Equipment
Wood Group – Amec Foster Wheeler Deal Receives Shareholders Nod
Wood Group and Amec Foster Wheeler shareholders have approved Wood Group’s recommended all-share offer for Amec Foster Wheeler. The deal remains subject to relevant clearances from competition authorities in certain countries where both companies operate. It is expected that the transaction will com
SMD Gives Newcastle University Students Insight into Subsea Engineering
Tyneside-based subsea vehicle manufacturer, Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD), has recently given Newcastle University students insight into the offshore engineering industry as part of a special research trip. The students are members of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) which
Lankhorst Ropes Supplies Fibre Rope for MacGregor Crane
LankoDeep fibre rope from Lankhorst Ropes has been selected for the MacGregor FibreTrac crane. The MacGregor FibreTrac crane will have a 150-tonne safe working load capacity. It has been designed and will be built to comply with the latest DNV GL lifting appliance, fibre and rope manufacturing rules
ASV Demos Autonomous Surface – Subsurface Survey System
ASV Global is leading a collaborative research project called ‘Autonomous Surface and Sub-surface Survey System’ (ASSSS), which aims to deliver an integrated system to provide a means of conducting low cost, shore based, full water column marine surveys using multiple unmanned systems. The project,
J2 Subsea to Offer BluHaptics ROV Manipulator Software
BluHaptics, the software company pioneering new technology for augmented robotics, and Aberdeen-based J2 Subsea have formed a sales and distribution partnership for BluHaptics’ first commercially available product – a software solution that reportedly makes the operation of underwater manipulator ar
ABB Delivers DolWin2 Project
ABB has commissioned and handed over the DolWin2 offshore wind transmission link to the Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT. DolWin2 is the third offshore wind connection project that ABB has executed for TenneT in Germany’s North Sea, following BorWin1 and DolWin1. The high voltage dir
DEME Forms Drone Partnership with Airobot
DEME, a Belgian dredging, hydraulic engineering and environmental solutions group, has partnered with Airobot in its plan to involve the drones into DEME’s operations. “We are considering drones to improve the safety of our crews on our construction sites,” said Lorentz Lievens, head of the DEME sur
ASV to Build Two More USVs for Ocean Infinity
Ocean Infinity has purchased two unmanned surface vehicles (USV) from ASV Global. The additions will be used as auxiliary rapid response vehicles in the seabed exploration system. The USVs are being designed with a selection of sensors allowing for flexibility in differing operations, ASV noted. Oce
Coda Octopus Sets Up New Base in Edinburgh
Underwater technologies specialist Coda Octopus Products said it has consolidated and expanded its Edinburgh facilities. The new facility should enhance the company’s product delivery and service provision by co-locating all business functions within a single, integrated location and through the ext
Big Win for MAN Diesel & Turbo
In just four months, MAN Diesel & Turbo has won contracts for four Chinese dredger newbuildings. Chinese outfits CHECD, Jiangsu Haixin and Huanghua Port Bureau recently chose MAN medium-speed engines for the new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). CHECD CHECD (CHEC Dredging Company Ltd.) – a sub
NKT Completes First Campaign of Caithness-Moray Subsea Link
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
Heinen & Hopman to Supply HVAC for New TSHD
Heinen & Hopman announced recently that it will supply the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) for a new, custom-built Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD), to be built by Royal IHC for the Administración Nacional de Puertos in Montevideo, Uruguay. The basic design and detailed engine
IKM Subsea begins onshore-controlled ROV ops in Norway
IKM Subsea has begun onshore-controlled remote operated vehicle (ROV) operations from the company’s headquarters in Bryne, Norway. IKM began what it described on Wednesday as “the world’s first commercial onshore controlled ROV operations” on Monday, June 12. The company added that up to three work-
OGTC Gets Positive Response to Its First ‘Call for Ideas’
The oil and gas industry has said it may be one step closer to transforming well plug and abandonment (P&A) as 45 potential solutions were submitted for its first ‘Call for Ideas’. The OGTC received ideas and concepts that could have a material impact on this transformation, against three specific t