Equipment
Forum Takes Over Global Tubing, Gets Quantum as Major Shareholder
Forum Energy Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the membership interests in Global Tubing from its joint venture partner Quantum Energy Partners. As part of the transaction, Forum will also acquire management’s interest in the joint venture and repay Global Tubing‘s net debt.
Jay Cashman: Conversion of Kraken
In their Summer 2017 Issue of the Company Magazine, Jay Cashman, Inc. said that the company’s hydraulic barge offloader Kraken has been refitted recently so it can now operate either as a barge offloader or as a booster barge. The American heavy-construction company based in Quincy, Massachusetts, s
Kraken Project Aims to Reduce IRM Costs
A new European project named Kraken has started. The project received €350.000 through financing of OCEANERANET (Ocean Energy European Research Area Network) and gathers four partners of three different countries: WavEC Offshore Renewables and Instituto Super Técnico (Portugal), SIANI (Canary Island
PGS Gets New President & CEO
Norwegian seismic player Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has appointed Rune Olav Pedersen as the new president & CEO of the company. He will succeed Jon Erik Reinhardsen on September 1, 2017. “The Board has run a thorough succession process since early spring, and assessed a number of very qualified No
Crown Estate Scotland Makes Offshore Data Available to Public
Crown Estate Scotland now has spatial data relating to the organisation’s offshore assets freely available on its website for the first time. The data covers infrastructure projects and undersea cabling and can be used by a range of organisations from oil and gas companies to consultancies and educa
Ashtead Appoints APAC Sales Manager
Subsea equipment specialist Ashtead Technology has boosted its Singapore operation with the appointment of Ankit Munjal as regional sales manager. Munjal will be responsible for the firm’s sales and business development activities in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region in support of both existing and new
Highlights of the Week
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (August 21-27, 2017). Jan De Nul’s New Cutter Suction Dredger Launched Mrs. Julie De Nul has released the self-propelled cutter suction dredger Willem van Rubroeck in the sea at the Uljanik Shipyard in Croatia.
PHOTO: Upgrading TSHD Amazone
Royal IHC and Dutch Dredging have joined forces to upgrade the pump room on the trailing suction hopper dredger Amazone. Both companies worked together in close cooperation to design a drive train capable of reducing its loading time by more than 30%. “IHC is the only service provider capable of sup
Uljanik: Launching of Jan De Nul’s New CSD Set for Tomorrow
Croatian shipbuilder Uljanik has just announced that the launching ceremony of one of the world’s largest cutter suction dredgers, Jan De Nul’s ‘Willem van Rubroeck’, will take place tomorrow, August 26. The new CSD will be approximately 50% more powerful than the J.F.J. De Nul, currently the larges
MacArtney Nets Oceanographic Instruments Order from University of Bergen
MacArtney has secured an order for LISST instruments from University of Bergen, Norway. LISST instruments are manufactured by Seattle based oceanographic instrument manufacturer, Sequoia Scientific, and used for environmental monitoring, industrial, and scientific application. The order placed by Un
New Qatar and Singapore Contracts for DEME
DEME’s subsidiary MEDCO (Middle East Dredging Company) has been awarded a contract for the Old Doha Port Redevelopment project in Qatar. In Singapore, DIAP (Dredging International Asia Pacific Pte Ltd) also secured a contract for the Ayer Merbau Reclamation Phase 2 project, DEME said in its latest r
TFKable gets regulatory approval for JDR acquisition
A regulatory approval has been granted for TELE-FONIKA Kable’s recently announced acquisition of JDR Cable Systems, a supplier subsea umbilicals and power cables to the offshore energy industry. The completion, which is expected within a week pending final legal and administrative proceedings, comes
WEFIC Completes MSW-1 System Test in China
WEFIC, a Kerui Petroleum’s wellhead brand, completed the API 17D subsea production system performance test of its MSW-1 shallow water mudline suspension wellhead system, filling the gap in China’s mudline suspension technology for underwater oil and gas production. The test fully simulated the insta
Halliburton, Microsoft to drive O&G digital transformation
Tech company Microsoft and oil services provider Halliburton have entered into a strategic alliance aiming to drive digital transformation across the oil and gas industry. Halliburton said earlier this week that the relationship would combine the expertise of a software company with cloud and digita