 for the supply of temporary navigation lights to mark the site in its […]

  • Former Chancellor to Speak at an Annual Energy Dinner (UK)

    25 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    Former Chancellor Alistair Darling will be the keynote speaker, alongside European Commissioner for Energy Gunther Oettinger and chief executive officer of Maersk Oil, Jakob Thomasen, at an annual energy dinner to be held in Aberdeen this week. The Rt. Hon Alistair Darling MP, who led the Exchequer from 2007 to 2010 under the last Labour […]

  • 3sun Expands with RRC Controls Services Acquisition, UK

    27 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    3sun Group, a specialist provider of products and services to the global energy industry, has announced the acquisition of RRC Controls Services Ltd, based in Gourdon Aberdeenshire. The deal, worth a six figure sum, is part of 3sun Group’s plans to expand its footprint in Aberdeen and enhance its service offering to the energy industry. […]

  • Remote-Control Boat Speeds Reservoir Surveys (UK)

    7 December 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    As the regulatory requirement to assess reservoirs and lakes expands to include smaller bodies of water, HR Wallingford has developed a remote control boat which is able to collect hydrometric data quickly, simply, safely and accurately. The ARC-Boat employs a sophisticated SonTek (a Xylem company) M9 Acoustic Doppler Profiler (ADP®) which is a 5-beam depth […]

  • UK: BMT Appoints New Head of Naval Engineering

    11 August 2011
    Business & Finance

    BMT Defence Services Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, the leading international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, has announced the promotion of Tim Hardy to the role of Head of Naval Engineering. Tim will lead a team of more than 60 people comprising some of the industry’s top mechanical, electrical and marine […]

  • UK Flagged MV Asian Glory Released by Pirates

    16 June 2010

    On 11 June 2010, a ransom drop was made to the pirate group holding the merchant vessel MV Asian Glory at anchor in the vicinity of Garacad on the eastern coast of Somalia. The UK flagged MV Asian Glory, with deadweight of 13.363 metric tonnes, was hijacked late in the afternoon on the 1 January […]

  • Subsea UK, TechWorks to collaborate on advanced subsea tech solutions

    13 April 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    Subsea UK and TechWorks have partnered up on a strategy to create new opportunities for the advancement of UK underwater technology, increase exports and create new jobs.

  • UK: Official Welcomes Foreign Investment in London Gateway

    21 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The Lord Mayor of the City of London, Fiona Woolf, welcomed the foreign direct investment by Dubai’s DP World into London Gateway, while visiting the recently opened deep-sea container port and Europe’s largest logistics park. During her visit, the Lord Mayor, climbed one of the world’s largest quay cranes to have an elevated view of […]