Glomar Offshore has purchased two subsea support vessels, the Bourbon Arethuse and Bourbon Amilcar. The vessels will be renamed Glomar Worker and Glomar Supporter, respectively. After modifications and upgrades in the Globaltic Marine yard in Gdynia, Poland, the vessels will be ready to serve Glomar
Airborne Oil & Gas, a manufacturer of Thermoplastic Composite Pipeline (TCP), has appointed Fabienne Ellington as its first vice president Asia and Middle East. Fabienne focus will be to drive the firm towards achieving its growth plans across the two regions. The Netherlands-headquartered company p
BiFab has secured a contract from GeoSea to produce piles worth up to £26.5 million for the Moray East offshore wind farm development. The contract represents the first for DF Barnes, following the takeover of BiFab, and will create 82 jobs at its yard in Arnish. Sean Power, vice president Business
Chet Morrison Contractors (MORRISON) has expanded its pipelay fleet and diving capabilities with the acquisition of two pipelay/construction barges and a saturation diving system. MORRISON acquired the LB Super Chief, the ABS-classed pipelay barge with accommodations for 93 personnel. The second bar
MacArtney has established a workshop facilities at its headquarters in Denmark. MacArtney HQ recently repurposed the old salmon smoking facility in Hjerting to accommodate the new 2500 sqm facility that incorporates new workshop space for electronics, fibre optics, cabling and mechanics. The effecti
Royal Australian Navy and the Sri Lankan Navy are gearing up for a search operation for the lost Australian WWII destroyer HMAS Vampire. Nine sailors died when the destroyer HMAS Vampire sank after enduring an intensive Japanese air attack off the Sri Lankan coast. The Vampire had been attempting to
Satif Ouvrage d’Art, a French private service company, has taken delivery of H300 MK2 remotely operated vehicle (ROV) from ECA Group. The H300 ROV is equipped with a scanning sonar and an imaging sonar, both mounted on a specific skid to conduct inspection and intervention tasks on immerged structur
Phoenix International (Australia) has secured a contract with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) for the delivery of a new air transportable submarine rescue system. Minister for Defence, Christopher Pyne, said the service will be based in Western Australia and support both the Collins Class submarine
Kraken Robotics has developed new sonar system, the AquaPix MINSAS-240 Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS). Karl Kenny, Kraken’s president and CEO said, “For demanding subsea survey missions in mine countermeasures, infrastructure monitoring and oil & gas exploration; time is of the essence. The sensor t
Sonardyne International has delivered a sonar monitoring system to an unnamed US oil company, to reinforce its deepwater offshore asset integrity assurance in the US Gulf of Mexico The Sonardyne’s wide-area Sentry Integrity Monitoring Sonar (IMS), has been deployed on the seafloor at more than 2,000
BP and Enpro Subsea have started execution of a Global Frame Agreement aimed at providing an enhanced subsea architecture and smart standardization using Enpro’s Flow Access Module (FAM) technology. Enpro Subsea supplied the FAM technology to BP on the Kepler K3 project in the Gulf of Mexico. The pa
Subsea 7 has confirmed the award of three contracts by Woodside since December 2018. Each contract is for engineering studies and includes an option for Woodside to proceed to the execute phase with an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract. The contracts are for: SN
The Nederlands-based technical solutions provider Seatec has received order for design and delivery of four special submersible pump systems. All 4 systems will be fitted with special hydraulic motor, ROV release and various electrical sensors plus valves. Required hydraulic power packs (topside) ar
PGS, in cooperation with Sonangol, is acquiring a new survey over the shallow-water shelf area of the Kwanza Basin, Angola. The Kwanza Shelf includes fields and discoveries with reservoirs in both the presalt and the postsalt. These open acreage shallow-water blocks have been overlooked in recent ex
