Equipment
VIDEO: Transporting Cutter Suction Dredger Ural River
Roll Group, a heavy shipping company, was recently called by client Van Oord to transport the cutter suction dredger ‘Ural River’. The operation started with the float-in of the dredger. When this was done, 84 and 53 pipes with a width of respectively 1.35 and 1.69 meters, and a length of almost 12
TE SubCom to Supply HAVFRUE Cable System
TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity company, has signed a system supplier contract for the HAVFRUE cable system with a consortium including Aqua Comms, Bulk Infrastructure, Facebook, and others. HAVFRUE, the Danish word for mermaid, will connect mainland Northern Europe to the USA. The system is comprised
Ridge expands with Ocean Maxwell buy
Ridge, a well engineering and consultancy company, has acquired Ocean Maxwell, a Norwegian oil and gas consultancy company owned by founder Cecilie Sælen.
Horns Rev 3 Foundations Installation Complete
Vattenfall has finalized the installation of 49 foundations for Denmark’s largest wind farm, Horns Rev 3, in the North Sea north-west of Blåvands Huk. The installation vessel Innovation has carried out the work. The farm will be in full operation and ready to cover 425,000 Danish households’ annual
Ecosse Subsea Systems Adds 800-Ton Carousel
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has reached an agreement with an undisclosed subsea contractor to buy back their 800-ton carousel which can be deployed on a range of specialist subsea projects. The carousel was originally built and used on an offshore renewables project in 2014 after ESS identified a su
Oceaneering’s Umbilicals for Statoil’s Johan Castberg
Oceaneering International has secured a contract from Statoil to supply umbilicals for the Johan Castberg project in the Barents Sea. The contract is for dynamic and static control umbilicals, totaling approximately 39 kilometers in length, and associated hardware. Oceaneering plans to design and ma
Wood Wins Subsea Contract for Celtic Interconnector
Wood is providing EirGrid Group, Ireland’s state-owned transmission system operator and France’s counterpart Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE), with subsea engineering services to the Celtic Interconnector project. The new contract, supported by Wood’s Galway, Paris and London offices, include
MFDevCo adds Aker Solutions as installation operator
Aker Solutions will be providing duty holder or ‘installation operator’ services on Marginal Field Development Company’s offshore oil and gas projects. MFDevCo, as the company is also known, on Tuesday said the addition of dutyholder capability is imperative in the final phases of project due dilige
TSHD DC Orisant Almost Ready for Launch
Reimerswaal Dredging said in their latest announcement that the new multi-purpose 5.450m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) DC Orisant is almost ready for the launch. The vessel is being built by Royal IHC for joint venture consisting of Den Herder (Reimerswaal Dredging) and Group de Cloedt. Ac
Kriegers Flak Foundations En Route to Denmark
Two foundations of 10,000 tonnes and 8,000 tonnes, destined for the Danish offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak, have left the port of Ostend in Belgium. According to Jan de Nul, the foundations are planned to arrive in Denmark on January 15, 2018, where, depending on the weather conditions, the first f
Rogue wave study could help with offshore platform design
New understanding of unusually large ocean waves could help inform the design of oil platforms
Innospection Demos Its Subsea Pipecrawler
Aberdeen-based, Innospection has designed and developed the MEC-Combi Pipecrawler which is said to be the first of its kind to use two types of subsea inspecting methods simultaneously for the external inspection of caissons. Innospection has already completed the inspection of two caissons for an o
IADC Terra et Aqua: Towards a Green Maritime Technology
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has released in its latest Terra et Aqua an article named ‘Towards a Green Maritime Technology’. In a world with growing population, urbanization, mechanization and thus increased energy demands in the future, in combination with the influen
Bluestream Beefs Up ROV Fleet
Netherlands-based Bluestream has expanded its fleet of 18 work-class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) with two additional systems. Both ROV systems, a Seaeye Panther-XT Plus and a Seaeye Cougar XT, are fitted with a Tether Management System (TMS), and are able to be operated on both platforms and F