Picture of the Day: Dredgers Crowding New Suez The New Suez Canal project is currently under construction and is scheduled to be delivered next August. Chief Mate Guilty Over Fatal Dredger Collision On the 8th June 2014 the Shoreway, a 98 metre 5000 tonne dredger, owned […]
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (February 16 – February 22). French oil services provider, Technip, has recorded net income drop of 40% in the fourth quarter after adjusted non-current items, despite revenue growth. The Company’s adj
Houston-headquartered ProSep, the oil, gas and water treatment specialist, has launched an Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) joint industry project (JIP) with Qatar Petroleum and Petroleum Development Oman. The 12 month project, which started in December 2014, will see ProSep work collaborativel
Saudi Aramco has informed that the heavy lift barge Lan Jing completed the installation of the Hasbah tie-in platform (TP) using its 7,500-ton crane, carrying weight that reached about 5,000 tons – which is, according to the company, its new record for heavy lift operation. The new tie-in platform w
DEME, the Belgian dredging, hydraulic engineering and environmental solutions group, has secured a number of new contracts worldwide. The total value of these orders is approximately 1.6 billion EUR. Foremost important is a Letter of Award received in Singapore. The Maritime and Port Authority of Si
AGR has announced a contract win to optimise drilling performance with LUKOIL Overseas, the operator of LUKOIL’s international upstream projects. The contract covers LUKOIL’s drilling operations in several territories internationally, including Middle East, Black Sea, Africa and Central Asia. AGR sa
Lamprell has announced the completion of construction on the jack-up rig “Jindal Pioneer” and its delivery to Dev Drilling Pte Ltd of Singapore, a D. P. Jindal Group Company, on time and within budget. The contract for the “Jindal Pioneer” rig was signed in January 2013 and this is the second rig wi
Norwegian ocean-bottom seismic specialist, Magseis, has secured a deal with BGP Arabia Co. Ltd for a pilot survey for the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco). According to Magseis, the survey will be conducted in the Red Sea and should last until the end of February. This is the company’s secon
VIDEO: Panama Canal Expansion – January 2015 The largest infrastructure project since the waterway’s original construction, the Panama Canal Expansion Program will create a new lane of traffic along the Canal through the construction of a new set of locks, doubling the waterway’s capacity. Van Oor
The month of January begins a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC). Incorporated in May 1965, the association brought together 60 participants of 38 international dredging contractors from 12 countries. Dredging h
In December, hotel occupancy rates in Aberdeen dropped 4.5% compared to the same period in 2013, according to market analysts LJ Research. It’s just one of the knock-on effects of the fall in oil prices, with other, more obvious ones being the abrupt slowdown in drilling and near-daily announcements
During their transit to the Middle East in November and December 2014, the crew of HMAS Success assisted the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation with their global Argo program. This innovative project aims to gather up ocean data using robotic floats. Success supported this
DRAGFLOW has delivered a specifically designed machine to one of the contractors in the oil and gas industry, in order to remove sand from seabed and allow the oil pipes’ maintenance. DRAGFLOW attached, by a steel structure, 2 Hydraulic Pumps, HY85, to a shell, that was designed and created, to cove
An Israeli contractor has invested in three large Hitachi excavators to supply rocks for extending breakwaters, which will form part of the construction project for two new container terminals at the ports of Haifa and Ashdod. AD Edan Hadash Earthmoving Contractors Ltd. has purchased two ZX470LCH-5s
