Project & Tenders
EXCLUSIVE: Jan De Nul Dredgers in Suez
The New Suez Canal project is well on schedule, with the opening ceremony set to take place on August 6. Jan De Nul six cutter suction dredgers working on site, together with 18 other dredgers of the Consortium partners, dredge 24/7 in order to deliver the New Suez Canal by August 2015. The Consorti
Alcatel-Lucent to Upgrade Tiscali’s Network
Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Italy’s Tiscali to deploy a 100G terrestrial optical backbone infrastructure and upgrade existing submarine links. The new agile optical networking solution, using its 1830 Photonic Service Switch platform will allow Tiscali to increase both data capacity and data
More Equipment for New Bronka Port
Three more rubber tyred gantry crane (RTG crane) have been delivered to Bronka Port (MMPK Bronka) by the heavy load carrier M/V Meri. According to the project investor Phoenix LLC, the cranes were delivered from port Hanko and unloaded at Bronka’s berth No. 3. Unloading of the Konecranes-built crane
WATCH: Normand Vision Gears for Troll B Gig
The following video shows a Norwegian subsea contractor, Ocean Installer, mobilising its vessel Normand Vision for riser replacement job at the Troll B platform June 2015. In March this year, Ocean Installer signed amendments with Statoil for umbilical marine installation at the Visund field and for
MMT in UK-Iceland Link Route Survey
MMT (Sweden) has been awarded a contract for the world’s longest HVDC route survey for the UK-Iceland Interconnector by Atlantic Superconnection Corporation (ASC). MMT will provide bathymetric and geophysical mapping along the entire route corridor, between Iceland to England, the company said. MMT
Plexus Nets Total Contract in North Sea
Plexus has secured a £3.3 million contract with Total E&P Norge AS, to supply its POS-GRIP wellhead systems, associated equipment and mudline services for Total’s Ultra High Pressure/High Temperature (‘X-HP/HT’) Solaris gas exploration well in the Graben area of the North Sea, offshore Norway. Reven
VIDEO: Flooding of Panama Canal’s New Locks
Last Thursday, the crews working on the the Panama Canal project celebrated another important milestone bringing the Expansion scheme one step closer to completion. Working on the project for the past seven years culminated with the flooding of the Third Set of Locks, last phase before the official
Ezra Scores $115 Mln in Subsea Deals
Ezra’s subsea division, EMAS AMC, has clinched several global contracts, including one for rigid pipelay on the Aviat field development in the UK North Sea, under the auspices of the frame agreement the company signed with Apache in the North Sea, bringing the total contract value to more than US$11
Odfjell Drilling hired for drilling at Johan Sverdrup
Norwegian oil company Statoil has awarded two contracts at a total value of more than NOK 4.35 billion ($558 million) to Odfjell Drilling for drilling wells on the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea, offshore Norway. Odfjell Drilling has been awarded contracts both for the Deepsea Atlantic semi-s
Statoil gets approval for subsea ops at Gullfaks Sør
Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has given consent to Statoil to use pipelines and subsea production facilities at Gullfaks Sør in the northern North Sea. Statoil is the operator at Gullfaks Sør, in the Tampen area in the northern North Sea, south of the Gullfaks field. Gullfaks Sør has been
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (June 08 – June 14). Three more tendons on the Chevron’s Big Foot tension-leg platform (TLP) have sunk, causing an indefinite delay to the start of the project. As Reuters reports, nine of sixteen tend
VIDEO: Finish of the Suez Canal Project in Sight
The finish of the New Suez Canal dredging project is in sight. This mega-project, to dredge more than a million cubic meters of sand a day, is unprecedented in terms of speed, manpower and equipment being used for the works. According to the latest figures from the Suez Canal Authority, approximatel
EMGS Enters New Agreements for Barents Sea Data
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has entered into three new data licensing agreements with oil companies for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS’ multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. The agreements are worth a total of USD 3.7 million gross, whereas EMGS will receive USD 2.6 million
Steart Coastal Project Shortlisted for BCI Awards
After winning the Environment Agency Project Excellence Award in April and entering the finals for the 2015 CIEEM awards, the Steart Coastal Management Project is now in the race for another one, the 2015 British Construction Industry (BCI) Awards. The Steart scheme, carried out by Team Van Oord on