Equipment
Highlights of the Week
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (October 17-23, 2016). Royal IHC Adjusts Its Business Strategy As a direct consequence of persistently poor market conditions, Royal IHC, supplier of maritime equipment, is fine-tuning its strategy. PHOTO NEWS:
WATCH: Maria Subsea Pipeline Project
The video above shows summer 2016 subsea pipeline installation campaign on the Maria field, Wintershall’s flagship development in Norway. Maria field is located in the Haltenbanken area of the southern Norwegian Sea, some 200 kilometers from the mainland. The innovative field solution involves conne
IKM Completes Zeepipe IIA Retrofit Hot Tap Tee Project
IKM has completed and delivered Zeepipe IIA retrofit hot tap tee (RHTT) to Statoil. The final inspection with Statoil took place last Friday, and the delivery was signed and approved by the Norwegian oil and gas giant two weeks ahead of schedule. IKM Ocean Design announced the engineering, procureme
Waterking Presents New Multi Dredger with Damen Pump
Waterking BV, a Dutch company involved in the production of amphibious excavators, has presented a complete new multi purpose machine, equipped with Damen dredge pump. Earlier this month, this Waterking Multi Dredger completed its first successful test for a customer from Hungary. The machine has an
DNV GL and EPCRC in JIP on CO2 Pipelines
The Norwegian CLIMIT Programme and Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science have awarded DNV GL and Energy Pipelines CRC (EPCRC) just over NOK 40 million for a test programme for CO2 pipelines involving large scale testing at DNV GL’s Spadeadam test site in the UK. Pipelines are the
N-Sea and BODAC Team Up for UXO Services
Subsea IMR provider, N-Sea, and BODAC UXO have agreed to jointly market and execute marine UXO survey, identification and removal projects across Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia. In doing so, the two companies believe they will have the capability to offer developers, contractors a
New Dragflow Remote Controlled Dredger for Germany
Dragflow, an Italian manufacturer of heavy duty pumps and complete dredging equipment, has supplied a remote controlled dredger to a company in Germany, for tailing ponds cleaning. The request from the coal open mine (RWE) was to have a machine capable of dredging sediments from 3 ponds where all th
Another Italdraghe Marina Master 8000 Dredger for Brighton
Italdraghe SpA, an Italian manufacturer of specifically designed dredging and mining applications, delivered another Marina Master 8000 dredger to Brighton, in September 2016, and another one of the same will be delivered to the United Kingdom in the following weeks. This is the second dredger of it
TE SubCom Begins MAREA Subsea Cable Manufacture
TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity company, has been named the system supply partner for the new MAREA submarine cable across the Atlantic Ocean. TE SubCom has completed the route survey and began manufacture of the system at its facility in Newington, New Hampshire. The parties are on track to begin layi
Port of Sabetta Dredging Operations for 2016 Wrapped Up
Dredging operations on the Port of Sabetta and at the seaway canal in the Gulf of Ob scheduled for 2016 have now been wrapped up, according to the FSUE Rosmorport’s latest announcement. The scope of the performed dredging work in 2016 totaled 17.5 million m³, involving 23 units of equipment. These d
IHC Wins Culzean FSO Equipment Order
Royal IHC has signed a new contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of a tandem mooring and offloading system for an FSO vessel (floating, storage and offloading). The offloading system will be placed on the FSO vessel on behalf of Sembcorp Integrated Yard in Singapore. The vessel
Royal IHC to supply equipment for Maersk’s Culzean FSO
Royal IHC has won a new contract for the engineering, procurement, and construction of a tandem mooring and offloading system for a floating, storage and offloading (FSO) vessel meant for the Maersk Oil-operated Culzean field in the UK North Sea. The offloading system will be placed on the FSO vesse
Keller’s Gearbox for Cutter Suction Dredger Xin Hai Kun
Keller, a German manufacturer of special gearboxes, in Autumn 2015 received the request from the Chinese dredging company CCCC Shanghai Dredging Co., Ltd. for the modification and upgrade of the cutter drive aboard the cutter suction dredger Xin Hai Kun. The new design required a power increase of u
Impact Subsea, Unique Group Introduce Flooded Member Detection System
Impact Subsea, in collaboration with Unique Group, has launched underwater Flooded Member Detection (FMD) system. When used by divers or remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) the ISFMD system monitors and records water level, depth of reading, position of the sensor probe and temperature of water. A sof