Equipment
Highlights of the Week
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (March 6-12, 2017). Neptune Builds Van Oord’s First LNG-Powered Vessel Van Oord, a Rotterdam based company specializing in dredging, marine engineering and offshore projects, has ordered the construction of a new
Prysmian Inter-Array Cables for Two Offshore Wind Farms
Prysmian Group has secured two new contracts for offshore wind farms in Germany and Denmark. The contracts are for the development of inter-array cable systems to link among the turbines composing the Merkur offshore wind farm in Germany and Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in Denmark. The contract fo
Paradigm Flow Services Marks Good Start in 2017
Paradigm Flow Services has secured work worth in excess of £5 million since the beginning of this year, and is said to be seeking to grow its team as the upward trend looks set to continue. The Aberdeenshire-based oil and gas services provider has, since the start of 2017, seen the award of contract
Neptune Builds Van Oord’s First LNG-Powered Vessel
Van Oord, a Rotterdam based company specializing in dredging, marine engineering and offshore projects, has ordered the construction of a new crane vessel. This vessel, which will be named Werkendam, will be Van Oord’s first LNG-powered vessel. It will generally be deployed to Netherlands-based proj
Fugro Inspects Viking Link Route
Fugro has completed a seabed survey for the Viking Link, one of the longest DC electricity interconnectors that will link the UK and Danish electricity supplies. The Viking Link, a joint venture between the UK’s National Grid and Denmark’s Energinet, is a proposed 1,400-megawatt high voltage direct
FairfieldNodal to run two North Sea seismic surveys
U.S.-based geophysical company FairfieldNodal will conduct back-to-back surveys in the UK and the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The company said on Thursday that the two campaigns would begin in early April 2017. Due to the specific conditions of the North Sea, FairfieldNodal will be employing it
Our New Dredging Vessel Directory Available!
Our new Dredging Vessel Directory (DVD), featuring more cutter suction dredgers (CSD) than the last year’s edition, is now finished and available online! Being introduced for the first time today at the IRO-CEDA meeting in Voorschoten, the new directory, which will provide the dredging industry with
Motive Offshore Sets Up Quayside Facility in Dundee
Motive Offshore has launched Motive Fabrication in Dundee after negotiating with the port to take over the site, which boasts a deep water quay side facility, alongside a 12,000 sq ft workshop and 2,000 sq ft office block. The base allows Motive Fabrication to reinstate the fabrication service at th
N-Seatec Wins Subsea Cabling Order
N-Seatec Subsea Systems said it has received an order for a large batch of signal and power cabling to be used on a wind farm. According to the company, delivery consist of various special designed 4x 50mm2 umbilicals all to be fitted with the MSSQ connector which are capable to handle up to 250Amps
Auxilium Offshore Inks Deal for Underwater Safety Centre in Asia
Auxilium Offshore has signed a contract with an undisclosed client to design, construct and install fit for purpose equipment for an underwater safety centre in Asia. The equipment supply exists of a wet bell with launch & recovery system, an adjustable diving stage, a hyperbaric chamber to accommod
Backhoe Dredger Magnor Fitted with WDH Cylinders
WDH Hydraulics announced recently that the digging system of the world’s largest backhoe dredger Magnor is equipped with 12 WDH cylinders. In the release, the company said that in consultation with the client’s technical specialists, WDH came up with a customer-specific design. The double-acting hyd
Sonomatic Officially Launches New Facility
Sonomatic has created a centre of excellence for NDT and integrity services at its brand new, multi-disciplined facility at The Core business park in Bridge of Don, Aberdeen. Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy, Paul Wheelhouse joined Sonomatic with the unveiling of a plaque dedicated to th
Royal IHC: Keel Laying Ceremony for NMDC’s New TSHD
The keel laying ceremony for the first custom-build trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) in the Gulf area took place yesterday at Royal IHC’s shipyard in Kinderdijk. The vessel is being built for the National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC), an Abu Dhabi based marine contractor. The Arzanah will ha
Impact Subsea Introduces New Product
Impact Subsea has launched new underwater attitude & heading reference system – the ISM3D. The unit provides heading to ±0.5° of local magnetic North with pitch and roll to ±0.05° accuracy. For optimal performance, a hard and soft iron calibration can be performed on the unit once installed on the R