Aberdeen-based Ecosse Subsea Systems announced that it has scored a hat-trick of finalist’s positions in two awards schemes. The company is a finalist in the Wood Group Award for Innovation category of the annual Grampian Awards for Business Enterprise. The winner of the accolade will be announced a
A small group of Aptos High School students is considered the best in the world when it comes to engineering a robot that can stop a deepwat… (santacruzsentinel) [mappress] Source: santacruzsentinel, June 23 , 2011;
Airborne has announced the choice for the sea harbour of IJmuiden, the Netherlands, as location for its new design and manufacturing plant for Airborne Composite Tubulars. A brand new facility will be build, directly next to the quay of the harbour to allow for directly offloading to offshore sea ve
On June 2, 2011, Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW) has been awarded a major order by TenneT TSO GmbH (TenneT), a German-based transmission network operator, for the supply and installation of 2 x 13 kilometers of 155 kV AC submarine transmission cables. The cable will provide the network connect
AGR Field Operations has been awarded a major contract to perform a subsea inspection of offshore facilities in the Bass Strait of Australia. This significant scope of work involves an ROV based general visual inspection and a cathodic protection survey as well as installation work. The facilities t
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, recently won a $24 million order to supply electrical power and propulsion systems for two next generation ‘Ramform’ vessels, capable of three-dimensional (3D) seismic data acquisition for sea bottom resource exploration. The ships will be cons
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, recently won a $24 million order to supply electrical power and propulsion systems for two next generation ‘Ramform’ vessels, capable of three-dimensional (3D) seismic data acquisition for sea bottom resource exploration. The ships will be cons
Dril-Quip, Inc. announced that Dril-Quip Asia Pacific PTE Ltd, its wholly owned subsidiary located in Singapore, has been awarded a contract valued at approximately US$39 million by Murphy Sabah Oil Company, Ltd. to supply drilling and production equipment for the Kikeh Dry Tree Spar Platform which
Dril-Quip, Inc. today announced that Dril-Quip Asia Pacific PTE Ltd, its wholly owned subsidiary located in Singapore, has been awarded a contract valued at approximately US$39 million by Murphy Sabah Oil Company, Ltd. to supply drilling and production equipment for the Kikeh Dry Tree Spar Platform
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
Forum Energy Technologies (FET) announced the sale of two of its high performance Perry Triton® XLX ROV systems to global seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services company, Subsea 7. The systems will be mobilized on-board the Grant Candies construction vessel at the end of June, in su
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership (OL) announced Teledyne Webb Research, of East Falmouth, Mass., will provide open ocean gliders supporting the Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) component of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). WHOI, an
