On Thursday evening, Åge Holmestad of Moelven Limtre AS and Svein Dag Henriksen of Hydra Tidal AS received the innovation award Schweighofer Prize 2011 for their work on laminated timber turbine blades for a floating power station project at Gimsøystraumen in Nordland based on ocean and tidal curren
Mechanical engineering specialist, EnerMech, has been awarded a number of contracts “worth a substantial sum” to provide pipeline pre-commissioning services by Subsea 7. Two awards are for Dutch sector projects where the workscope includes pre-trench flooding, cleaning and gauge pigging, high speed
The Gudrun Jacket will be written into history as the first delivery from Kvaerner, when it is handed over to Statoil on 1 July 2011. “This jacket will be number 35 in the series of jackets delivered from the yard in Verdal. Gudrun was awarded as the first project after the financial crisis, and has
ENI NORGE has chosen technology from AGR Drilling Services for multi-well projects in the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea. The Cutting Transportation System (CTSTM) from AGR will be used on 24 wells drilled by the Norwegian arm of Italian energy company Eni. The system will mainly be deployed on t
ENI NORGE has chosen technology from AGR Drilling Services for multi-well projects in the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea. The Cutting Transportation System (CTSTM) from AGR will be used on 24 wells drilled by the Norwegian arm of Italian energy company Eni. The system will mainly be deployed on t
SeeByte, the global leader in creating smart software technology for unmanned systems, announces that Fugro Survey Pty Ltd (Fugro) has successfully broken the current world record for the longest uninterrupted pipeline inspection using a low-logistics AUV. The SeeTrack AutoTracker software was utili
SAS’ partner from Norway AXTech AS announces the award of a contract for Module Handling / Subsea Winch System. Subsea 7 awarded this contract for design and delivery of a winch system that will be installed in a new vessel currently being fabricated at Ulstein Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway. The vesse
Norske Shell AS is extending its use of AGR’s deep-water excavation technology and expertise on the Ormen Lange field. Originally, a £9m (NOK84m) deal announced in February between the Aberdeen-based Excavation & Trenching arm of AGR Drilling Services and Norske Shell was to last until June 2, 2011.
Norske Shell AS is extending its use of AGR’s deepwater excavation technology and expertise on the Ormen Lange field. Originally, a £9m (NOK84m) deal announced in February between the Aberdeen-based Excavation & Trenching arm of AGR Drilling Services and Norske Shell was to last until June 2, 2011.
Damen Dredging Equipment has delivered 4 cutter suction dredgers to the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources. The Ministry, who already had several Damen dredgers in their fleet, will use the dredgers for maintenance dredging on the rivers and throughout the central plains. The 4 cutter suction dredger
OSD-IMT, the UK arm of Offshore Ship Designers, has been chosen by Samsung and Boskalis-SMIT Engineering to develop the basic design, detailed design and production drawings for a 99 m cable laying vessel. Neil Patterson, managing director of OSD-IMT, says, “This project illustrates perfectly the st
In line with Tritech’s policy of continuous product development the Eclipse Multibeam Sonar system has undergone major software and partial hardware redevelopment, which encompasses the following updates: * The standard depth rating is now 1000m * Eclipse no longer has Profiling/ bathymetry capabili
Kongsberg Maritime’s next generation multibeam echosounder the EM 2040 is now available with the HUGIN 1000 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle – AUV. With improved resolution and depth rating of 6000 metres, this provides a substantial improvement from the EM 2000 used in deep-water HUGIN versions up to
Statoil wants to compress gas on the seabed to boost recovery. Subsea compression was recently selected as the preferred concept for Gullfaks. “Gas compression on the seabed represents an important advance in technology, and once again, Statoil is leading the way for development of new technology. T
