Equipment
MDL Beefs Up Its Pipelay Tensioner Portfolio
Maritime Developments is set to add a new pipelay tensioner to its offshore service fleet – according to the company, the largest road-transportable system of its kind on the rental market. The MDL TTS-4/375 will be capable of 150-tonne pull force and 1500-tonne nominal squeeze. It features a 5.5m t
Aker Solutions Nets Troll and Askeladd Subsea Deals from Statoil
Aker Solutions has secured contracts from Statoil to provide subsea production systems and services for the Troll Phase 3 and Askeladd natural-gas developments offshore Norway. The company will deliver a subsea production system consisting of two manifolds and nine trees for the Troll development in
Aker Solutions bags Troll and Askeladd subsea awards
Statoil has awarded EPC contracts for the delivery of subsea production systems and services for the Troll Phase 3 project in the North Sea and the Askeladd project in the Barents Sea, respectively, to Aker Solutions.
UK subsea company gets cash injection
Enpro Subsea has secured investment from EV Private Equity (EV) to grow its production optimization business and further develop the range of production optimization and intervention technologies.
Premier orders feasibility study for decommissioning ops
OPT has signed an agreement with Premier Oil to study the feasibility of using the PB3 PowerBuoy for decom ops in the North Sea.
European Commission Clears Rescue Aid for Uljanik
The European Commission has found Croatian plans to grant Uljanik shipyard a State guarantee for a €96 million loan in line with EU State aid rules. The measure will allow the company to meet urgent liquidity needs while preparing a restructuring plan, whilst competition distortions are limited, the
ASV C-Worker 7 Supports Subsea 7 in Mediterranean Pipelay Ops
Subsea 7 has recently deployed ASV Global’s C-Worker 7 class autonomous surface vessel to support a pipelay operation off the coast of Egypt. Fitted with a survey suite comprising a multibeam echosounder and side scan sonar, the C-Worker 7 carried out touchdown monitoring in support of the Seven Ant
Enpro Subsea Gets EV Private Equity Boost
Enpro Subsea has secured investment from EV Private Equity (EV) to grow its production optimisation business into new international markets and further develop the range of production optimisation and intervention technologies. The Aberdeen-headquartered subsea company enters 2018 with projects curr
Bakker Sliedrecht Retrofits Pelagia’s Winch Drive System
Bakker Sliedrecht has completed a retrofit of an obsolete deep-sea winch drive system for the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research’s (NIOZ) vessel Pelagia. NIOZ decided to improve the reliability of the deep-sea winch drive system before embarking on a research expedition. To improve the reli
Imenco Bags Hornsea Project One Corrosion Protection Deal
Imenco Corrosion Technology has been awarded a contract to deliver equipment for corrosion protection (cathodic protection) of the offshore wind farm – Hornsea Project One off the Yorkshire coast in UK. The contract has been awarded by Ørsted Wind Power – the world’s largest developer and operator o
DeepOcean Wins Nord Stream 2 Ploughing Works
DeepOcean has been awarded a contract for performing ploughing operations on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea. The Nord Stream 2 Project concerns the construction of an offshore natural gas transmission system comprising of two 1,220 km pipelines from the Russian Baltic Sea to the German
N-Seatec Secures New Order
N-Seatec, the Netherlands-based technical solutions provider, has received an order for the design and delivery of a large electronics box (EPOD). This EPOD will be used on a subsea template and is the interface between all subsea sensors and topside, the company explained. Design of the stainless s
Alpha Process Controls targets FSRU market with new tech
Alpha Process Controls, part of the Knorr-Bremse Group-owned GT Group, has expanded into the floating storage and regasification units (FSRU) market with its emergency release collar (ERC) couplings.
OSIL Develops ROV/AUV Mounted Sediment Corer
UK-based Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) have released a new sediment corer designed to be mounted to the skids of ROVs or AUVs. The system allows sediment samples to be collected during routine ROV operations and can be chained together to allow multiple core assemblies to be installed as