PALFINGER Marine’s development department has made the leap into the champions’ league of offshore crane systems with the design of the first PALFINGER “Heavy Duty Foldable” Marine crane for one of the world’s state-of-the-art research ships. PALFINGER Marine- und Beteiligungs-GmbH (PMB) is tapping
Nexans, worldwide expert in the cable industry, has been awarded a contract by Subsea 7*, for the design, engineering and manufacture of a total length of 143km of static subsea electro-hydraulic control umbilicals for the Laggan-Tormore gas field development, 125km West of the Shetland Islands in t
International oilfield services company Expro announces today it has been awarded a well testing contract in The Netherlands worth around $8million. Total E&P Nederland B.V. has awarded Expro a three-year well testing contract for operations in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The contract has two
Subsea 7 S.A. announced today the award of a SURF contract valued at approximately $75 million from ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS, acting as Technical Service Provider on behalf of the operator Gassco, in the German Sector of the North Sea. This contract is for the engineering, procurement and insta
The Spanish-based subsea services company ACSM, has boosted the top end of its ROV fleet with a Saab Seaeye Cougar. This comes as ACSM builds an ROV fleet that can offer a full range of ROV services to the subsea market, alongside their core business of providing ROV personnel and services to custom
Knowledge of water depth (bathymetry) is essential to many marine activities, such as coastal and offshore engineering, environment protection, conservation and civil security. Historically, organisations have relied on paper and digital navigational charts for limited available bathymetric informat
AVEVA one of the world’s leading providers of engineering design and information management solutions to the plant, power and marine industries, announced that STX OSV AS has signed an agreement to purchase the full AVEVA Marine solution suite. This deployment will provide STX OSV AS with a powerful
Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, MSP, was given a tour of pipeline engineering specialist STATS Group, as the company revealed 2011 turnover would exceed £17.5 million ($28.2 million). Mr Salmond was invited to visit STATS’ headquarters in Kintore, near Aberdeen, in recognition of his suppor
For Ship Equip 2011 has started off with a bang as the total number of installed SEVSAT systems passed 900. Add to that a record order backlog of more than 230 SEVSATS and it is easy to see that the future for Ship Equip looks bright. “We have anticipated this for a while” says CEO […]
Crest Subsea has chosen Orange Business Services for the communication infrastructure of its diving support vessels. With this contract, Orange Business Services is responsible for integrating and operating a VSAT satellite communication system specially developed for marine communications. Crest Su
The new Imenco Shark Range will be launching at exhibitions in Europe, North America and Asia in spring 2011. First out is the Subsea UK in Aberdeen February 9-10th. All of Imenco Subsea Cameras have been reviewed and optimized and as a tribute to the different sharks around the world they have been
Work is nearing completion on a six figure pioneering underwater tool which is to be exhibited at next month’s Subsea 2011 event in Aberdeen. After five years of development and investment of £500,000, Ecosse Subsea Systems’ SCAR specialist trenching plough is generating considerable interest from a
Cape Industrial Services Ltd has awarded EnerMech a three year contract for the provision of plant and equipment support. The contract, worth an estimated £4.5 million (approximatelyUSD $7.1 million) , covers the rental and supply of power generation and blasting, tooling, lifting and rigging equipm
Leading international oilfield services company Expro announces today the introduction of a new Power Relief Valve (PRV) system which reduces the man hours and rig down-time historically associated with operating and maintaining traditional mud pump relief valves and systems. Known as the PRV MAX, t
