Equipment
Gallery: SAL Heavy Lift’s MV Frauke wraps up offshore gig
SAL Heavy Lift has informed that the vessel MV Frauke has finalized its long-term engagement for offshore project. The vessel MV Frauke of Type 176 finalized its latest project, for which it had been engaged since July 2014, at the beginning of December 2014. The project consisted of seven phases: –
EU backs LNG use in Mediterranean
The EU’s TEN-T Programme will co-finance with over EUR 2.5 million (USD 3m) studies to support the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as marine fuel in the eastern Mediterranean. EU believes that the economically attractive LNG could help decrease the sulphur content in marine fuels from 3.5% to 0.5
Maven Backs Subsea Firm Fathom Systems
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led the management buy-out of subsea technology company, Fathom Systems Limited. The £4.25 million investment by Maven in the Aberdeenshire business represents the private equity firm’s 15th portfolio company investment in the energy service sector. In the past twe
Ennsub realizes LARS design for ‘Ceona Amazon’
Ennsub has completed the design and manufacture of two innovative workclass remotely operated vehicle (WROV) deployment systems which have been designed and manufactured for ROVOP and are due to be installed into a newbuild, tier one pipelay vessel Ceona Amazon early in 2015. Ennsub reports that a n
Deep C Completes Black Sea Work
Deep C has completed a Mass Flow Excavation and Dredging contract in the Black Sea utilizing their in house designed Deep C Blower. The Deep C blower is an electrically powered Mass Flow Excavation solution with unique capabilities and the ability to be used at considerable water depths. The project
VIDEO: Swire Seabed Excavator
Swire Seabed, acquired by Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO) back in 2012, has just released a short video about the Seabed Excavator in action. The Seabed Excavator is a newly commissioned, highly efficient, multipurpose subsea tool carrier and dredging vehicle capable of working at 2500 meters water dep
Cecon Secures Funds for Third Subsea Vessel
Cecon Shipping 3 AS, a subsidiary of Rever Offshore AS, has secured a USD 35 million senior bond financing deal with York for the purpose of starting the completion of Hull 719, the third in line of Cecon’s 130 meters long SURF subsea construction vessels. To enable an earlier start-up of the Hull 7
VIDEO: Swire Seabed’s Excavator Vehicle in Action
The Seabed Excavator, a multipurpose subsea tool carrier and dredging vehicle, developed by Swire Seabed, is capable of working at 2500 metres water depth. The video shows Seabed Excavator vehicle in action. The system is delivered with a Kongsberg Evotec active heave compensated LARS system, and th
Damen Delivers 3rd FOCSV
Three months after its last delivery, Fugro has received the third of a series of three Fugro Offshore Coastal Survey Vessels (FOCSV) being built by Damen on December 12th 2014. Like her sisters, Fugro Frontier is a compact, diesel-electric FOCSV designed for a variety of tasks. However, Fugro Front
Statoil Gets Oseberg Vestflanke Extension
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway, to use Oseberg Vestflanke beyond its originally planned life. Oseberg Vestflanke is part of the Oseberg field and has been developed using subsea facilities tied back to the Oseberg field centre. The plan for development and op
Shah Deniz gets first DEH system delivery from Nexans
Nexans has provided to BP and its Shah Deniz development project, in the Caspian Sea, the first delivery in what will be, according to Nexans, the world’s largest and most complex Direct Electrical Heating (DEH) system to date. Nexans is supplying a comprehensive subsea DEH system solution including
Energinet.dk Gets Green Light for Kriegers Flak Link
The Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Building has issued investment approval for the units to be erected by Energinet.dk in order to connect the forthcoming offshore wind turbines at Kriegers Flak in the Baltic Sea to the onshore electricity grid. The approval allows Energinet.dk to enter int
Bowtech Hosts Delegation from Japan
Bowtech Products, a provider of subsea vision systems, welcomed a delegation from Japan to their Aberdeen Headquarters. The delegation was led by Yoshihiko Ikumura, president of Marimex Japan K.K. and included colleagues from Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and Nippon
News in Photos: DEME Dredgers at Piombino
Dredging works to remove about 3.000.000 m3 of material from Piombino Harbor are currently underway. These works, undertaken by DEME Group, are included in the project for the realization of facilities and environmental interventions aimed to the improvement and the industrial competitiveness of the