Equipment
Rijkswaterstaat Takes Down Noordwaard Levee
Instead of raising the river levee, the Dutch national public works Rijkswaterstaat started to lower the levee along the river Rhine with 3 meter over a length of 2 km. In case of an extreme river discharge, the river will overtop the lowered levee and flood the hinterland, the Noordwaard polder. Du
Kooiman Signs Dredger Conversion Contract
Scheepswerf Gebr. Kooiman BV, a subsidiary of The Kooiman Group, has inked a contract to complete a conversion project for the trailing suction hopper dredger Ostsee. The conversion involves the replacement of dredging installation’s electrical drives with the direct diesel drives. Two jet water pum
Van Oord’s Twelfth Water Injection Dredger Named
For the first time, Van Oord named a vessel at its Rotterdam head office jetty. The vessel is a water injection dredging vessel that is almost 19 m long and more than 5 m wide. Van Oord employee Ms Jacqueline Determann named the vessel Borr. Water injection dredging is a proven technique for small-s
News in Photos: Dragflow at OMC in Ravenna
Dragflow, a company specialized in solid pumping solutions with over 25 years of experience in manufacturing heavy duty pumps and complete dredging equipment, has recently attended the twelfth bi-annual Offshore Mediterranean Conference (OMC 2015) in Ravenna, Italy. The three-day conference hosted a
CGG Challenges Dolphin Record Claims
After the recent announcement from Dolphin about mobilisation of what the company described as “world’s largest floating object” by deploying a seismic spread of 12 streamers offshore Myanmar, Subsea World News received a notice from CGG claiming the announcement as “misinformation from Dolphin”. Th
Dolphin’s world record questioned by CGG
French seismic data acquisition specialist CGG has questioned a reported world record by its Norwegian rival Dolphin Geophysical. To remind, Dolphin Geophysical recently reported it had mobilised “the ‘world’s largest floating object’ by deploying a seismic spread of 12 streamers, 7,050 meters in
HCS Launches Mobile Workshops for Safer Subsea Ops
HCS Control Systems has launched a fleet of new mobile workshops which will, according to the company, make the maintenance of critical subsea control systems offshore much safer. The company, which designs, manufactures, assembles and tests subsea equipment, has invested £750,000 in the development
Prysmian Lands EUR 230 Mln 50Hertz Cable Deal
Prysmian has secured a new award by 50Hertz Offshore GmbH, a subsidiary of 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, transmission grid operator in Germany, worth approximately €230 million to design, produce and install a power cable system for the offshore wind park cluster West of Adlergrund in the German Baltic
MTA TURKUAZ Launched in Turkey
Turkey’s first domestic production Seismic Research Vessel MTA TURKUAZ’s launching ceremony was held this Saturday, March 28. The vessel is designed by SEFT Design Co. (SRV87), a Turkish vessel design company, and built by Istanbul Shipyard in Tuzla. MTA TURKUAZ, 86 meters long and 23 meters wide, T
Assessing Socio-Economic Effects of Land Reclamation
Whilst land reclamation receives increasing attention as a feasible urban solution for coastal development, conclusions on the social and economic effects of reclamation projects are not clear, stated International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) in its latest publication. A straightforward
Subsea UK Presents Global Subsea Market Database
Subsea UK has launched a new market intelligence service to help subsea companies exploit global opportunities. The industry body, which represents the UK’s £9 billion subsea sector, has developed SubseaIntel – a unique on-line database which provides regularly updated details on almost 1,200 subsea
New ROV Operations Manager at The Underwater Centre
The Underwater Centre, a subsea training and trials facility, has appointed Steve Cullen to the newly created role of ROV Operations Manager, where he will lead the development of the Centre’s ROV training and trials activities. He joins the Centre from Ashtead Technology and Subsea 7 where he took
CTI to Launch New SonarWiz at Ocean Business
Chesapeake Technology, Inc., (CTI) is launching new SonarWiz at the Ocean Business show in April. As the company explains, the new SonarWiz has a modern look, visible enhancements to all modules (sidescan, sub-bottom, bathymetry, and magnetometry), more integrated plan-view and 3D visualizations, an
Rapp Marine Subsea Crane for Otto Candies
Rapp Marine has secured a contract with Otto Candies LLC to deliver a 150 ton AHC crane for one of their vessels. Currently, Rapp Marine has delivered around 450 cranes, however, according to the company, this is the largest crane Rapp Marine has engineered and built to date. Rapp Marine U.S. CEO, J