Subsea
Bisso Marine Boosts Pipelay Capacity
Houston-based Bisso Marine has acquired offshore pipelay ‘industry’s stalwart’ derrick/pipelay barge GLOBAL IROQUOIS. The 122m x 30.5m x 9m laybarge has performed pipelay operations worldwide and will be renamed BISSO IROQUOIS. During the last decade, the barge has been reconfigured and received sig
3D Services Expands Its Services
3D Services, a CT based company, is expanding their services to now offer Underwater 3D laser scanning. The new service is in addition to the standard 3D laser scanning and aerial surveying that the company offers. Now, 3D Services is able to provide high resolution scans and 3D models of underwater
ACS Provides Sediment Samples Testing for WaveSub Project
Marine Power Systems (MPS), a Swansea-based wave energy developer, has enlisted the services of ACS Testing, to provide the testing of sediment samples from the deployment site, to inform the final anchoring specification for the WaveSub. MPS is developing the WaveSub device, which is due for deploy
Hydrex Patches Up Rudder in Rotterdam
Antwerp-based underwater repair and maintenance specialist, Hydrex, has carried out a rudder repair on a 170-meter container vessel during the ship’s scheduled maintenance stop in Rotterdam. Hidrex divers team, with one of its dive support workboats, installed a doubler plate over the cavitated area
Fugro Finalizes Gemini Export Cables Burial
Fugro recently completed the burial of export cables at the Gemini offshore wind park, off the Netherlands coast. Fugro was awarded a contract by Van Oord in April and mobilised one of its two Q1400 trenching spreads onto the Van Oord support vessel Jan Steen to execute the export cable burial works
Subsea UK Appoints New Members to Its Board
Subsea UK has unveiled its new Board, following a members’ ballot at the industry body’s Annual General Meeting. Subsea UK informed that two new Board members were appointed and seven members re-elected. Cameron Mitchell, technical disciplines assurance manager for Shell UK, and Mark Richardson, pro
DCN Wraps Up Grouting Hoses Removal at Gode Wind 1&2 OWF
Bergen op Zoom-based DCN International Diving and Marine Contractors has successfully removed all grouting hoses at the OWF Gode Wind 1&2. According to the company, a total of 97 locations have been visited to remove the 5,5 grouting hoses, which were cut and removed with in-house developed tools, m
Fugro Bags Survey Work Offshore Guyana
Fugro has been awarded a contract by Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, an ExxonMobil affiliate, for survey services at a deepwater field development offshore Guyana. The contract provides for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) geophysical survey and an environmental baseline survey, a
Oceaneering Orders Sparrows Under-Rollers
Sparrows Group, and its cable and pipe-lay solutions (CPLS) division, has been awarded a contract by Oceaneering to design and manufacture two 500-tonne powered and jack-able under-rollers. According to the company, the new under-roller system is suitable for use with reels of up to 11.4m outer diam
EuroAsia InterConnector Moves Step Closer
The EuroAsia InterConnector project has moved a step closer with new studies awarded to Italian CESI S.p.A. and GAS S.r.l, during a ceremony held at the European Parliament Office in Cyprus. As Cyprus Mail reports, the studies are for the technical design, the reconnaissance study for the optimum ro
SapuraKencana Takes Profit Hit
Malaysia’s SapuraKencana Petroleum has seen its profits slashed almost 63 per cent in the third quarter ended October 31, 2015, mostly on high impairments, despite a revenue growth of close to 20 per cent. In the third quarter, the company generated revenue of approximately $671.2 million, or 2.89 b
Normand Vision Takes On Its First Renewables Job
Ocean Installer has been awarded an offshore wind contract with Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH. “We are very pleased that we are able to secure a very interesting project within the offshore renewables wind market and demonstrate our capabilities on such a project,” says Steinar Riise, CEO Ocean In
Lundin Hits Rolvsnes Oil Off Norway
Lundin Petroleum has completed the Rolvsnes exploration well 16/1-25 S as an oil discovery. The well is located in PL338C south of the Edvard Grieg field in the central North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The well encountered a gross oil column of 30 metres in porous granitic
CGG Calls on ISS Services for Brazil Campaign
Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the maritime and logistics service provider, has signed a contract with CGG to provide offshore agency support services for a new oil and gas exploration project in the Barreirinhas Basin in the equatorial margin of northern Brazil. CGG is conducting the multi-clien