Equipment
Royal IHC Secures Order for Dredging Package
Royal IHC (IHC) has secured a new contract with the Chinese shipyard, Jin Hai Heavy Industrial Group, for the delivery of a dredging installation package for a trailing suction hopper dredger. The package contains major parts of the dredging installation for the 7,000m³ hopper dredger. The agreement
DRAGFLOW Presents HY400 Oil Sand Edition
Sometimes the most common solution is not the best solution. This scenario happened to DRAGFLOW while the company was working on a project in Western Canada. Oil sands tailings extraction is always a challenge, but by carefully working with the client, DRAGFLOW equipment was used as an optimal metho
Companies Team Up on BlueTEC Project
A group of leading offshore companies including Bluewater, Damen and Van Oord have joined together to realize a unique floating tidal energy platform which will be moored near Texel in the Waddenzee and generate clean electricity from the tides. The platform is a trial for remote locations worldwide
Neon Energy hires CGG for seismic survey off Australia
Neon Energy Limited has awarded a contract to CGG Services (CGG) for licensing of 200 km2 of new broadband 3D seismic data over the WA-503-P offshore petroleum exploration permit, off Australia. Block WA-503-P is located offshore Western Australia, within the Dampier Sub-basin, and is operated by Ne
BMT’s Riser Monitoring for Total’s Egina Project
BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, has been selected by Saipem to supply the riser integrity monitoring systems for the Total Egina development located 150km off the coast of Nigeria. Riser integrity monitoring systems measure bending moments and tensile forces in r
Saipem chooses BMT riser monitoring for Egina field
BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, has been selected by Saipem to supply the riser integrity monitoring systems for the Total Egina development located 150km off the coast of Nigeria. Riser integrity monitoring systems measure bending moments and tensile forces in r
BG Group orders Rolls-Royce turbines for Lake Charles LNG
BG Group ordered 12 Rolls-Royce gas turbines for its Lake Charles LNG project.
Hydrex Removes Bow Thruster
Hydrex diver/technician team has performed a removal of a bow thruster unit which needed to be overhauled from a 363-meter container vessel. The removal itself was carried out in Rotterdam. Earlier the team had already prepared the thruster tunnel during the ship’s stop in Le Havre, France. This all
Huisman installs multi-lay tower on ‘Lewek Constellation’
Huisman Equipment has installed a 800mt Multi-lay tower onboard Ezra’s Lewek Constellation. Huisman has reported through the company’s Facebook page that the 3,000mt Huisman Offshore Mast Crane onboard the vessel and the Matador 3 were used to install the tower which is capable to do both Reel lay a
Lewek Constellation Gets Huisman Pipelay Tower
Huisman and Ezra have successfully installed the 800mt Multi-lay tower onboard Ezra’s Lewek Constellation. The 3,000mt Huisman Offshore Mast Crane onboard the vessel and the Matador 3 were used to install the tower which is capable to do both Reel lay and flex lay. The 3,000mt Huisman Offshore Mast
InterMoor Executes Red Hawk Spar Project
InterMoor, an Acteon company, has successfully completed its contract supporting the decommissioning of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s Red Hawk spar in the Gulf of Mexico. The Red Hawk spar is the deepest floating production platform to date to be decommissioned in the Gulf of Mexico. It is also t
SeaBird’s ‘Hawk Explorer’ gets LoI for 2D seismic shoot
SeaBird Exploration’s vessel ‘Hawk Explorer’ has received a letter of intent for a 2D seismic survey in Asia Pacific region. The survey will cover approximately 15,000 km and will have an estimated value of USD 12 million. The project is expected to start in mid-December and will have an estimated d
Offshore Energy 2014 Beats Expectations
The 7th annual Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) held on 28 & 29 October at Amsterdam RAI attracted 13,452 visitors representing 81 nationalities, an increase of 47% compared to last year. OEEC 2014 featured 630 exhibitors on 21,000 sq.m. floor space and 106 speakers in 22 sessions. Off
VBMS Orders Tekmar’s Cable Protection
Tekmar Energy, has been awarded a major contract by VBMS to supply its latest innovation, TekTube, to the prestigious Westermeerwind near-shore wind farm project in the Netherlands. The contract award comes less than three months after the company demonstrated TekTube at the Offshore Renewable Energ