Equipment
Kongsberg Delivers Hugin AUV Training to Indonesian Navy
Kongsberg Maritime’s Marine Robotics department has provided a three-week training of Hugin AUV systems set up on Indonesian Navy’s new survey ship program. The introduction training was conducted at a hotel in Central Jakarta, and the last week was at sea in Semangka Bay for practical training down
Global Marine Secures Extension with Atlantic Cable Maintenance Agreement
Global Marine Systems has been awarded the renewal of the Atlantic Cable Maintenance Agreement (ACMA), alongside its Atlantic partner for maintenance services, Orange Marine. The new contract began on January 1, 2017, and runs for five years, through to December 2021. ACMA is a non-profit cooperativ
Subsea Innovation Delivers Two HPUs to Saipem
Subsea Innovation has completed the design, manufacture and testing of two Hydraulic Power Units (HPU) for Saipem America. The HPUs will be installed on board the Saipem Castorone pipe laying vessel. Saipem Castorone is designed for installation of large-diameter pipelines in deep and ultra-deep wat
DeepOcean to Install East Anglia ONE Export Cables
DeepOcean has been awarded cable installation and trenching work by Nexans for ScottishPower Renewable’s East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Offshore work will be undertaken by 2019 with the Maersk Connector and purpose built power cable plough, ACP2, supported by DeepOcean’s in-hou
MDL Sends Pipelay Tensioner to Asia Pacific
Maritime Developments (MDL) has dispatched the new 4-track pipelay tensioner to Asia Pacific, after securing the first job for the system with an undisclosed offshore contractor. The portable 110-tonne unit will be used for an umbilical installation in the Indian Ocean, to transition 28km of product
Atlas Copco Agrees to Acquire Erkat
Atlas Copco has agreed to acquire Erkat Spezialmaschinen und Service GmbH, a Germany based manufacturer of drum cutter attachments for excavators. “Drum cutters are an ideal complementary product for Atlas Copco as a solution provider in rock excavation, tunnel and foundation profiling and demolitio
Quintillion Selects Ciena for Phase1 – Alaska Subsea Network
Quintillion is deploying Ciena’s 8700 Packetwave Platform to support the first phase of its 15,000-kilometer intercontinental subsea fiber system that is planned to connect Europe and Asia by way of the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. Quintillion’s Phase1 network build in Alaska will connect Nome and P
Nexans to Supply Cables for East Anglia ONE OWF
ScottishPower Renewables has chosen Nexans to supply submarine cables for the 714 MW East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm. Nexans will supply and install two 85 km 3-core submarine cables with embedded fibre optics, as well as accompanying accessories, for the wind farm in the North Sea. The contract
Seaborn, Megaport in South American Alliance
Megaport, a provider of elastic interconnection services, intends to enter into a global platform & licensing agreement with Seaborn Networks, the developer-owner-operator of submarine fiber optic cable system Seabras-1. As a result of this strategic alliance, Seaborn will have an out-of-the-box sof
ACE Winches to Axe UK Jobs
ACE Winches has advised its employees of potential headcount reductions at its UK facilities in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. The company is currently in consultation with its staff and said it is making every effort to mitigate any potential impact on its employees. As a result of this process it is anti
Van Oord, Seajacks Win East Anglia One Foundations Setup Project
ScottishPower Renewables has contracted marine engineering specialist Van Oord and Great Yarmouth-based Seajacks to transport and install the foundation jackets on the East Anglia One offshore wind farm. The main installation vessel will be Seajacks Scylla. The contract should support 140 current po
HR Wallingford VIDEO: Designing Aberdeen Harbor Expansion
In a wave basin, in its physical modelling laboratories in Oxfordshire, HR Wallingford’s engineers have built a scaled model of the proposed new Aberdeen Harbor. HR Wallingford has been involved in the project from its initial concept stages in 2010, and will be working with Aberdeen Harbor Board ri
PHOTO: Delaware River Dredging and Rock Blasting
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its contractor Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company are conducting rock blasting operations on the Delaware River. The Corps just released this photo of the clamshell dredger No. 54 during the removal of rock fragments from areas where blasting operations have alrea
Prysmian Hooks Up Veja Mate to Borwin2
Prysmian informed that the interconnection between the Veja Mate offshore wind farm and the offshore grid connection system Borwin2 in the German North Sea has been successfully plugged in. The project was awarded to Prysmian by TenneT, the Dutch-German transmission system operator (TSO). Assodivers