Equipment
Hydro Group Boosts Portfolio with New Investment
Aberdeen based, Hydro Group Plc has boosted its portfolio with state-of-the-art machinery, following a £300,000 investment. The company has installed and commissioned an advanced armouring line at its facility in Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, enabling the company to offer cable products which will improv
Heerema Cuts Steel for Culzean WHP Jacket
Maersk Oil and Heerema Fabrication Group have cut the first steel plate for the Culzean WHP jacket at the official ceremony held at Heerema Vlissingen yard. The jacket for the WHP is the first to be constructed and installed in range of the Culzean field and will be approximately 114 m tall with a f
Tata Communications Invests in Seabras-1
Tata Communications and Seaborn Networks have announced Tata Communications’ investment for purchase of significant capacity in Seaborn Networks’ cable system between Brazil and US. Genius Wong, Senior Vice President, Global Network Services, Tata Communications says: “Latin America is a key emergin
Advanced Navigation Launches Subsonus USBL
Advanced Navigation has announced the release of their Subsonus USBL underwater acoustic positioning system. Subsonus is a next generation USBL underwater acoustic positioning system that provides high accuracy position, velocity and heading at depths of up to 1000 metres. The system features calibr
Picture of the Day: Ice Harbor Dredging
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wrapped up federal navigation channel dredging at Ice Harbor Lock and Dam on January 14. Ice Harbor lock operations have returned to normal and dredging equipment has been removed, including water quality monitoring buoys, and relocated upstream to work areas in the
Bibby Athena Set to Arrive in UK
Osiris Projects latest custom-build vessel Bibby Athena is due to arrive in the UK for the first time in the next few days. Built by French shipbuilders Socarenam, the vessel was constructed to the same high specifications as the company’s successful Semi-SWATH catamaran Bibby Tethra launched in 201
Heerema starts construction of Culzean jacket
Heerema Fabrication Group and Maersk Oil on Friday, January 16, held a ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Culzean Wellhead Platform jacket. The ceremony, where the first steel plate was cut for the Culzean WHP jacket was held at Heerema Vlissingen yard in the Netherlands. Culzean is a
Boskalis: Latest Addition to Its Hopper Fleet
The naming ceremony of the Freeway, the newest addition to Boskalis’ hopper dredging fleet, was held on Friday, announced Beleef Boskalis on their official facebook page. The Freeway, a medium-sized hopper dredger with a capacity of 4,500 m³, will be taken into service in 2015. More info will follow
Claxton boosts riser stock for heavy-duty jack-ups
Claxton, an Acteon company, is extending its large surface riser inventory to meet operators’ needs as more heavy-duty jack-up rigs enter the North Sea. The company, which already has more than 560 feet of rapid call-off surface riser stock, is adding new joints in the size and pressure required to
SeaBird gets LoI for seismic survey in W. Africa
SeaBird Exploration Plc has received a letter of intent for the Northern Explorer vessel for a 2D seismic survey in West Africa. The survey size is approximately 1,700 km with an estimated value of $1.3 million. According to the company, the project is expected to start in February 2015 and will hav
Motive Offshore Invests in Safety
Motive Offshore, headquartered in Boyndie, Aberdeenshire, has implemented a new safety and lean production scheme called 6S, to improve efficiency and safety in the work environment. The firm, which was established in 2010 by James Gregg, Dave Acton and Bob Smit, will utilise the Japanese developed
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (January 12 – January 18). GE Oil & Gas and McDermott International have launched io oil & gas consulting, a new independent venture to transform the development of front-end solutions for offshore fie
Highlights of the Week – Readers’ Choice
DEME: Dredging Simulator, New Office Building The Flemish Minister-President Geert Bourgeois has laid the foundation stone of the new DEME office building in Zwijndrecht. He also put into operation the brand-new high-tech dredging simulator. VIDEO: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mud Dredger The biggest scien
Alcatel-Lucent to Boost ACE Submarine Link
Alcatel-Lucent and the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) consortium have successfully completed a field trial on the existing ACE system, which connects France to the west coast of Africa, based on 300 gigabit-per-second (Gbit/s) and 400 Gbit/s technology. They achieved a breakthrough transmission of 12.