Subsea
Damen Nets MSV Seawell Upgrade
Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen, part of Damen Shiprepair & Conversion, has been awarded a major upgrade job on MSV SEAWELL (light well intervention/dive support vessel) by Helix UK. The SEAWELL is expected at the yard second half of December 2014. As the upgrade will be executed over the winter season,
Proserv Wins Two Spirit of Enterprise Awards
Energy services firm Proserv has win two prestigious awards in recognition of the firm’s business success and engineering and manufacturing capabilities. Proserv scooped Business of the Year and Great Engineering & Manufacturing Company of the Year at Friday’s (21st November) Spirit of Enterprise Aw
Seaflex, Salvesen Salvage WWII Landing Craft
Working in conjunction with Salvesen UK, Seaflex deployed 230t of buoyancy from its office in The Isle of Wight to the operation of re-floating of the only surviving landing craft from D-Day 1944 in Birkenhead Docks Liverpool. Ben Board, Technical Site Support Manager at Unique Seaflex commented, “I
Green Light for First Dutch Offshore Grid Connection
Pondera Consult and Arcadis consortium were given the go-ahead to prepare EIA and permit application for the first Dutch offshore grid connection. Pondera Consult, together with Arcadis, has been asked by TenneT (TSO) to support the entire EIA process for the offshore grid connection of offshore win
Siemens to Pull Out of Tidal Power Industry
Siemens is looking to divest its ocean power generation business, in particular Marine Current Turbines (MCT), based in Bristol, United Kingdom. This restructuring would affect 45 employees in the Hydro & Ocean unit in Siemens Division Wind Power & Renewables. It is expected that the divestment will
VIDEO: SeaBED Surveys Antarctic Sea Ice
An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), known as SeaBED, has provided the first detailed, high-resolution 3-D maps of Antarctic sea ice. The new technology delivered accurate ice thickness measurements from areas that were previously too difficult to access. While most oceanographic survey instrumen
Magseis Slips on Delays
Norwegian geophysical company, Magseis, said that the third quarter results have been negatively impacted by an extended yard stay which reduced revenues by $1.5 million as well as lower than expected production speeds. A breakdown of the rudder forced the vessel into dock and led to the vessel bein
MeyGen Enters Construction Phase
After more than seven years of planning and design, Atlantis is now entering the construction phase of MeyGen’s first 6MW tranche of capacity in what the company believes to be the world’s larges planned tidal stream project. Now that the financing package has been agreed for the first four turbines
Rights Sought for Seabed Mining Off Cornish Coast
The Crown Estate has advised that it is considering awarding seabed rights to allow for the exploration of tin deposits off the coast of Cornwall. Cornwall has a tin mining history which stretches back hundreds of years, with the last active mine closing in the late 1990s. Due to natural geological
Oceaneering Hires Island Pride
Oceaneering has entered into a two-year charter for use of the Island Pride, a multi-service subsea support vessel owned by Island Offshore Shipping International. The vessel is expected to be available for work in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) in early January 2015. Before it starts the work, the I
Red7Marine Invests in ROVs
Fast-growing offshore company Red7Marine Offshore has expanded its subsea services to North Sea clients by investing in a fleet of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The eight observation class ROVs add a new strand to the portfolio offered by the ambitious marine offshore and subsea contractor. The
JFD Launches New SDV Unit in Sweden
James Fisher Defence (JFD), the subsea operations and engineering company, has opened a new facility in Vaxholm, Sweden, JFD’s international base for the manufacture and maintenance of the company’s SEAL Pod range of Swimmer Delivery Vehicles (SDVs). The new facility is the headquarters of JFD Swede
Thalassa Issues Profit Warnings
A marine geophysical services company, Thalassa Holdings, has reported that the Company is unlikely to meet current market expectations for this financial year. The board of Thalassa, having reviewed the position on potential contracts, is of the opinion that none of the current significant backlog,
Faroe Completes Sale of Glenlivet Stake to Total
Faroe Petroleum announces the completion of the sale of its ten percent interest in the undeveloped Glenlivet gas field, West of Shetland. The consideration for the sale of the Glenlivet interest is £10 million, with an effective date of 1 January 2014, of which a proportion is deferred until the su