Swan Hunter has completed mobilisation and commissioning of its new modular offshore carousel and associated equipment onboard the ASV Pioneer barge, for client CWind. The new basket carousel, has been mobilised onto the barge in the smallest of four configurations, at 2000Te capacity, but can be ex
Van Oord’s Debris Removal Platform, developed in-house, has won the 2018 IADC Safety Award. By changing the existing technique of manually removing debris to an automated system, the risk of personal injury is reduced. During dredging, debris can fill the trailing draghead of a trailing suction hopp
DeepOcean has opened a new offshore services base at Blyth in the North East of England with aim to increase presence in global cable lay and trenching markets. Offshore Services Base Blyth is purpose built to support the planning, preparation, mobilisation and maintenance of DeepOcean’s subsea tren
French LNG specialist GTT has recently received an approval in principle from classification society Bureau Veritas for the development of its new liquefied natural gas containment system. The system named NO96 Flex is a new evolution of GTT ‘s NO96 range and maintains the main elements of the NO96
Bergen-based Seaproof Solutions, a Balmoral company, has signed a long-term frame agreement with Danish operator Ørsted for the development, design and manufacture of cable protection systems (CPS) to be used on offshore wind farms. The companies will participate in a cooperative process to continuo
SIMEC Atlantis Energy (SAE) has unveiled the design of its new 2.0-megawatt tidal power turbine system, the AR2000, which includes a large single axis turbine. This next generation turbine will be capable of accommodating rotor diameters of between 20 – 24 meters, site dependent, with a cut in speed
The UK-office of Deep Sea Mooring (DSM), a Vryhof company, has strengthened its presence in the offshore energy hub Aberdeen with the opening of a deep water quayside facility. This follows the opening of the UK office in April 2017. The Port of Aberdeen is an economic driver for the whole region an
Autonomous underwater vehicles provider Teledyne Gavia has recently delivered a Sonar Transponder Module (STM) for ASW training to an undisclosed military customer. The STM module made by Scanmatic of Norway and integrated into a Gavia payload module is capable of receiving and re-transmitting sonar
Mech-Tool Engineering (MTE) has won a new contract for the provision of fire and blast solutions to Equinor’s Snorre Expansion Project.
OSIsoft LLC, a manufacturer of application software for real-time data management called the PI System, has announced that DEME will serve as the data sponsor for the Innovation Hackathon at PI World in Barcelona taking place September 24-27, 2018. At the Innovation Hackathon, teams of programmers,
EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH has received an order from the Dutch company Heerema Marine Contractors to manufacture 16 pin piles for the Leviathan project. The Leviathan field is located about 125 km west of Haifa, Israel in the eastern Mediterranean and contains an estimated gas deposit of a
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said it has identified a large area of sulphide minerals following a three-week data acquisition expedition on the Mohn’s ridge in the western part of the Norwegian Sea. The deposits could include important industrial metals such as copper, zinc, cobalt, nickel, v
Oceanteam Solutions has signed a contract with an undisclosed UK energy company for the supply of a barge for the transport of cables from Norway to the Netherlands. The barge will be equipped with a 5300t turntable and auxiliary equipment for the project which is planned to be executed this month.
EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH has received an order from HMC for 16 pin piles for the Leviathan project offshore Israel.
