Equipment
KENC Oil & Gas moves to new premises to meet offshore industry demand
KENC Oil & Gas, specialists in the design, fabrication and supply of custom engineered equipment, will move to new, larger premises to meet growing demand from the on and offshore industries. From mid-July, KENC’s new headquarters will be at a 450m2 facility nearby the company’s existing address in
The Netherlands: Deltares Introduces Global Flood Risk with IMAGE Scenarios
Many developing countries have no adequate tools for an efficient flood risk management. With the increasing availability of large scale datasets, and new generations of weather and flood forecasting models, tools for assessing floods risk at the large scale are currently being developed. Recently,
Tennet Gets Planning Approval for Subsea Cable NordLink
The Office for Energy Planning Approval of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has issued a planning approval decision for the first section of NordLink interconnector, a planned submarine cable from Norway to Germany. “With this decision, the next important component of the future power system h
Sif Group Gets Dudgeon OWF Monopile Foundation Fabrication Contract
The Dudgeon Wind Farm Limited has awarded the contract for the Monopile Foundation Fabrication for its Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm to Sif Group B.V. The contract covers the procurement, fabrication and assembly of 67 monopiles (MPs) and 67 transition pieces (TPs), including transportation to the Dudg
Eni’s new supercomputer put to work
Italian oil company Eni has put into operation its second major High Performance Computer system. The new supercomputer has an innovative approach based on the usage of accelerators to implement a so called “hybrid cluster architecture‘. It comprises 1500 IBM iDataPlex dx360 M4 nodes, built on more
Countdown Begins for Costa Concordia Refloating
Installation of the last sponson, P1, on the port side of the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia has been completed as planned. All sponsons are now in position. Now, ahead of authorization from the Monitoring Observatory, technicians can start to test all the systems for the final refloating
Canusa-CPS clinches South Stream contract with Saipem
ShawCor Ltd. announced today that its field-applied pipeline coatings and services division, Canusa-CPS, has received a contract with a value of approximately Cdn $30 million from Saipem SpA to provide field joint coating services for Line 1 of the South Stream Offshore Pipeline. The South Stream Of
NDM acquires Shalk Engineering
Norwegian Deck Machinery AS (NDM) have entered into an agreement with the majority shareholders in Shalk Engineering to transfer their shares and to integrate their products into the NDM’s portfolio. Shalk Engineering will be re-named to Norwegian Deck Machinery Ulsteinvik AS (NDM Ulsteinvik). Sha
SeaBotix ROV Surveys AE2 Submarine Wreck
SeaBotix ROV has entered and recorded the interior of Gallipoli’s AE2 submarine, sunk almost a century ago. SeaBotix custom designed vLBV assisted the first archaeological expedition of Australian scientists and historians to enter and record the interior of the HMAS AE2 submarine lying in 72 meters
France: Le Havre Implements CARIS Bathy DataBASE
After taking part in a competitive tender process, CARIS announces that Le Havre in France has chosen to implement CARIS Bathy DataBASE and Spatial Fusion Enterprise for the management and distribution of their bathymetric data. The harbour of Le Havre, or Grand Port Maritime du Havre, is located in
CARIS’ Software Selected by Le Havre Harbour
After taking part in a competitive tender process, CARIS has announced that Le Havre in France has chosen to implement CARIS Bathy DataBASE and Spatial Fusion Enterprise for the management and distribution of their bathymetric data. The harbour of Le Havre, or Grand Port Maritime du Havre, is locate
AGR secures software contract with Petronas
Global oil and gas service company based in Norway, AGR, has been awarded a software contract with Malaysian oil and gas company, PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd (PCSB). Valued at over $1 million, the contract signals a three year partnership with an option to extend for a further two years between AGR an
Technip Bags Edradour Subsea Gig from Total
Technip has been awarded a contract by Total E&P UK for the Edradour Subsea Development, located approximately 75 kilometers North West of the Shetland Islands, in approximately 300 meters of water. Technip’s scope of work covers the: – fabrication and installation of 12” production pipelines, 6” ME
Transocean wins court case in Norway
Transocean Ltd., an international offshore drilling contractor, has announced that the District Court in Oslo, Norway yesterday ruled in a criminal case relating to criminal charges issued by Norwegian authorities against three of the Company’s subsidiaries for Norwegian tax returns filed for the ye