Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading ship power systems integrator, has signed a contract to deliver a ship power system for a 38,000 tonnage semi-submersible heavy-lift vessel for Chinese customer Zhejiang Share-ever Business Co., Ltd. Wärtsilä’s solution was selected for its proven reliability,
RBG, the leading provider of fabric maintenance and construction support to the global energy industry, will deliver its innovative electrical rope access services as part of a new three-year contract with Chevron North Sea. Working on the Alba, Captain and Erskine platforms located in the UKCS, RBG
FMC Technologies signed in the beginning of March a contract with Statoil ASA for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment to support the Marulk field. The award is a call-off from FMC’s existing frame agreement with Statoil. The Marulk field is located in the Norwegian Sea, approxi
Next week will see a major milestone reached by IHC Engineering Business (EB), when their largest project to date, a 2,000t capacity J-Lay… [mappress] Source: bymnews, May 26, 2010;
Ruukki has signed an agreement with Aker Solutions of Norway to supply 24 suction anchors in September 2010 from its Kalajoki unit in Finland. Ruukki has supplied also offshore steels for the same project. The suction anchors and offshore steel plates will be used in the Goliat field in the Barents
IHC Parts & Services, part of IHC Merwede, and Wärtsilä Netherlands (WNL) have teamed up to provide life-cycle support for ships with Bolnes and Smit Bolnes engines. The companies will combine their industry knowledge, expertise and strength to maintain these dredging and other vessels worldwide in
Invensys Operations Management, a global provider of technology, software solutions and consulting services to the process and manufacturing… [mappress] Source: technologynewsroom, May 18, 2010
Pro-Dive Marine Services in Canada has taken delivery of a Cougar-XT ROV from Saab Seaeye. David Squires, president of Newfoundland-based Pro-Dive, says the Cougar-XT will bring an important inspection and electric work ROV resource to Canada’s East Coast oil and gas sectors. It makes an important a
Samsung Heavy Industries is going all-out to further sharpen its competitive edge in high-end ships, a lucrative field which few shipbuilder… [mappress] Source: koreatimes, May 12 , 2010;
Total has signed an agreement with ConocoPhillips to acquire a 24.5% interest in the Arafura Sea and the Amborip VI blocks in the Arafura Sea, offshore Indonesia. With this agreement, ConocoPhillips, operator of those two blocks, will now hold a 75.5% working interest in the Arafura Sea block. In th
Tideland Signal is one of the suppliers involved in the Perdido Development, Royal Dutch Shell’s record breaking new hub located 200 miles off the coast of Texas. Located in an isolated, ultra-deep sector of the Gulf of Mexico, Perdido, which in April started producing oil and natural gas, has broke
Baker Hughes has installed Centrilift XP™ enhanced run life electrical submersible pumping (ESP) systems in six vertical subsea boosting stations located on the seafloor at Shell’s Parque das Conchas (BC-10) Field in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. The ESP systems at BC-10 – located approximately
Chevron has ordered two 160,000cbm membrane-type LNG carriers to be built at Samsung Heavy Industries… [mappress] Source: ship-technology, May 6 , 2010;
Two Dutch organisations – Deltares, an expertise centre for delta technology located in Delft and Rotterdam-based dredging company Van Oord – have together come up with an innovative concept to combat the oil spill threatening the US’s southern coast. Their proposals consist of a set of radical meas
