Due to the success of the VENUS Coastal Network, originally built and deployed in 2006 and 2007, VENUS at Ocean Networks Canada with the support of the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Leading Edge Fund has entered into a contract with OceanWorks International to effectively double the capacity of
PanGeo Subsea Inc. (PanGeo) and Global Geophysical Services Inc, two leading geophysical service and technology providers, announced that they have entered into an agreement for the development and commercialization of the Acoustic Zoom® product line. Acoustic Zoom® uses steered beams of acoustic en
Sonardyne International has taken its first order for a Dynamic Positioning Inertial Navigation System (DP-INS). Vantage Drilling’s new 12,000 feet-rated drillship, Dragonquest, is set become the first deep water drilling unit in the world to be equipped with the new system when it begins operations
Statoil, together with its Luva field partners, has selected a Spar platform to develop the field. As a gas transport solution has also been decided, a major step has now been taken towards deep-water production in the Norwegian Sea. The Luva field, which is a deep-water pioneer in the Norwegian Sea
ProSep Inc., a Montreal based company, dedicated to providing process solutions to the oil and gas industry, today announced it was awarded a contract valued at approximately $13 million for the design and supply of a seawater treatment and water injection system for installation on a floating produ
The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited is using the largest Dantorque™ actuator ever produced by Emerson to help expand its gas distribution network on the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. The actuator, which is 2.4 meters tall and 1.64 meters in diameter, will be used to is
Hatenboer-Water BV has recently secured contracts from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) for the supply of Demitec® watermakers for four new drillships. In Okpo Bay in Korea, Guy Heijnen, Manager, Sales & Water Quality at Hatenboer-Water, signed contracts for the projects H3612, 13, 14
Kobelco Construction Machinery America introduced the SK210 full-size, high-performance excavator to the Kobelco Mark 9 excavator series. These new Tier 4 models include the SK260, SK295, SK350 and SK485 excavators. The versatile SK210 Mark 9 delivers a 10-percent improvement in both fuel efficiency
Karnafuly joint venture consortium ltd. delivered three high quality Cutter Suction Dredgers 450 to Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA). On Wednesday the 18th of January the vessels were inaugurated by the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina. The vessels were built in close c
Costing £130m and weighing 360 tonnes, the NATO Submarine Rescue System is one of the most sophisticated pieces of equipment in the world. For four days, 70 experts from three countries put it through its paces. The NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS) is stored and maintained in a giant purpose-buil
Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) was recognized with the Blue Heron Award from the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association (LMOGA) during the association’s annual meeting in New Orleans. Created in 1993, the award recognizes exceptional environmental stewardship in association with oil
McDermott International, Inc. announced today that its Australian subsidiary has received and signed a letter of award for the Ichthys Gas-condensate Field Development subsea umbilical, riser, flowline (SURF) project by INPEX. The contract value is in the order of magnitude of US$2 billion and is th
To avoid a repetition of the events that occurred as a result of the Kura River bursting its banks and in accordance with a presidential decree, the Ministry for Emergency Situations has delivered to Baku suction dredgers CSD-500 manufactured by Damen (Netherlands), as well as tugs, supply vessels a
EvoLogics GmbH, a leading provider of innovative solutions for underwater communication, upgrades its S2C/2/ADCP multiple access system to Version 2.0, adding important features that optimize data retrieval from multiple ADCP instruments. In fall 2010 EvoLogics GmbH came up with a space saving and e
