Equipment
Strainstall Provides Mooring Monitoring for Hywind Project
Strainstall, a part of James Fisher and Sons, has been awarded a contract to provide mooring monitoring for the Hywind pilot park – the world’s first floating offshore wind farm. The contract with MacGregor will provide an integrated offshore mooring solution for the floating turbines. The Hywind pi
WATCH: DEME Splashes ‘Living Stone’
Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group DEME, has launched its newest DP3 multipurpose vessel ‘Living Stone’, built by the Spanish shipyard LaNaval near Bilbao, Spain. The launching ceremony was carried out by Sarah Tommelein, spouse of Bart Tommelein, vice-minister-president of
Osbit Supplies Subsea Docking System for Modus AUV
Osbit, the subsea engineering and technology company, has delivered two subsystems for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), operated by subsea and seabed intervention company Modus. Osbit has designed and manufactured a floating launch dock and a sea parking garage to meet Modus’s launch and reco
DEME’s Multi Purpose Vessel ‘Living Stone’ Hits the Water
DEME Group yesterday celebrated the launch of their new multi purpose vessel ‘Living Stone’, the most advanced vessel in its class. The vessel, being built by the Spanish shipyard LaNaval near Bilbao, has been designed as an environmentally friendly vessel with ‘dual fuel’ main engines with LNG bein
Subsea UK Gears for ROV Conference Next Week
The upcoming Subsea UK’s 2016 Underwater Vehicles Conference will aim its focus at advances in remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), autonomous inspection technology and the challenges posed by a sustained low oil price. Formally known as the Subsea UK ROV Conference, the event will take place on Tuesd
MacGregor equipment for seven Middle East-bound OSVs
MacGregor, a provider of deck machinery and cranes for offshore support vessels, has won what it describes as a “comprehensive equipment package” of contracts for a variety of seven specialist support vessels that will operate in the Middle East region. MacGregor will deliver deck cranes and a range
AKVA Group Names New CFO
Norwegian equipment provider for aquaculture industry AKVA group has appointed Simon Nyquist Martinsen as the company’s new chief financial officer. Martinsen will join the Oslo-listed firm from Constructor Group where he also serves as CFO. According to Akva group his appointment should be effectiv
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (September 12 – September 18). Aker Solutions, Det norske oljeselskap and Subsea 7 agreed on a so-called “one for all, all for one” collaboration model that should, as the companies believe, mark a maj
Liebherr Presents New PR 716 Crawler Tractor
At GaLaBau Liebherr is presenting the new PR 716 crawler tractor, which was unveiled to the public for the first time at Bauma 2016. The successor model to the successful PR 714 has an operating weight between 13,200kg and 15,200kg and an engine power of 93kW / 126HP. The series of generation 6 craw
Aker Solutions in Troll B Win
Aker Solutions has secured a contract from Statoil to deliver a compression module for the Troll field in the North Sea to help boost output at one of Norway’s key offshore fields. The contract is valued at NOK 370 million and is an option in a front end engineering and design (FEED) agreement award
AXYS New Wave Sensor Completes Sea Trials
AXYS Technologies (AXYS) said it has completed a series of sea trials on its new TRIAXYS g3 wave sensor. The trials were conducted both in the German Bight and off the West Coast of Canada and used both AXYS’ own TRIAXYS wave buoy and other industry standard buoys as references. According to the com
Subsea 7’s Culzean Job Under Way with Cutting of First Steel
Subsea 7 has cut first steel on subsea structures for Maersk Oil’s Culzean project at Nigg Energy Park fabrication yard. The work is part of a $150-million subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline (SURF) contract the company announced in September last year. The contract scope includes project manageme
Nexans Wins Blyth OWF Subsea Cables Contract
Nexans cable technology has been selected by VBMS to deliver inter-array and export cables for Blyth offshore wind farm. As part of its own contract with EDF Energy Renewables, VBMS will use the Nexans 66 kV inter-array cable system to provide the subsea connection between the offshore turbines and
Aquind Interconnector Gets Ofgem Nod
Aquind has been given a green light by Ofgem for a project to build a £1.1 billion subsea and underground electricity cable linking Hampshire, UK with Normandy in France. The Aquind interconnector is due for completion in 2021 and should deliver up to 2GW of additional capacity to the UK power grid.