Equipment
Seatools’ Subsea Pressure Compensators for New Dredger
On behalf of its client Bakker Sliedrecht, Seatools has completed the development, manufacturing and testing of two 250-liter subsea pressure compensators, to be applied to 1.7 MW submersible electric motors installed on a new hopper dredger currently constructed by Wenchong Shipyard. The dredger is
Swan Hunter Bags Van Oord Norther Export Cable Storage Deal
Swan Hunter has secured the Norther offshore wind farm export cable storage contract from Van Oord. The transpooling operations to store the cable are planned to start in Q2 2018, the company informed. Approximately 29 km of cable, weighing 3300 metric tons, will be transpooled from a heavy lift ves
EDS Bags Hohe See OWF Cable Termination and Testing Deal
EDS HV Group (EDS), a part of James Fisher and Sons, has received a contract from cable manufacturer Zhongtian Technology Submarine Cable (ZTT) to complete cable termination and testing work at Hohe See offshore wind farm. EDS will be responsible for the installation, termination and testing of 155k
IADC: Transport of Pipeline Optimization
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has released in its latest Terra et Aqua an article named ‘Transport of Pipeline Optimization‘. Formulated and submitted by Maarten Tronckoe, Simon Van den Berghe and Pieter Verpoest of Jan De Nul Group, the solution improves each facet of t
Minesto to Develop Smaller Deep Green Device
Minesto has announced plans to develop a smaller Deep Green device, the DG100. The DG100 unit will open new markets and business opportunities for the company, including those in Asia. Minesto said the move to enhance the company’s product range had arisen from the significant customer demand for sm
VIDEO: Royal IHC Launches Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger DC Orisant
The launching ceremony of new multi-purpose 5.450m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) DC Orisant took place a couple minutes ago at the Royal IHC’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, the Netherlands. The vessel was built for joint venture consisting of Den Herder (Reimerswaal Dredging) and Gro
Halfwave to Supply Inspection Tools for Nord Stream 2
Halfwave has been awarded a contract to design and build 48” Acoustic Resonance Technology (ART) Scan in-line inspection tools for Nord Stream 2. The ART Scan tools will be used to inspect the 48” Nord Stream 2 twin gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Halfwave’s custom-build ART Scan tools will be used
Busy Year for FSUE Rosmorport
The scope of dredging works performed by FSUE Rosmorport at access canals and water areas of Russia’s seaports exceeded 9.5 million m³ of material in 2017, the company said in their latest release. The majority of dredging operations was performed at Volga-Caspian canal (4.5 million m³), Kaliningrad
Halfwave to build pipeline inspection tool for Nord Stream 2
Halfwave has been awarded a contract to design and build in-line inspection tools for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea.
CSA Expands Trinidad and Tobago Services
CSA Ocean Sciences has expanded its operations in Trinidad and Tobago. CSA Ocean Sciences (Trinidad) will be led by Candice Leung Chee, chief executive officer, Carlyle Kalloo, director, and Rameez Persad, operations manager. The expanded executive team brings decades of collective experience in the
TechX Accelerator Attracts Developers Worldwide
The Oil & Gas Technology Centre’s TechX technology accelerator and incubator has so far received 75 applications from 17 countries for its Pioneer and Market Entry accelerator programmes. TechX launched in December 2017 to help smaller, ambitious technology developers take their solutions to the oil
Rovco Gets Innovate UK Boost for 3D Visualisation Project
Rovco, a subsea technology company, has secured Innovate UK funding to develop a 3D visualisation system as a part of a two-part Artificial Intelligence demonstrator project potentially worth £1 million. Working in partnership with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, the first phase of the
Novacavi Supplies Cables for Danish Defence Subsea Demining
Novacavi, a specialist cable manufacturer, has recently engineered, manufactured and supplied tough and size contained custom cables to support the Danish Defence subsea demining program. Tasked by the Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation, Novacavi developed an underwater hybrid cab
Ridge Expands Services Portfolio with Ocean Maxwell Buy
Norway-based well engineering and consultancy company Ridge has acquired a Norwegian oil and gas consultancy company Ocean Maxwell, owned fully by founder Cecilie Sælen. With this acquisition, Ridge believes it will further enhance the ability of the company to best serve the needs of new and existi