Equipment
New Equipment for Jenkins Marine
Jenkins Marine, a company engaged in vessel charter, dredging and facilities management, purchased recently two new deck barges, JML50 and JML18. Originally built and operated in Holland by Neptune Marine, well known in work boats for the offshore and dredging markets, JML50 has dimensions of 50m x
Plexus signs collaboration agreement with COSL, RST, Jereh
Plexus Holdings PLC has announced a collaboration agreement with China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL), Red Sea Technologies Ltd (RST), and Plexus’ Chinese licensing partner Yantai Jereh Oilfield Services Group (Jereh). According to Plexus, the collaboration agreement will explore commercial opport
Bibby Offshore boasts successful 1H in Asia
Bibby Offshore’s Asian division, Bibby Offshore Singapore (BOS), has expanded its foothold in the Southeast Asian oil and gas sector by securing multimillion dollars worth of contracts in the first half of 2015. Drawing on its international fleet of subsea support vessels and work class ROVs, the pa
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (June 29 – July 05). Italian contractor, Saipem, has relased an animation of its future fleet addition, the offshore subsea construction vessel Normand Maximus. With Normand Maximus, the Italian contra
VIDEO: New Knoop Baggerwerken’s Project
Knoop Baggerwerken BV, a Dutch-based company specialized in wetlands dredging operations, has won a major restoration contract in the “Nieuwkoopse Plassen” (Nature Reserve) area, located in the western Netherlands. The contract, worth over $1 million, is part of the LIFE-Project “New LIFE for Dutch
KICT Inks Partnership with Deltares
The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Deltares. The first joint project of KICT and Deltares is entitled ‘the interaction between vegetation patchiness and river hydraulics: linking field, flume and model to reduce uncer
Gallery: Statoil installs world’s first subsea wet gas compressor
Norwegian oil and gas major Statoil has informed that after several years of technology development, construction and testing, the first subsea wet gas compressor in the world is now installed at Statoil’s Gullfaks C platform in the North Sea. Statoil informed in March that the world’s first subsea
Johan Sverdrup awards for Fjords Processing
Norway’s Fjords Processing, a company independent since the separation from Aker Solutions in September 2014, has won three contracts for the deliveries of process systems for the Johan Sverdrup development in the North Sea. The company signed the contracts with Statoil on behalf of the Johan Sverdr
Picture of the Day: IMS Dredge for Lake Lotawana
The launch of a brand new 2015 Model 7012 HP Versi-Dredge at Buffalo Cove took place recently at Lake Lotawana. In attendance was Dave Wagner, Dredge Committee Chairperson, outgoing Mayor, David Welsh and Ward III Alderman, David Tillema as well as IMS President, Jim Horton, IMS Vice President, Ryan
EnerMech gets BP extension
EnerMech has been awarded a 12 month extension of a five year cranes and lifting contract by BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltd. The contract, which includes a further two one-year options, will see mechanical engineering group EnerMech continue to provide cranes operation and maintenance personnel, m
Gode Wind 2 Foundations in Position
GeoSea has successfully installed all 42 positions for Gode Wind 2 and already 6 monopiles for Gode Wind 1. Using a combination of the IHC IQIP Hydrohammer S-3000 and newly developed NMS-8000 together with a big bubble curtain, all piles have been realized on time and within German underwater noise
Comments Invited for Tesoro Terminal
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking public review and comment on a proposal by Tesoro Savage Petroleum Terminal, LLC, to construct an oil export terminal located in the Columbia River at the Port of Vancouver, in Clark County, Washington. Comments will be accepted until August 1, 2015. In Fe
Subsea 7 to work on emergency pipeline repair system for INPEX and Chevron
Subsea 7 S.A. today announced the award of four contracts by Chevron and INPEX Operations Australia Pty Ltd (as operator of the Ichthys LNG Project), for the engineering, procurement and construction of an Emergency Pipeline Repair System (EPRS) to be used offshore Australia. This EPRS project consi
Finland to Revamp RV Aranda
Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) has informed that the marine research vessel Aranda will be renovated to meet the needs of future marine research in the Baltic Sea. According to SYKE, the renovation reduces the vessel’s operating costs, increases its energy efficiency and reduces its emissions.