Dutch offshore lifting equipment provider KenzFigee and Zamil Shipyards, part of Zamil Offshore Services, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a mutual cooperation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The deal will see the two companies provide offshore crane services and local constructio
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Tekmar Energy has delivered TekLink subsea cable protection systems (CPS) to DEME Offshore for the SeaMade offshore wind farm in Belgium. The delivery includes 136 TekLink Mechanical Latch cable protection systems and bellmouths for application on both J-Tube and J-Tubeless inter-array cable pull-in
Swedish engineering group Sandvik Materials Technology said it has received large orders for advanced tubes for the energy segment. The orders were booked in the first quarter 2020 at a combined value of about SEK 630 million ($61 million). According to the company, the deliveries are scheduled as f
Marine services provider James Fisher and Sons sad that Fergus Graham has stepped down from the board and from his role as director of Marine Support Division, with immediate effect. Graham will remain an employee of the company until 19 March 2021. He joined James Fisher in January 2017 as the dire
Trelleborg’s offshore operation has unveiled its new digitized monitoring technology for pipeline protection ancillaries. This new digitized monitoring technology provides insight through integrated electronic sensors, that can communicate directly via ‘digital technician’ app, giving access to pre-
JFD has decided to postpone all training courses within JFD’s portfolio in response to the global outbreak of COVID-19. The full training programme will be reintroduced as soon as relevant Governments advice states that it is safe to do so. Those who have booked a training course with JFD that has n
Polarcus has received contract termination notice for a 3D marine seismic acquisition project offshore West Africa. The contract was initially announced in November 2018. The client has decided to cease operations on the project and the contract has been terminated, Polarcus said. The client has acc
Chinese power and fiber optic cable manufacturer Hengtong has completed the delivery test of the first submarine cable for the Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical (ZPC) refining and chemical integration project at the Zhoushan Green Petrochemical Base. The cables should provide reliable power for the cons
Lankhorst Offshore has secured a contract by SBM Offshore to supply the deepwater mooring lines for the Liza Unity Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) for ExxonMobil’s Liza field offshore Guyana. This follows the deployment of Lankhorst mooring lines for the Liza Destiny FPSO mooring s
Trelleborg has been awarded a contract by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to supply 18 kilometers of Tri-Strakes for the risers and flowlines on the Lingshui offshore gas development in China. The strakes will be placed on various sizes of pipelines attached to semi-submersible float
Axxis Geo Solutions (AGS) has secured contract extension for the 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic acquisition survey in the Middle East. AGS announced the initial contract award in December 2019. The additional work is estimated to be totaling seven vessel months and will continue into the second
Norwegian equipment provider for aquaculture industry AKVA Group has appointed Ronny Meinkøhn as its new chief financial officer (CFO). Meinkøhn comes from the position as CFO in Apply AS, which he has had since 2015. He will take up the position as CFO of AKVA group no later than October 1, 2020. T
Tracerco, part of Johnson Matthey, has recently been awarded a deep-water subsea inspection project by an undisclosed operator to assess the integrity of a new pipelay in the Gulf of Mexico. The operator will deploy Tracerco’s subsea CT scanner Discovery to obtain critical baseline integrity data on
