Project & Tenders
Premier Oil Looks to Utilize OPT PowerBuoy for Decom Ops
Ocean Power Technologies has signed an agreement with Premier Oil to study the feasibility of using the PB3 PowerBuoy for decommissioning operations in the North Sea. The contract outlines work that will determine the viability of using the PB3 for monitoring and guarding remaining wells and subsea
Contract Signed for First Dual-Fuel Dredger in France
Atlantic Port of Bordeaux, the EIG Dragages Ports and the SOCARENAM shipyard have just signed a contract for the construction of the water injection dredger running on LNG. This innovative and eco-efficient dredger will replace the grab hopper dredger “La Maqueline” in the summer of 2019. Atlantic P
NMDC’s New Dredger ARZANA Starts Sea Trials
Royal IHC has begun sea trials for the recently launched 6,000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) ARZANA. The vessel is owned by National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC) from Abu Dhabi and has been specially designed to operate in high ambient temperatures. Over the next couple of days, IHC eng
Aker Solutions Nets Troll and Askeladd Subsea Deals from Statoil
Aker Solutions has secured contracts from Statoil to provide subsea production systems and services for the Troll Phase 3 and Askeladd natural-gas developments offshore Norway. The company will deliver a subsea production system consisting of two manifolds and nine trees for the Troll development in
PHOTO: Aker Solutions wraps up one of its deepest subsea installations
Oilfield services provider Aker Solutions has installed its first subsea manifold for Petrobras’ deepwater pre-salt fields.
UTEC Nets Saudi Arabia Contracts; Names New Business Unit Director
UTEC, an Acteon company, has secured multiple geophysical survey contracts in Saudi Arabia in conjunction with its in Kingdom partner, Zamil Offshore. The contracts which include multiple work-sites are for geophysical surveys in the Safiniyah, Marjan and Zuluf fields, offshore Saudi Arabia. UTEC wi
Gazprom gets permit to lay the second string of TurkStream pipeline
Russian company Gazprom has received a construction permit to lay the second string of the TurkStream offshore gas pipeline.
Shoreham Scheme Passes Midpoint Milestone
With 50% of the work on the Shoreham Adur Tidal Walls scheme now complete, construction is expected to finish by the end of 2018. The project is being carried out by Team Van Oord (TVO) on behalf of the Environment Agency, Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership, Adur District Council and West
Sod Cutting Ceremony for the Boston Barrier Project
Floods Minister Thérèse Coffey has marked the start of works on the £100 million Boston Barrier flood defense, breaking ground on an Environment Agency scheme that will protect 14,000 homes and businesses from tidal flooding. Work is already underway to dredge more than 5,000 cubic meters of silt fr
Nauticor pens LNG supply deal with Destination Gotland
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplier, Nauticor, part of the Linde Group, signed a deal with Destination Gotland to supply the chilled fuel in Sweden.
Imenco Bags Hornsea Project One Corrosion Protection Deal
Imenco Corrosion Technology has been awarded a contract to deliver equipment for corrosion protection (cathodic protection) of the offshore wind farm – Hornsea Project One off the Yorkshire coast in UK. The contract has been awarded by Ørsted Wind Power – the world’s largest developer and operator o
Imenco to Keep Hornsea One Corrosion Free
Ørsted has awarded Norway’s Imenco Corrosion Technology AS with a contract to deliver equipment for cathodic corrosion protection of the 1.2GW Hornsea Project One wind farm off the Yorkshire coast in the UK.
DeepOcean Wins Nord Stream 2 Ploughing Works
DeepOcean has been awarded a contract for performing ploughing operations on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea. The Nord Stream 2 Project concerns the construction of an offshore natural gas transmission system comprising of two 1,220 km pipelines from the Russian Baltic Sea to the German
Group Ocean Orders Two Damen Vessels
Recently, at the New Orleans Workboat Festival in the United States, Damen Shipyards Group signed a contract with Canada-based Group Ocean for the delivery of two Modular Multi Cats 1205. The vessels, which are made of standard, container sized units for easy transportation anywhere in the world, wi