Equipment
Statoil Extends with Altus Intervention
Altus Intervention, a subsidiary of the Qinterra Group, has won a contract extension with Statoil for power mechanical services on a number of its North Sea and Norwegian Sea fields. The new two-year agreement will see Altus deliver its services across Heidrun, Statfjord, Snorre, Sleipner and Statoi
JFD Boosts Its Team
JFD has welcomed Graeme M Mackie as Diving Technical Authority at their National Hyperbaric Centre in Aberdeen. Mackie has over 28 years experience within the diving, ROV and construction industries, most recently as vessels operations manager for Ceona. He started his career as an air diver for Tec
Global Marine Secures Extension with Atlantic Cable Maintenance Agreement
Global Marine Systems has been awarded the renewal of the Atlantic Cable Maintenance Agreement (ACMA), alongside its Atlantic partner for maintenance services, Orange Marine. The new contract began on January 1, 2017, and runs for five years, through to December 2021. ACMA is a non-profit cooperativ
DeepOcean to Install East Anglia ONE Export Cables
DeepOcean has been awarded cable installation and trenching work by Nexans for ScottishPower Renewable’s East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Offshore work will be undertaken by 2019 with the Maersk Connector and purpose built power cable plough, ACP2, supported by DeepOcean’s in-hou
Atlas Copco Agrees to Acquire Erkat
Atlas Copco has agreed to acquire Erkat Spezialmaschinen und Service GmbH, a Germany based manufacturer of drum cutter attachments for excavators. “Drum cutters are an ideal complementary product for Atlas Copco as a solution provider in rock excavation, tunnel and foundation profiling and demolitio
Nexans to Supply Cables for East Anglia ONE OWF
ScottishPower Renewables has chosen Nexans to supply submarine cables for the 714 MW East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm. Nexans will supply and install two 85 km 3-core submarine cables with embedded fibre optics, as well as accompanying accessories, for the wind farm in the North Sea. The contract
ACE Winches to Axe UK Jobs
ACE Winches has advised its employees of potential headcount reductions at its UK facilities in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. The company is currently in consultation with its staff and said it is making every effort to mitigate any potential impact on its employees. As a result of this process it is anti
Van Oord, Seajacks Win East Anglia One Foundations Setup Project
ScottishPower Renewables has contracted marine engineering specialist Van Oord and Great Yarmouth-based Seajacks to transport and install the foundation jackets on the East Anglia One offshore wind farm. The main installation vessel will be Seajacks Scylla. The contract should support 140 current po
HR Wallingford VIDEO: Designing Aberdeen Harbor Expansion
In a wave basin, in its physical modelling laboratories in Oxfordshire, HR Wallingford’s engineers have built a scaled model of the proposed new Aberdeen Harbor. HR Wallingford has been involved in the project from its initial concept stages in 2010, and will be working with Aberdeen Harbor Board ri
Prysmian Hooks Up Veja Mate to Borwin2
Prysmian informed that the interconnection between the Veja Mate offshore wind farm and the offshore grid connection system Borwin2 in the German North Sea has been successfully plugged in. The project was awarded to Prysmian by TenneT, the Dutch-German transmission system operator (TSO). Assodivers
TechnipFMC merger complete
TechnipFMC has started operating as a unified, combined company following completion of the merger of FMC Technologies and Technip. The company on Tuesday said the merger creates “a global leader in oil and gas projects, technologies, systems, and services that will enhance the performance of the wo
LNG TSHD Scheldt River Hits the Water
DEME’s 7.950m³ LNG-powered trailing suction hopper dredger, named the Scheldt River, was launched today at Royal IHC’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel. This impressive ship is the second dredging vessel in the world that is equipped with dual fuel engines and capable of operating in full LNG mode
Woodmac: Deepwater will spring back to life in 2017
Energy intelligence group Wood Mackenzie sees the deepwater upstream oil and gas sector springing back to life in 2017. Providing its take on what to expect in 2017, Woodmac forecasts the overall upstream investment cycle will show the first signs of growth in 2017 since 2014 and final investment de
Emera Launches Energy Solicitation for Atlantic Link
Emera has initiated a solicitation process for energy to be bundled with transmission capacity on the proposed Atlantic Link submarine electricity transmission project. Atlantic Link is a proposed submarine high-voltage direct current (HVDC) electric transmission line that will deliver 900 megawatts