Equipment
TSHD Arzana Launching Ceremony Takes Place Next Month
Royal IHC is putting final touches on the new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Arzana at their shipyard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. The TSHD Arzana, built for the Abu Dhabi based marine contractor National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC), will be the first custom-built trailing suction hopp
Baker Hughes in Another Coral South Win
Baker Hughes, a GE company, has secured a second contract for Eni East Africa’s (EEA) Coral South FLNG development, offshore Mozambique. The contract was awarded in 2Q this year by a joint venture formed by TechnipFMC and JGC Corporation, the lead partner in a consortium that will provide engineerin
DeepOcean Gears for Nemo Link Cabling Work
DeepOcean’s Maersk Connector has completed loading of the first phase on the Nemo Link cables in the port of Blyth. Two 59 km long 400kv HVDC XPLE cables were simultaneously spooled from a freighter onto the 7,000 te. split capacity duel concentric carousel. The vessel is now on its way to the UK co
Framo nets another FSRU pump contract
Norwegian marine pumping systems specialist, Framo secured a contract to deliver its systems for a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) ordered by shipowner GasLog at Samsung Heavy Industries. Framo, an Alfa Laval company, expects to deliver the sea water lift pumps in August 2018. This o
Ccrow saving offshore contractors’ valuable time
Ccrow, an abbreviation of Central certificates registry for on- & offshore workers, is a Belgium start-up helping offshore contractors to save time when moving between projects. As its name says, the company has clients in both, on- and offshore industries, covering crew certificates for workers emp
Kongsberg M3 Sonar for Teledyne Seabotix ROV
Teledyne Seabotix has integrated its vLBV observation class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) with Kongsberg M3 sonar system. The M3 sonar is a 2D multibeam system which provides high-resolution images by combining the rapid refresh rate of conventional multibeam sonar with image quality comparable to
Mud Cat MFD to Maintain Multiple Lakes in the Northeast US
Ellicott Dredge Technologies (EDT) has announced the successful launch of a Mud Cat MFD at Griffin & Howe’s Echo Lake in the Catskills region of New York. John Wunderluch of Freshwater selected the Mud Cat MFD because of its ability to work as a hydraulic dredge with the MC-Cutter Pump and a mechani
TechnipFMC to supply subsea equipment for West White Rose project
Oil and gas services company TechnipFMC has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract from Husky Energy for the West White Rose Project in Eastern Canada. The contract covers the supply and installation of subsea equipment including tie-in manifolds, fle
CGG to Expand Espirito Santo Basin Coverage
CGG has started work on Espirito Santo IV, a large BroadSeis 3D multi-client survey in the deep and ultra-deep waters of the Espirito Santo Basin offshore Brazil. The Oceanic Champion is acquiring the survey which is expected to take seven months. This industry-supported survey will cover 10,300 squ
Wellesley spuds Goanna offshore well (Norway)
Faroe Petroleum has informed that drilling has started at the Goanna exploration well 33/9-22 S in license PL 881, offshore Norway. The Goanna license, operated by Wellesley Petroleum, is located in the northern part of the Norwegian North Sea, near the border with the UK and adjacent to the giant p
Minesto Takes Delivery of Deep Green Wing
Minesto has taken delivery of the wing, the first one built for a Deep Green system in commercial scale. The wing was delivered to Minesto’s team in Holyhead from Southampton, where it has been manufactured by Green Marine. Prior to the delivery, factory acceptance test was performed at Green Marine
JD-Contractor Gets Nissum Bredning Cabling
JD-Contractor has been awarded the contract for the cabling of the 28MW Nissum Bredning project in Denmark, where Siemens Gamesa will test a variety of its new offshore wind solutions. On behalf of I/S Nissum Bredning Vind, Siemens Gamesa is constructing four wind turbines and related equipment in N
IKM Cleandrill Lands Absheron Gig
Early 2018 IKM Cleandrill will start its first offshore operations in the Caspian Sea, after being awarded a contract for riserless mud circulating system services by Total E&P ABSHERON BV on behalf of JOCAP, Joined Operating Company for Absheron Project, JV between SOCAR (50%) and TOTAL (50%). The
PHOTO: Watermaster Amphibious Dredger Busy in Sri Lanka
The Negombo Lagoon cleanup project in Sri Lanka was recently completed by using a multipurpose Watermaster amphibious dredging machine. The Negombo Lagoon suffers from heavy siltation and the presence of urban debris, making big trouble for the fishing and sightseeing boats to enter the certain part