Equipment
Picture of the Day: DEME Equipment in Egypt
The New Suez Canal development scheme is progressing well and is scheduled to be completed this August. The opening of the new waterway will almost double the Suez Canal capacity and is expected to increase annual revenues to $13.5 billion by 2023. The project was launched by the Chairman of the Sue
Fire Island Dredging Resumes
H&L Contracting resumed dredging operations at Watch Hill on Fire Island this week, according to the National Park Service. The project, aimed at maintaining safe, public access to marina and docking facilities impacted by Hurricane Sandy, was stalled in early January due to severe winter weather an
Kraken Sonar for Fraunhofer AUV
Kraken Sonar Systems has delivered a deep-sea rated Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar (INSAS) system to Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technology and Image Exploitation (IOSB). Under the terms of the contract, Kraken has designed, engineered and delivered a 6,000m depth
Carnegie Eyes South American Projects
Wave energy developer Carnegie has provided an update to its activities in South America including the signing of an Agency Agreement with MAK Industrial Water Solutions (MAK Water) to act as their exclusive agent for South America. Carnegie has been investigating opportunities in South America gene
STATS Group Pipeline Isolation Tools Get DNV GL Approval
Pipeline engineering specialist STATS Group has received the DNV GL seal of approval for its Tecno Plug and BISEP range of pipeline isolation tools. DNV GL has issued certificate P-15082 for the 3-48” range for both Tecno Plugs and BISEPs. Obtaining type approval from DNV GL ensures clients that STA
Marinex Inks Morehead Dredging Contract
Efforts to resolve the critical channel maintenance issues at the Port of Morehead City reached a major milestone when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract for maintenance dredging. The contract, awarded last week, is worth approximately $7.9 million and was awarded to Marinex Constru
EMGS sells Barents Sea data
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has won new contracts in Norway, worth $4 million. The company has entered into two new data licensing agreements with two oil companies for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS’ multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. EMGS has said that the agreements a
DNV GL: Operators should test their cybersecurity
According to DNV GL, ships and offshore structures are increasingly dependent on programmable control systems. These integrated and networked solutions provide an ever-larger target for cyber threats, DNV GL said. “In theory, all programmable components may be exposed to cyber threats, be it machine
Benthic wins Sea Lion geotechnical investigation gig
Benthic, a global geosciences company, has been awarded a contract by Carnarvon Hibiscus Pty Ltd (CHPL), a subsidiary of Hibiscus Petroleum, for an offshore geotechnical investigation in the Sea Lion Field off the coast of South Eastern Australia in the Bass Strait. Operating from a client issued ve
SpeedCast to enhance connectivity for ConocoPhillips’ Bayu-Undan field
SpeedCast International Limited (SpeedCast), a global telecommunications service provider, has been awarded a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract for delivery of satellite communications services by ConocoPhillips. With this latest contract, SpeedCast will increase the primary satellite commun
Plexus to bring POS-GRIP technology to Chinese market
Plexus Holdings has entered into a Framework Agreement with Yantai Jereh Oilfield Services Group Co., Ltd. (Jereh) and the two parties will now work together to formalise a binding license agreement to enable Jereh to manufacture and sell Plexus’ wellhead equipment to the Chinese and wider Asian oil
ASV Gains R&D Funds
Based near Portsmouth in the UK, ASV Ltd, in partnership with nine other commercial and research organisations, has been awarded funding by Innovate UK to undertake in excess of £3 million worth of research and development for Maritime Autonomous Systems (MAS). Three separate projects involving ASV
Dolphin Deploys 12 Streamer Seismic Spread in Myanmar
Dolphin has just mobilised the ‘world’s largest floating object’ by deploying a seismic spread of 12 streamers, 7,050 meters in length with 150 meters streamer separation, off the coast of Myanmar for Ophir Energy. This configuration of equipment has a moving width of 1.850 meters and the seismic sp
APT Global: Major Role in Project for Van Oord
APT Global, a Dubai-based manufacturer and technical service provider in marine, dredging, offshore and oil and gas industries, has played a major role in construction and installation of 5MW land based booster station “Al Jabbar” for Van Oord. After fabrication and machining of the 50t foundation s