Subsea
Seatools Nets Seaway Heavy Lifting Contract for Beatrice OWF
Seaway Heavy Lifting has awarded Dutch subsea technology company Seatools the contract for the design and delivery of a piling template instrumentation and control system. The system will be used for the offshore pile installation operations that are part of the construction of the Beatrice offshore
Kongsberg Equipment Package for New Angolan Research Vessel
Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded a contract by Damen to provide a diverse, integrated technology solution for a new 74-metre fishery research vessel (FRV), which will be built at Damen Shipyards Galati, Romania. The vessel is planned to be delivered to the owner, the Angolan Ministry of Fisheries
Aker Solutions Clinches Dvalin Subsea Deal
Aker Solutions secured two contracts worth at least NOK 900 million (USD 112.5 million) from DEA Norge to deliver the subsea production system, maintenance and services at the Dvalin natural gas development offshore Norway. The first order is for a production system encompassing a manifold, four sub
ABB and Aibel Join Forces in Offshore Wind Industry
ABB and Aibel have entered into a strategic partnership to deliver offshore wind integration solutions. ABB will focus on its high voltage direct current (HVDC) technology, while Aibel will take turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) responsibility for the design, construction, inst
Cathie Associates, Ceteal and Ghenova Win with DONG Wind Power
DONG Energy Wind Power has selected Cathie Associates, Ceteal and Ghenova to provide support for its offshore wind farm projects over the next five years. Offshore geoscience and geotechnical engineering consultancy, Cathie Associates, have teamed up with marine structural engineering company, Cetea
TGS Wraps Up Gigante 2D Seismic Shoot
TGS has completed acquisition of its 186,000 kilometer Gigante seismic survey in Mexico. Acquisition of this survey began in June 2015 with five seismic vessels contracted to acquire the 2D seismic data. Five of SeaBird vessels were contracted to acquire the survey, namely Aquila Explorer, Osprey Ex
Teledyne CARIS USA Appoints New Director
Teledyne CARIS USA, a developer of marine mapping software, informed that Paul Cooper will be retiring on October 14, after 10 years at its helm. Cooper joined CARIS from Leidos (formerly SAIC), and prior to that had a career with the US Naval Oceanographic Office working in the fields of Hydrograph
Polarcus Records Minor Decline in Vessel Activity
Seismic contractor, Polarcus, has seen a slight drop in the vessel activity in the third quarter of 2016. The utilization of the vessel fleet was 90 percent in Q3 2016 compared to 93 percent in the corresponding period in 2015. On the contracted basis the vessel activity was 20 percent higher, comin
Guidance Marine Hires Sonardyne Vessel for Sensor Trials
Sonardyne International has recently chartered one of its Plymouth-based trials vessels to Guidance Marine. Echo Explorer, a 12 meter survey-class catamaran, and its crew were hired to support sea acceptance trials of Guidance Marine’s new long-range microwave position reference sensor, Artemis Mk6,
C-Tecnics Boosts Business Development Team
C-Tecnics, a subsea camera and lighting company, has added Scott Jamieson to its business development team. Jamieson has over 30 years in the subsea industry working as a senior manager for equipment manufacturers around the world. C-Tecnics are said to be looking to the future and investing in pers
Gassco Completes Upkeep of NCS Gas Facilities
Gassco, a Norwegian operator of gas pipes transporting natural gas from the Norwegian Continental Shelf to Continental Europe and Great Britain, said it has completed an extensive programme for maintaining facilities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). “This year’s maintenance operations invol
Rentel Gains Financial Close for OWF Project in Belgian North Sea
Rentel NV has reached financial close for the construction of a new offshore wind farm off the Belgian coast. The Rentel project, located 40 kilometers north of Ostend, will be the fifth offshore wind project in the Belgian North Sea. This new offshore power station will consist of 42 turbines and a
DEA Submits Dvalin Plan
The plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Dvalin field (previously named Zidane) has been handed over to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in Norway by operator DEA. Dvalin will be the company’s first operated field development project in Norway. The Dvalin licence plans to produce a t
¡VAMOS! Reaches Design Freeze Stage
After 18 months the ¡VAMOS! Consortium has reached the “design freeze” stage of the prototypes to be built, Damen Shipyards Group informed. ¡VAMOS!, the Viable Alternative Mining Operating System, is a 42-month research and development project launched to enable the opening and rehabilitation of und