Equipment
Photo: Clair Ridge QUID module ready to set sail to Clair field (UK)
Heerema Marine Contractors has informed through its social media page that the Clair Ridge QUID module has been lifted onto Dockwise’s Black Marlin vessel. Topside modules for the Clair Ridge development are being built in HHI fabrication facility in Ulsan, Korea. According to Heerema, the vessel is
Rolls-Royce to Power World’s First Seabed Mining Ship
Rolls-Royce has secured a landmark agreement to supply six of its new B33:45 medium-speed diesel generator sets to China’s Fuijan Mawei shipyard for configuration aboard the world’s first ever seabed mining vessel. The pioneering vessel, designed by Singapore’s SeaTech Solutions for Dubai-based owne
TSC Inks ACFM Equipment Deal with N-Sea
TSC Inspection and Aberdeen-based subsea IMR specialists N-Sea Offshore have signed a two-year frame agreement covering the supply of subsea diver deployed ACFM® Products, Technical Support and Operator Competency training. “We are pleased to continue working with N-Sea directly, building on last ye
AMBAU Bags ‘Nordsee One’ Job
Nordsee One GmbH of Hamburg has contracted AMBAU GmbH to design and produce 54 monopiles and transition pieces for „Nordsee One“ project. Starting in June 2015, 54 monopiles and transition pieces for the “Nordsee One”project will be produced in the AMBAU facilities in Bremen and Cuxhaven on behalf o
Kilrush Marina Dredging Scheduled for April
Work on lock gates at Kilrush Marina on the Shannon Estuary was completed this month, just in time for the first sail of the year over St Patricks weekend. “Also the long awaited news we have all been waiting for on the dredging application, has finally come through, with the licence approval being
CIRIA’s C751 and C752 Available
CIRIA’s new guidance Communication and engagement in local flood risk management (C751) and Communication and engagement in local flood risk management techniques the companion guide (C752) are now available. Local authorities have the responsibility for managing local flood risk (often defined as s
Van Heck Supplies Pumps for New Port Project
Van Heck Group will supply eight HK700 pumps to Hyundai Engineering & Construction for phase three of the New Port Project in Qatar. The pumps will be used, for a scheduled period of 20 to 30 weeks, to return the process water used in dredging through a series of sedimentation ponds back to the open
Dolphin mobilizes ‘Sanco Sword’ for Ophir (Myanmar)
Dolphin has just mobilised what it claims to be 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 Plc. This configuration of equipment has a moving width of 1.850
Wärtsilä opens manufacturing plant in Brazil
Wärtsilä’s first unit at Porto do Açu in São João da Barra (RJ), Brazil, is today being inaugurated. This will be the first assembly plant and production unit for generator sets and azimuth thrusters in Brazil for Wärtsilä, a Finland-based provider of power generation solutions and services for ship
Norske Shell Hires IKM Subsea for IMR and ROV Services
IKM Subsea has been awarded a 5 + 5 year contract by Norske Shell to provide IMR and ROV services The contract value including options is in the region 150 million NOK and duration term is firm for 5 years + 5 yearly options. Hans Fjellanger, Business Development Manager at IKM Subsea, says: “This i
Plexus Secures Purchase Order for POS-SET Connector
Plexus Holdings secured a purchase order to supply and rent its new product POS-SET Connector™ utilising POS-GRIP friction grip engineering, to be used by Centrica Energy Exploration and Production for abandonment operations on a gas well originally drilled 32 years ago in 1982 offshore Holland. Thi
Yokogawa gets to work on Petronas’ second FLNG
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its affiliate, Yokogawa Kontrol (Malaysia), has received an order from a consortium comprising JGC Corporation (Japan) and Samsung Heavy Industries (South Korea) that will supply control systems and safety instrumented systems for PETRONAS’s second floati
Anholt Subsea Cable Fixed
Damage on the export subsea cable of Anholt offshore wind farm in Denmark has been repaired and the operations on the 400MW wind farm are back on track. The repairs of the damaged cable took four weeks and two days, after the defect was detected on February 21. Over the weekend, the last part of the
KrisEnergy kicks off seismic shoot off Vietnam
KrisEnergy, an independent upstream oil and gas company, has announced that the CGG Amadeus vessel has started a 570 sq. km. 3D seismic acquisition program in the Block 120 exploration acreage offshore central Vietnam. Block 120 covers 6,869 sq. km overlying the Quang Ngai Graben and the Tri Ton Hor