Equipment
Add Energy and Trendsetter Develop RWIS Lite
Add Energy and Trendsetter Engineering have teamed up to develop the Relief Well Injection Spool (RWIS) Lite, designed to reduce the complexity of relief well operations, when coupled with the original RWIS product. RWIS Lite is an exact structural replica of the original RWIS, which allows for dupl
Prysmian to Connect Three French Offshore Wind Farms to Mainland
Prysmian has been awarded a contract from Réseau de Transport d’Électricité to develop submarine cable links to connect the three planned offshore wind farms to the mainland power grid in mainland France. The offshore wind farms to be connected via submarine cable are Fécamp, Calvados and Saint Naza
Nibulon Launches New Dredger – Mykolaivets
The Ukrainian Nibulon Shipbuilding and Repair Yard said in their latest release that they launched a high-capacity self-propelled СДС-15 dredger with a symbolic name Mykolaivets on September 17. According to the director of Nibulon Shipbuilding and Repair Yard, Dmytro Horbenko, the launched vessel i
Royal IHC and Subsea 7 Finalize New Reel Lay Vessel Order
Royal IHC and Subsea 7 have signed a firm contract for the design and build of a new reel lay vessel, following a letter of intent announced in September this year. The vessel will be capable of installing rigid flowlines including pipe-in-pipe systems from shallow waters to depths of up to 3000m. W
Subsea Supplies Agrees Partnership with Innerspace
Subsea Supplies has become the UK distributor of Innerspace Corporation, a US-based designer and manufacturer of thrusters and motors for applications on ROVs, AUVs and submarines. For more than 65 years Innerspace has provided propulsion technology for submersible vehicles for industrial, commercia
Corvus energy system to power two Havila PSVs
Orca ESS from Corvus Energy has been selected to provide battery power to two Havila offshore platform supply vessels chartered by Statoil. Corvus Energy said on Monday that it would supply a lithium-ion-based energy storage systems (ESS) for two platform supply vessels (PSVs) set to be retrofitted
Work Begins on UK Floating Tidal Demonstrator
Work has started on the design of Instream’s floating tidal stream energy device. The fullscale demonstrator which features multiple vertical axis turbines mounted on a single floating platform will be deployed and tested in early 2019, the company informed. The £1,48 million Instream Tidal Energy R
Applied Acoustics’ Nexus 2 for Baltic Sea Survey
Contractors working in the Gulf of Finland in the eastern Baltic Sea have selected Applied Acoustics’ Nexus 2 USBL system to carry out sidescan sonar surveys in advance of engineering works as well as for use in marine archaeological operations. The award of this contract is notable as it marks the
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (September 25 – October 01). TechnipFMC has been awarded by Statoil an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract. It covers the execution of the subsea pipeline connection for th
Highlights of the Week
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (September 25 – October 1, 2017). DEME Holds Naming Ceremony for TSHD Scheldt River The trailing suction hopper dredger Scheldt River was officially named two days ago at the DEME head office in Zwijndrecht, Belgi
DEME Holds Naming Ceremony for TSHD Scheldt River
The trailing suction hopper dredger Scheldt River was officially named yesterday at the DEME head office in Zwijndrecht, Belgium. The dredger was named by Mrs Veerle Hegge, the wife of Mr Bart De Wever, Mayor of Antwerp. The 8,400 m³ Scheldt River is the second dredger in the DEME fleet equipped wit
Seaborn and Aqua Comms Establish New Subsea Link
Seaborn and Aqua Comms have formed a strategic alliance to provide a new subsea route between South America and Europe. Seaborn’s Seabras-1 subsea fiber network between São Paulo and New York now directly interconnects with Aqua Comms’ America-Europe Connect-1 (AEConnect), Ireland’s first subsea fib
Partrac Collects Data for Scottish Aquaculture Project
UK marine survey company Partrac has recently provided sea bed erosion data to the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), for a project aimed at upgrading a fish waste dispersion model (NewDEPOMOD). Used by the Regulator to underpin the consenting process for the domestic aquaculture indust
WATCH: PSW Demonstrates Its Well Control Response
PSW Group has taken a strategic step to provide operators with a capping stack as part of Norwegian oil & gas emergency response plans. PSW Group’s capping stack was mobilized and deployed in Fensfjorden on the 22nd of August, as demonstration of the company’s ability to immediately respond to a wel