Equipment
Renishaw’s laser DP system for Bourbon’s fleet
Renishaw, a British engineering company, has won a contract to supply Fanbeam 5 laser dynamic positioning (DP) reference systems to Bourbon vessels around the world. The company said that after a successful trial of Fanbeam 5 system on one of Bourbon’s Liberty series vessels in West Africa, Bourbon
MMT to Showcase at Offshore Energy 2015
Sweden’s marine survey specialist, MMT, will be exhibiting at Offshore Energy in October 2015. Offshore Energy exhibition & conference is a fast growing gathering for offshore industry professionals and is expecting over 10 000 visitors. It takes place at Amsterdam Rai on the 13 & 14 October 2015 an
iSURVEY Opens New Aberdeenshire Base
iSURVEY Offshore a part of the Norway-based iSURVEY Group, a provider of survey and positioning services to the global oil and gas and telecommunications sectors, has launched a new office in Aberdeenshire. Since an initial £500,000 investment in early 2014 to set up UK-based iSURVEY Offshore Limite
Scale Model Tests to Generate Savings, Deltares Says
To determine the impact of bow thrusters and ship propellers on water beds and embankments, Deltares is currently conducting scale model tests that will generate major savings on protection measures. High flow velocities caused by ship thrusters can result in large pits in water beds that may, in ex
AgustaWestland: Two AW189 helicopters for FALCON in Abu Dhabi
AgustaWestland, an Anglo-Italian helicopter manufacturing company, has delivered two AW189 super medium helicopters to Falcon Aviation Services (FALCON) of Abu Dhabi, in offshore transport configuration. The company says that the deliveries and entry into service in the UAE of the AW189 was marked b
Tocardo to Deploy Turbines in Eastern Scheldt
Tocardo will install five tidal turbines in the Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier (Oosterschelde barrier) to generate clean energy. According to the company, this installation will be both the largest tidal energy project in the Netherlands as well as the world’s largest commercial tidal installat
Airbus reveals offshore helicopter of the future
Airbus Helicopters has revealed the concept phase start-up for a new European helicopter, the X6, at the Paris Air Show yesterday. The company has said that it will now embark on a two-year definition period on this next-generation heavy-lift rotorcraft that will be tailored for oil and gas missions
Picture of the Day: Dredger KAO 505 Handed Over
The 2400 m3 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD), named KAO 505, was officially handed over to Taiwan International Ports Corporation (TIPC) on June 12th. The KAO505 was designed by FKAB in cooperation with HollandMT, and constructed at Taiwan’s Ching Fu Shipyard. HollandMT, an innovative engineer
Ocean Installer to work for Exxon on Balder field
Ocean Installer has been awarded its first call-off contract under a framework agreement with ExxonMobil Exploration & Production Norway AS (EEPNAS) for subsea well tie-back, engineering, IRM, ROV and associated services at the Balder field in the North Sea. According to the company, the call-off co
Dragflow Growing Big
Dragflow, an Italian manufacturer of dredging equipment specialized in solid pumping solutions, has been very busy in the last six months seeing excellent business growth and substantial product development. The company also moved its headquarters to a larger, bigger space where they will continue t
Alcatel-Lucent to Upgrade Tiscali’s Network
Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Italy’s Tiscali to deploy a 100G terrestrial optical backbone infrastructure and upgrade existing submarine links. The new agile optical networking solution, using its 1830 Photonic Service Switch platform will allow Tiscali to increase both data capacity and data
Alfa Laval’s T35 for Two TSHDs
Alfa Laval, a supplier of of products and solutions for heat transfer, separation and fluid handling, recently delivered its T35 gasketed plate heat exchangers for the central cooling systems onboard two trailing suction hopper dredgers. The next-generation T35s have been installed during the last d
CAPE Holland’s New VLT for Seaway Heavy Lifting
Dutch vibro-piling specialist, CAPE Holland, has officially handed over a Tandem CV-320 Vibro Lifting Tool (VLT) to Seaway Heavy Lifting during the CAPE Holland Product Launch. This new acquisition replaces the tandem vibro set which Seaway Heavy Lifting purchased from CAPE Holland in 2012, after a
More Equipment for New Bronka Port
Three more rubber tyred gantry crane (RTG crane) have been delivered to Bronka Port (MMPK Bronka) by the heavy load carrier M/V Meri. According to the project investor Phoenix LLC, the cranes were delivered from port Hanko and unloaded at Bronka’s berth No. 3. Unloading of the Konecranes-built crane