Equipment
JDR Lands Dudgeon OWF Cabling Deal
JDR has won a new contract with VBMS for the Statoil/Statkraft Dudgeon offshore wind farm. Dudgeon, off the UK’s Norfolk coast will utilise over 95 kilometres of JDR’s copper core inter-array cable and a range of cable accessories. The design and manufacture will take place at JDR’s UK bases in Camb
IMCA to Host Subsea Fibre & Hybrid Rope Workshop
The International Marine Contractors Association will be holding a subsea fibre & hybrid rope seminar in Amsterdam on Wednesday 29 October, which will enable attendees to fully understand, and become involved with the discussion on, what is required by the subsea construction industry. This includes
VIDEO: Royal IHC Introduces Easydredge 2700
Royal IHC is constructing the first vessel in its range of competitively priced standard trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHD). It has started to build the Easydredge™ 2700 for stock in response to the increasing global demand for TSHDs with an extremely short delivery time. The new vessel will be
BW Offshore hires Orange Business for VSAT services
BW Offshore, a Norway-based provider of floating production services to the oil and gas industry, has signed a 5-year, $12 million contract with Orange Business Services for an end-to-end satellite communication solution for its fleet of highly-specialized oil and gas production vessels. With a flee
Normandie 3 Project Nears Completion
Jersey Electricity has informed that its 10-year project to install a third interconnector to France and adjoining land cables is now almost complete. After a long and complex planning process, this year has seen the safe and successful installation of the 32km, 100MW subsea cable from Armanville to
Kier Nabs Important Waterways Contract (UK)
Kier has agreed a new £25m per annum contract with the Canal & River Trust to carry out important engineering and construction works on the nation’s 200-year-old canal network. The National Engineering & Construction Contract (NECC) will initially run for six years, with options to extend up to a ma
Saacke supplies gas combustion units for two LNG tankers
SAACKE Marine Systems said it will supply an integrated system consisting of a gas combustion unit (GCU), with a capacity of 3.5 tons per hour, and an SSB-LCG burner for gases with fluctuating heat values for two LNG tankers to be built by Imabari Shipbuilding of Japan. All the GCU components were d
Thailand: Dredging to Solve Khao Ta Reservoir Problems
The Irrigation Department and Prachuap Khirikhan Province have united to resolve sewage problems in Khao Ta Reservoir, following a Royal Initiative Project, by dredging the ground and increasing the amount of oxygen dissolved in the water for improved quality in the future. The Irrigation Department
QED Naval Recruits New Engineer
QED Naval, a provider of consultancy services to the marine renewable energy sector and technical support to the Subhub Platform, has welcomed a new member of staff into the ranks. Aris Zavvos who has recently joined has a Sustainable Energy Systems Master degree and a PhD in Electrical Engineering
Egypt: Huge Turnout Expected for Suez Canal Certificates
Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Hisham Ramez announced on Sunday issuance of investment certificates for the New Suez Canal Project. Ramez said that Cabinet’s economic group has agreed on issuing investment certificates of the New Suez Canal project and that the issue was raised to Presi
Rosneft, ExxonMobil start 2D seismic studies in Laptev Sea
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Outlook 2014 preliminary projections
Rosneft, ExxonMobil Begin Laptev Sea Survey
Rosneft and ExxonMobil have started 2D seismic exploration at the Anisinsko-Novosibirsky and Ust-Oleneksky license blocks in the Laptev Sea. 2D seismic exploration work plans to acquire up to 6 thousand linear km, and will last until the end of October. Alongside geophysical research a license wide
Picture of the Day: New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway Dredging
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its contractor are restoring marsh on Ring Island near Stone Harbor, N.J. as part of a demonstration project. USACE and its contractor are dredging the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway and beneficially using the material to restore marsh land and critical ecologi
Kongsberg Maritime Launches microPAP Acoustic Positioning System
Kongsberg Maritime has expanded its extensive acoustic positioning product portfolio, which includes the established HiPAP system, with the launch of μPAP (microPAP), a new compact and portable acoustic positioning system for operation from a surface vessel to track ROVs, tow fish, divers and any ot