Equipment
Subsea trees for BP’s first subsea field development reach T&T
Oil major BP announced on Thursday that all five subsea trees required for the Juniper project have arrived in Trinidad and Tobago. The Juniper project is BP’s first subsea field development, located 50 miles off the south east coast of Trinidad. The subsea tree is a complex configuration of valves
ABB to Connect Hornsea Project One to UK Grid
ABB has won an order worth more than $250 million from Danish DONG Energy to deliver a 220-kilovolt (kV) high-voltage cable system to connect the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm to the UK mainland grid. Hornsea Project One will be capable of generating 1.2 gigawatts of renewable energy and br
New Subsea Cable Connecting Perth to Singapore Announced
Singtel, SubPartners, and Telstra have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build a new international submarine cable, APX-West, connecting Perth and Singapore. The new APX-West submarine cable is expected to begin construction by the end of July 2016 and is scheduled to be completed
South-East Asia Japan Cable Gets Third Capacity Boost
TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity company, has signed a contract to perform its third network upgrade to the South-East Asia Japan Cable (SJC) System. Utilizing TE SubCom’s 100 Gb/s coherent transmission technology (C100U+), this third upgrade increases the capacity by 6.3 Tb/s. The SJC System links Brun
IKM Subsea set for IMR work on Shell’s field duo
IKM Subsea’s remotely operated vehicle Merlin UCV, integrated on to Siem Offshore’s platform supply vessel Siem Pride, is set to start the IMR work on Shell’s Ormen Lange and Draugen fields in the Norwegian Sea. Norske Shell has awarded IKM Subsea a 5 + 5 year contract in 2015, and the work will beg
Mermaid Maritime nets subsea gig in Gulf of Thailand
Mermaid Maritime has announced that it has been awarded a subsea remotely operated vehicle (ROV) services contract in the Gulf of Thailand with an upstream oil & gas company. The contract was awarded to Mermaid Maritime’s subsidiary Mermaid Subsea Services (Thailand). The scope of work includes, but
Pharos Offshore Upgrades Its Subsea Excavation Tooling
Pharos Offshore have designed and built a customized articulation and ballast frame for their SeaVex range of subsea controlled flow excavation (CFE) systems. The new design will allow the SeaVex CFE’s to target excavate products in the vertical plain or at an angle of up to 45° during excavation op
Cinia, ASN Push C-Lion1 to New Speeds
Finland’s Cinia and Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) have completed tests on the C-Lion1 submarine cable system demonstrating a record-breaking capacity of 18 Tbit/s of data per fiber pair. Finland gave a go-ahead for the C-Lion1 submarine data cable across the Baltic Sea in November 2014. Th
New 18-Inch Shark Class from DSC Dredge
DSC Dredge is about to release a brand-new 18-inch Shark Class Dredge that will be available in April 2016. The Shark is a popular conventional cutter suction dredge from DSC, ideal for sand and gravel producers and construction contractors. Its rugged design offers the full features of larger dredg
Badger Explorer Moves to IRIS Building
Norway’s Badger Explorer (BXPL) informed that the company has moved its administration and workshop to new facilities located at the International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS) building. BXPL has also recently appointed Øystein Larsen as the new chief executive officer to succeeded Steinar
Bakker Sliedrecht Works on the World’s Largest Cutter Suction Dredger
Bakker Sliedrecht – designer and producer of electric machines and equipment – is now part of the mega-project to build the world’s largest cutter suction dredger for Jan De Nul Group. The company has been involved in this project from the very beginning, brainstorming with Jan De Nul about the elec
WATCH: WHOI Beefs Up Its ROV
Engineers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), have upgraded the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason, and increased the vehicle’s payload and range of activities and streamlined the its operation. This, $2.4 million worth, 12-month-long projec was funded by the National Science Foundati
GeoSea Puts New IHC Hydrohammer to Work
IHC IQIP has launched its new S-4000 Hydrohammer pile-driving system. Reportedly, the Royal IHC business unit’s latest development in hydraulic impact hammers is the largest available on the market, and enables the installation of offshore foundations in even the toughest ground conditions with the
CIS Names New Managing Director
Conductor Installation Services (CIS), a member of Acteon’s conductors, risers and flowlines group, has appointed James Chadd as its new Managing Director. As of April 1, 2016, Chadd will be responsible for overseeing the fulfilment of all strategic initiatives, as well as driving day-to-day executi