Equipment
Kongsberg Maritime Horten Training Centre Open for Business
This week was the official opening of Kongsberg Maritime’s expanded training centre in Horten. Located on the dockside of the inner harbour, the centre is set to welcome course participants from around the world. The team, consisting of seven instructors, will be able to provide a complete set of co
BP Negotiating Sale of Forties Pipeline to Ineos
BP has entered into discussions with Ineos regarding a potential sale of the Forties Pipeline System (FPS). The FPS system comprises an approximately 100 mile offshore pipeline from the unmanned offshore Forties Unity platform to the onshore terminal at Cruden Bay. The second part of the system is a
Fugro Continues Seep Hunting Campaign in GoM
In collaboration with multi-client geoscience data company, TGS, Fugro continues to map the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico to pull together a complete picture of geological features, including hydrocarbon seeps. This latest survey, “Otos”, follows the successful completion of another TGS industry-fu
OceanGate Plans Titanic Tour in 2018
OceanGate Expeditions said it will conduct the first manned submersible expedition to the wreck of the RMS Titanic since 2005. The survey expedition team will use a newly built manned submersible to assess the condition of the shipwreck and document artifacts in the debris field. The exploration tea
New Player Enters Subsea Dredging Market
Subsea Tooling Services UK Ltd (STS) was officially launched at Subsea Expo 2015. Created by three individuals, the management team has a combined industry experience of over sixty years which has brought new innovative, reliable and performance leading products into the dredging market. Dredging To
New Italdraghe Marina Master 8000 Dredger for Fambridge
Italdraghe SpA, an Italian manufacturer of specifically designed dredging and mining applications, has delivered another Marina Master 8000 dredger to Fambridge Marina in Essex for her new owners Yacht Havens Ltd. This is the third dredger of its kind to be supplied to a UK marina owner and the seco
Aker Solutions Lands $118 Mln Njord A Deal
Aker Solutions will provide design engineering for the upgrading of the semi-submersible Njord A platform in Norway. The company will, as a subcontractor of Kvaerner, take part in upgrading the platform after operator Statoil exercised an option in an agreement awarded in April 2016. The option is f
NOC Marine Robotics Innovation Centre Welcomes Sonardyne as Full Partner
A year after becoming an associate member of the National Oceanography Centre’s (NOC) Marine Robotics Innovation Centre, Sonardyne has upgraded its membership to become a full partner. Sonardyne’s relationship with the NOC extends back over nearly two decades when it began supplying the NOC’s resear
Kraken, Fraunhofer Ink Licensing Agreement
Kraken Sonar has signed a licensing agreement for underwater robotics technology with Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB). Fraunhofer has developed the Dedave autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) which is an integral part of the agreement. K
Ardyne Boosts Team
Ardyne, provider of specialised plug and abandonment and slot recovery technology and services to the energy industry, has made two new appointments in its technical support division. Duncan Livingstone and David Stewart both come to Ardyne from Schlumberger, and have a combined experience of more t
Royal IHC Training Simulator for Cutter Suction Dredgers
Royal IHC today released a video about the IHC training simulator for cutter suction dredgers (CSDs). According to the company, IHC training simulators are useful for CSD operators in order to advance their dredge process awareness, competences, experience and efficiency without the need to utilise
Another Shah Deniz 2 Jacket Heads Offshore
The quarters and utilities platform jacket has sailed away to the Shah Deniz contract area in the Caspian Sea from the Heydar Aliyev Baku Deepwater Jackets Factory (BDJF). The QU platform jacket weighs approximately 12,084 tonnes and stands 105 metres high. It contains 31 J Tubes, 7 utility caissons
OSIL Modular Vibrocorer for Exploration Electronics
Ocean Scientific International Ltd. (OSIL) have recently supplied Exploration Electronics with a custom built Vibrocorer system for use in their rental pool. The purchase of this system by Exploration Electronics, who specialises in the rental and operation of marine seismic systems, adds to the com
C-Kore’s Subsea Testing Unit Goes to Work in GoM
C-Kore Systems has delivered a C-Kore unit to an unnamed oil and gas company in the Gulf of Mexico. The unit will be used for fault finding on the client’s assets in the Gulf of Mexico. Tim Overfield, managing director of C-Kore said, “We are already working with many of the operators and installati