Saudi Aramco has acquired Teledyne Offshore Surveyor AUV system. The Gavia AUV system is expected to enhance Saudi Aramco’s agility in meeting high demands for hydrographic survey services through the company’s in-house survey operations. The Gavia system will be utilized predominantly for debris su
Oil behemoth Saudi Aramco is reportedly set to award contracts to increase the security of its offshore oil and gas installation. Reuters on Monday reported, citing unnamed sources, that the oil company has already received bids from the likes of Raytheon, Rheinmettal, and General Dynamics for defen
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (July 17–23, 2017). Boskalis Bags EUR60 Million Norvik Deal Boskalis has been awarded a contract by Ports of Stockholm to construct the quay wall for the new Stockholm Norvik Port in Sweden. Van Oord Wins Dubai
United Arab Emirates-based natural gas company, Dana Gas, has decided to use AGR software for deep water exploration in Egypt. AGR said on Wednesday that the company’s software team signed a software as a service contract with Dana Gas PJSC to supply the latest version of its P1 software. According
Israel’s energy firm Delek has informed it has fulfilled all conditions for the sale of its 9.25% interests in the Tamar and Dalit fields, located in the Mediterranean Sea, offshore Israel. The company recently said it would sell its stake in the fields to the newly established entity called Tamar P
WorleyParsons has been awarded the project management and front end engineering and design (FEED) services for Saudi Aramco’s Marjan oil field development program. The contract is the offshore oil and gas facilities portion and the onshore upstream and downstream pipelines portion of Saudi Aramco’s
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (July 10-16, 2017). Going Against the Flow with Royal IHC’s Plumigator Overflow systems are designed to optimize the efficiency of the dredging process by draining excess water and leaving more weight available fo
Overflow systems are designed to optimize the efficiency of the dredging process by draining excess water and leaving more weight available for the payload, thus limiting the amount of turbulence in the hopper. During the overflow process, the aim is to remove excess water from the hopper, making ro
Caterpillar recently delivered the Cat 6015B OEM Frontless Hydraulic Shovel that is being used for the Ashdod Port Development Project in Israel. The port, located about 40 kilometers south of Tel Aviv, is undergoing a substantial expansion to meet the forecast of a 40 percent increase in cargo traf
The Dutch cable protection specialist Vos Prodect Innovations has secured a contract in Middle East with oil & gas contractor Target Engineering. The contract is for delivery of 2650 meters of cable protection systems (CPS) by Target Engineering, for the protection of subsea sonar cable, project for
The NKT Victoria cable-laying vessel has laid the first HVDC cables in the Moray Firth as part of Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks’ Caithness-Moray transmission project. The vessel completed its first campaign from Noss Head in Caithness to the midpoint of the cable route this week. It has
McDermott has recently celebrated a milestone with the load-out and installation of the first jacket fully fabricated by the company at its recently-opened Dammam fabrication yard in Saudi Arabia. The Safaniya 264 jacket is part of McDermott’s long term agreement II (LTA II) scope of work with Saudi
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (May 29 – June 4, 2017). Steady Performance in 2016 for Jan De Nul, Stable Order Book Jan De Nul Group has just released its 2016 Annual Report, saying that the company achieved steady performance in a highly vola
Gulf Bridge International (GBI) has finalised a loan refinancing deal that should allow the company to explore new business and investment opportunities and to further support its successful transformational journey. Namely, the first privately-owned submarine cable system in the Middle East, has se
