C-Kore Systems has appointed Mats Ekstrøm to represent C-Kore as sales manager – Scandinavia. Ekstrøm has over 30 years of experience in the offshore oil & gas sector, starting his career with Sutec as service manager and then working for Dolphin AS as technical manager. The past 20 years Ekstrøm wo
Subsea services company Seanic Ocean Systems, a Centurion company, has moved its UK division into new premises in the ABZ Business Park in Dyce, Aberdeen, following a positive stream of business and sustained growth. In the last 12 months, the company has seen a 26% increase in utilisation of its de
Construction of DEME’s 2,300m³ new trailing suction hopper dredger has officially kicked off with a steel cutting ceremony at Royal IHC’s Batam shipyard in Indonesia. The compact hopper design ensures high maneuverability and optimized dredging works, said DEME. Built to the requirements of classifi
Coretrax, the independent wellbore clean-up and abandonment specialist, said it has received a substantial investment from private equity firm Buckthorn Partners to accelerate its international growth plans. The Aberdeen headquartered company, which supports global well construction, completion and
London-based independent oil & gas company Chrysaor is looking to continue its shopping spree as Reuters on Thursday said the company was looking to buy Chevron’s North Sea fields.
Waterking, a Dutch manufacturer of amphibious equipment, said in its latest announcement that they successfully delivered a dredging set for a ministry of agriculture in South America earlier this week. According to the release, the equipment is purchased for the dredging operations on the drainage
Oceanographic equipment manufacturer Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) has supplied 3 Marine Snow Catchers to a Norwegian institute for use in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica on a 5-month research cruise. Marine Snow Catchers are large volume water samplers with separable top and bottom se
The Ocean Energy Scale-up Alliance (OESA) coordinated by the Dutch Marine Energy Centre from the Netherlands has been awarded to implement an innovative Pilot Accelerator Programme. In this programme, organisations work together to support the accelerated deployment of ocean energy pilots in the Nor
France has engaged the environmental expertise of Jan De Nul Group to clean up the oil-polluted beaches along the Mediterranean Sea. This week, Envisan, the environmental subsidiary of the dredging and construction company, signed a contract with the French company Le Floch Dépollution for cleaning
Sif Holding has received a production contract from Dredging International for the 58 monopiles and the primary steel of the transition pieces for SeaMade offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Ostend, Belgium. The transition pieces will be manufactured in joint venture with Smulders in Hoboke
Survey specialist EGS said it has just completed two geotechnical campaigns for international offshore wind farm developers in Taiwan. EGS mobilized a DP2 vessel with a purpose-built 40 tons SWL heave compensated deployment system over the centerline moonpool for a 200kN seabed CPT unit. The geotech
Subsea services group Acteon has acquired Houston-based corrosion specialist Deepwater Corrosion Services. According to Acteon, the addition of Deepwater’s expertise and portfolio should strengthen its integrity management abilities of critical subsea infrastructure throughout the life of a field. D
Horizon Geosciences’ vessel the MV Horizon Geobay has completed Inch Cape’s 2018 offshore site investigation campaign. The geophysical and geotechnical surveys were undertaken on the 150km2 proposed site, 15 kilometers off the Angus coast. Surveys were also carried out along the export cable corrido
Subsea excavation specialist Rotech Subsea has appointed Anthony Bews as Europe business development manager. In his new role Bews will focus on the continued growth of Rotech’s Oil & Gas and Decommissioning business in Europe, building on the track record in the renewables sector. Bews has joined R
