Project & Tenders
Wood Group Scoops Alexandroupolis FEED
Wood Group has secured a new front end engineering design (FEED) contract with Gastrade S.A. for the Alexandroupolis Independent Natural Gas System (INGS) offshore Greece. The project, to develop a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving, storage and regasification unit (FSRU), should create
Heerema completes Vestflanken 2 platform construction. Sends topside, jacket to Norway
Heerema Fabrication Group has completed the construction of the topside for the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 Unmanned Wellhead Platform with the sail away ceremony held on Sunday, June 25. The jacket followed on Monday, June 26. Statoil awarded Heerema the contract for the engineering, construction, transp
DOF Subsea to Survey Transmediterranean Pipeline
DOF Subsea has recently signed a new contract in the Mediterranean with Transmediterranean Pipeline Company (TMPC) to undertake the pipeline inspection on the TMPC’s pipeline system. The inspection is planned to take place in Q3, 2017, the company informed. The scope involves inspection of 5 submari
Hydro Group Partners with Turkish IMCA Electronics
Hydro Group has increased its global presence with the announcement of its partnership with Turkish firm, IMCA Electronics. Complementing Hydro Group’s cable and connection solutions, IMCA offers a range of sub-systems and components for technical applications on land, sea and air. The partnership w
RNLI Selsey Demolition Project in Full Swing
Work to demolish a now redundant lifeboat station on the West Sussex coast has moved into the marine phase following the arrival of a jack-up barge. Mackley, working on behalf of the RNLI, started the demolition last month following the completion of a new lifeboat station in Selsey – rendering the
GALLERY: Mariner modules loaded on ‘Mighty Servant 3’
Lerwick Port Authority has informed that the heavy transport vessel Mighty Servant 3 has reached the UK loaded with modules for Statoil’s Mariner field development. The Port Authority said that the Mighty Servant 3 arrived at Greenhead Base on Thursday. According to Lerwick Port, the ship will remai
GeoSea to Set Up Albatros Foundations
DEME’s offshore marine engineering subsidiary GeoSea has received the ‘Notice to Proceed’ for fabrication and offshore installation of 16 wind turbine foundations and 1 offshore transformer module (OTM) for the EnBW Albatros offshore wind farm. The Albatros offshore wind farm is located in the so-ca
Coral South FLNG contract goes to Aker Solutions
Aker Solutions of Norway has secured a contract for Eni’s multi-billion Coral South FLNG project, Mozambique’s first offshore field development. The work scope includes three steel tube umbilicals that would total more than 19 kilometers in length and connect the Coral South floating liquefied natur
EnQuest: First oil flows from Kraken field
EnQuest has informed that that first oil from its Kraken North Sea field was produced on June 23, 2017. Kraken is a large heavy oil accumulation in the UK North Sea, located in the East Shetland basin, to the west of the North Viking Graben, approximately 125 km east of the Shetland Islands. The fie
Online Consultation on Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme
The Environment Agency is about to launch an online public consultation into the detailed design of the Oxford flood alleviation scheme. According to the report, the EA is calling on communities to have their say on benefits and features that will make up the £120 million project to reduce flood ris
Highlights of the Week
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (June 19-25, 2017). VIDEO: Launching of the Hopper Dredger Vox Amalia Earlier this year, Van Oord’s new trailing suction hopper dredger Vox Amalia hit the water at the LaNaval shipyard in Bilbao, Spain. Agreemen
Fairfield submits decom plan for Dunlin subsea infrastructure
Fairfield Energy, a late-life asset and decommissioning operator, has submitted its draft decommissioning programs for the Dunlin, Merlin and Osprey field subsea installations and pipelines, in the UK sector of the North Sea, to the UK authorities. This is a second company to submit a draft decommis
Dreifa Energy secures first PSV for LNG conversion
Dreifa Energy signed a deal to acquire the platform supply vessel Blue Betria from Blue Star Line in order to convert the vessel into an LNG floating regasification unit (FRU).
Kvaerner christens giant jacket for Johan Sverdup field
Norway’s Kvaerner has completed the construction of the steel jacket destined for Statoil’s giant Johan Sverdrup field, in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The engineering and construction company has shared photos of the christening ceremony of the jacket, named Aegir, by a giant of the sea in Norse