Equipment
DeepOcean Axes UK Jobs
The subsea firm DeepOcean UK has confirmed it is entering into a statutory period of redundancy consultation with a number of its UK staff, based in its operations in the North East of England. According to DeepOcean, the consultation will affect 45 members of staff, the majority of which are based
Dredging at Lamma Power Station Underway
An emergency dredging operation of the Lamma Power Station Navigation Channel has officially started. A small fleet of vessels, including two grab dredgers, four hopper barges, two tugs and one survey boat, is deployed in the area, according to the Hong Kong Marine Department. The number of vessels
Technip nets two Stone Energy deals
Technip has been awarded by Stone Energy Corporation both a flexible pipe supply contract and an installation contract for the Amethyst field, located on Mississippi Canyon 26, in the Gulf of Mexico. The first contract includes the detailed engineering, procurement, fabrication, assembly and testing
HMAS Success Supports Argo Program
During their transit to the Middle East in November and December 2014, the crew of HMAS Success assisted the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation with their global Argo program. This innovative project aims to gather up ocean data using robotic floats. Success supported this
MacArtney Connectivity for North Sea UFO
Spearheaded by oceanographic experts from German Group Operations MBT, MacArtney has delivered the full connectivity package for the innovative UFO (Underwater Fish Observatory) which was recently deployed in the North Sea. Realised through successful cooperation between the Hamburg based Thünen Ins
Huisman’s Cranes for Maersk’s Subsea Support Vessels
Huisman secured a contract from COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard for the delivery of four customized 400mt Rope Luffing Knuckle Boom Cranes and two 100mt Knuckle Boom Cranes onboard four new subsea support vessels (SSVs) for Maersk Supply Service. The first vessels, Marin Teknikk design MT 6027, are schedule
Scientists Develop Drone Submarines Through SUNRISE Project
Engineers in the Portuguese town of Porto are working on SUNRISE, an European research project developing drone submarines, which talk to each other using sound signals. Computer Science Professor Chiara Petrioli is the project coordinator: “What you see here are underwater robots that are able to c
Carnegie Installs Second CETO 5 Unit Off Australia
Carnegie Wave Energy’s second CETO 5 wave energy unit has been successfully installed and is operating at its Perth Wave Energy Project site off Garden Island, Western Australia. The second CETO 5 unit was successfully installed in one day and has now been operating for a little over a week, the com
Okeanus Boosts Rental Portfolio
Okeanus Science and Technology (Okeanus) has strengthened its fleet of oceanographic and marine scientific rental equipment, with the addition of three types of DT Marine winches. The winches can be outfitted with various types of cable and synthetic rope to perform nearly any job requiring the laun
ERRV VOS Faithful on its way to North Sea
Vroon has informed that the vessel VOS Faithful left Jiangsu Islands Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd. in Nanjing, China, earlier today, January 27, 2015. VOS Faithful is a 50m ERRV (emergency response and rescue vessel) and the fourth in a ten-vessel newbuilding programme, with six 50m ERRVs being bu
Huisman cranes onboard four Maersk SSVs
Huisman, a specialist in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions, secured a contract from COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard for the delivery of four customized 400mt Rope Luffing Knuckle Boom Cranes and two 100mt Knuckle Boom Cranes onboard four new subsea support vessels (SSVs) for Maersk Supply Service. The
PSA looks into Gina Krog jacket fabrication
From 15 to 17 December 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway carried out an audit of the jacket fabrication for Gina Krog. The Gina Krog jacket, destined for Statoil’s Gina Krog field development in the North Sea, is under construction at the Heerema yard in Vlissingen, The Netherlands.
Hulhumale Phase II Reclamation Kicks Off
DEME’s Dredging International has started the land reclamation works of the Phase II project on the Maldives island Hulhumalé. The project will add another 240 ha of new land to the island. The works include borrowing offshore sand and pumping it ashore. The required volume, around 6 million m³ of s
OneSubsea’s Equipment on Chevron’s Jack and St. Malo Fields
OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger company, supplied the subsea production and processing systems for Chevron’s Jack and St. Malo fields. Jack and St. Malo fields, located in Gulf of Mexico, achieved first oil last month. The fields are located within 25 miles (40 km) of each other and are approx