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  • UK: Contract Assigned for BT’s Biggest Subsea Engineering Project

    24 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    BT Group, UK-based communications services company, has awarded three firms a £26.9 million (circa USD 44.1 million) contract for an ambitious subsea cabling project which will help deliver fast, fibre broadband to the Highlands and Islands. The selected companies are: Chelmsford-based Global Marine Systems that will conduct detailed marine route surveys and supply the cables; […]

  • Odfjell Drilling, WJM in offshore rigs engineering co-op

    16 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Exploration & Production

    Odfjell Drilling has announced the signing of a cooperation agreement with William Jacob Management (WJM). Under the agreement, the companies will mutually deliver engineering services of offshore drilling facilities to the global energy market. The services will include conceptual and front end engineering and design (FEED) studies, project planning, procurement, commissioning / startup, construction management and maintenance. […]

  • SAL Heavy Lift brings in senior project engineer to Singapore

    4 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    SAL Heavy Lift Singapore Pte Ltd has brought in Alexander Poetz, a senior project engineer and naval architect from its Hamburg headquarters, to its Asia/Australasia base in Singapore. “Alex’s appointment to SAL Heavy Lift Singapore is an evolutionary step,” said Justin Archard, managing director of SAL Heavy Lift across those regions. “As SAL becomes more […]

  • Wood Group wins offshore engineering work from Pemex

    11 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Wood Group has been awarded a three-year offshore engineering blanket order by PEMEX Procurement International for field development in Mexico’s Gulf of Mexico waters. According to Wood Group’s press release, the agreement, valued at up to $28 million, encompasses deepwater and complex shallow water concept and basic engineering, and owner engineer services. Work will be […]

  • Engine Room Fire Disables Italian Ferry off Bari

    13 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    An Italian ferry carrying 253 passengers and crew en route to the Albanian port of Durres had to return to the port of Bari Tuesday night, after a fire erupted in its engine room shortly after leaving the Italian port, the Italian daily ANSA reports. The crew aboard the passenger RoRo ferry AF Francesca was ready to deploy […]

  • Olga Maersk Suffers Engine Room Fire, Crew Safe

    1 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out in the engine room on board Maersk’s Panamax containership Olga Maersk.

  • Knutsen Orders MAN Engines for Two LNG Carrier Newbuilds

    19 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Norway-based Knutsen OAS Shipping has ordered four MAN B&W 5G70ME-GI engines with EGR systems for its two 180,000 cbm LNG tanker newbuildings. Upon delivery in 2020, the vessels will transport cargoes worldwide for two unnamed Spanish utility companies. “These orders are notable in that they are the 6th and 7th such carriers bound for service […]

  • Atkins Gets Three Honours at Ground Engineering Awards (UK)

    13 May 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Atkins’ expertise in geotechnical engineering has been cemented at the prestigious 2011 Ground Engineering Awards as the consultancy was recognised in three award categories. The first honour went to Benoit Latapie, who was named Young Geotechnical Engineer of the Year. Benoit, 27, joined Atkins fresh from university in 2007 and has been involved in a […]

  • Rolls-Royce’s Deck Machinery, Propulsion and Engines for New OCV

    11 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Rolls-Royce has won a £19m contract with the Norwegian shipbuilding group Vard to deliver deck machinery, propulsion and engines to a new offshore construction and anchor handling vessel (OCV) for the Norwegian owner REM Supply. The vessel will be designed by Vard. The new vessel is developed for underwater construction work and anchor handling operations […]

  • Cat Marine to Supply Engines for Stena Line’s New RoPaxes

    2 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    Swedish ferry operator Stena Line has selected Hamburg-based marine engine builder Caterpillar Marine to supply engines for its four 3100 LM RoPax ferries.  Each ferry will be equipped with two MaK™ 12 M 43 C propulsion engines. In addition to the engines and required gear boxes, Caterpillar will supply four controllable pitch propellers. “The propellers have the […]

  • Baleària Orders Spain’s First Pure-Gas Marine Engine

    20 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    Rolls-Royce has signed a collaboration agreement with Spanish energy company Gas Natural Fenosa to develop and install a pure-gas Bergen engine aboard the Baleària-operated ferry Abel Matutes. The contract gives Rolls-Royce its first reference for a pure-gas engine installation on a European-flagged ferry operating outside of Norwegian waters. The 29,670 tonne ROPAX ferry, delivered in […]

  • Yamal LNG Icebreaker First to Test Wärtsilä 31 Engines

    9 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Finnish engineering company Wärtsilä has received the first order for its recently introduced Wärtsilä 31 engines which will power a Yamal LNG icebreaker currently under construction at Russia’s  PJSC Vyborg Shipyard. The new generation icebreaker Aker ARC 124 will feature three 8-cylinder Wärtsilä 31 engines. The installation will also include Wärtsilä’s online monitoring of the engines. Wärtsilä says […]

  • Caterpillar Performs First Dual Fuel Engine Retrofit in Hull

    1 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Caterpillar Marine has completed the commercial marine industry’s first dual fuel engine retrofit conversion in hull  onboard the Coral Anthelia, an Anthony Veder LNG carrier vessel. The MaK M 43 C diesel engine was retrofitted to the 6 cylinder M 46 dual fuel platform, with each cylinder offering 900 kW of rated power. As a result of performing […]

  • GL Certifies Environmental Protection Engineering S.A. for IHM Services

    23 April 2013

    Environmental Protection Engineering S.A.(E.P.E.) has become the first Greek company to obtain certification from classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) as a certified provider of Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM) services. E.P.E. becomes one of only a handful of companies worldwide that are able to offer IHM in compliance with the Hong Kong International Convention for […]

  • Poor Quality Control Main Cause of Diesel Engine Failures

    22 April 2013

      Peter Filcek, Senior Principal Surveyor in the Lloyds Register, Technical Investigation Department, gave his award winning lecture on diesel engine failures to the branch at the National Grid Offices in Warwick. This was the last lecture of the 2012/13 lecture season and it was well attended, including by a number of members of the […]

  • Scania to Showcase V8 EPA Tier 3 Engine at IWS

    26 September 2013

    Scania’s powerful 16-liter V8 EPA Tier 3 engine, intended for propulsion and auxiliary use, will be one of two engines showcased at the International Workboat Show in New Orleans, Louisiana. The engines are build on a long tradition of amazing power packages that share both technology and architecture with Scania’s truck and bus engines. This […]

  • In-Depth Forecast of China Offshore (Marine) Engineering Market, 2013

    30 December 2013

    As for the current industrial layout of the international marine engineering equipment, in terms of the general contracting and design, at present, the large marine engineering companies and design companies from the US, Norway, France, Australia etc., still occupy the leading position. In terms of total construction capability, by virtue of their own advantages in […]

  • Engineering Club Pays Visit to Açu Superport Works (Brazil)

    21 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    Directors of the Engineering Club and the Regional Engineering, Architecture and Agronomy Board for the State of Rio de Janeiro visited the Industrial Complex of Açu Superport on Tuesday (13), which is being built in São João da Barra (RJ). Consisting of 13 engineers, the group saw the works’ progress, up close and could see […]

  • Wartsila Secures First Orders for Its New X62 Engine

    17 July 2013

    Wartsila, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has received its first two orders, a total of seven engines, for the Wartsila X62 2-stroke low speed engine. The Wartsila X62 is a midsize engine tailor made for Panamax Bulk Carriers, Aframax or Long Range 2 (LR2) Tankers and Container feeders. It is part of […]

  • UK: Rolls-Royce to Deliver Engines for LNG Powered Tugs

    12 January 2012
    Business & Finance

      Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has signed a contract to deliver highly efficient engines and propulsion systems for the world’s first Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) powered tugs. The two vessels have been ordered by Norwegian company Buksér og Berging AS and will enter service in late 2013 for Statoil, the international energy company, […]

  • Maersk Miami had an engine room fire off India

    2 April 2010

    Maersk Line has temporary lost its container carrier Maersk Miami, which had its engine room destroyed by fire while on a voyage off the coast of India. En route from Hong Kong to Colombo a fire broke out in the engine room. It was so intense that the crew of 23 was evacuated to two […]

  • Caterpillar Improves Emissions for Cat 3500 Series Marine Engines

    2 April 2010

    As a marine engine manufacturer for more than six decades, Caterpillar has long been a champion of technological innovation. The company has heavily invested in engine development and proprietary technologies to meet exhaust emissions requirements around the world without sacrificing engine performance to continue meeting customer needs.

  • Canada: Scientists and Engineers Inspect Damaged Section of Neptune Network

    15 July 2011

      Scientists and engineers have had their first look at a damaged section of Neptune, the world’s first regional underwater ocean observatory…  (thevanocuversun) [mappress] Source: Vancouversun, July 15, 2011;      

  • Wartsila: More Than 2000 Gas Engines Sold (Finland)

    12 November 2012

    Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has now sold more than 2000 of its gas fuelled engines, which together have accumulated more than 7 million operational running hours in both land-based and marine applications. These milestone achievements emphasise the leading global position that Wärtsilä has achieved in gas and dual-fuel (DF) engine […]

  • MAN Diesel & Turbo to Supply Engines for Greek LNG Carriers

    5 November 2012
    Project & Tenders

    MAN Diesel & Turbo has won the contract to supply the engines for two Greek LNG carriers. The installation of the MAN 51/60DF dual-fuel engines aboard the newbuildings represents an important first such reference for the company in the segment. The configuration for the new order covers 2 × 9L51/60DF + 2 × 8L51/60DF engines, […]