Our Maritime Business Magazines

Liebherr’s maritime customer service is carrying out an extraordinary modernisation project on Sakhalin Energy’s Molikpaq offshore platform off the Russian island of Sakhalin. Two ram luffing offshore cranes, type RL 1500 are going to be completely renewed. An existing crane, type BOS 1900 will..

2H Offshore, a riser and conductor specialist in subsea services group Acteon, is pleased to announce the launch of the TRACS (tensioned riser assessment for continued service) joint industry project (JIP). In the project, 2H Offshore will work with operators..

Maersk Maker, the final vessel of Maersk Supply Service’s Starfish AHTS newbuilding series, was delivered yesterday from Kleven Yard. The vessel’s arrival completes Maersk Supply Service’s Fleet Renewal Programme, with ten new-build vessels delivered and 23 vessels divested over the..

Dutch offshore service provider Ampelmann has opened a new office in Sakhalin, Russia, in a move to expand its presence in the local market. The office will be manned by a full-time team of two Operations Engineers, Cyril Kooijmans and..

Europe installed 2.6GW of new offshore wind energy capacity in 2018, according to statistics released today by WindEurope. That’s an 18% increase in Europe’s offshore wind capacity. Fifteen new offshore windfarms came on line. The UK and Germany accounted for..

Petrobras reports it started today, with its partners of the BM-S-11 Consortium, the production of oil and natural gas through P-67 platform, in the Lula Norte area, in the pre-salt of Santos Basin. With capacity to process up to 150..

Vryhof and its mooring business – Deep Sea Mooring (DSM), today announced the signing of a multi-year agreement with Diamond Offshore. Under the terms of the agreement, DSM will provide mooring and related equipment to several of Diamond’s rigs and will..

Falck Safety Service takes the next step as the world’s leading safety services provider and changes its name to RelyOn Nutec. A name with links to the company’s heritage, customer promise and vision for the future of safety.

Mammoet has formed a strategic partnership with marine equipment owner, Astro Offshore. Astro Offshore owns and operates a fleet of offshore support vessels, including a variety of tugs and barges, providing services to oil & gas construction projects throughout the..

Cable and pipe seal provider Roxtec has more than doubled its fire resistance testing capacity. The new laboratory creates conditions for continuous development of safety products. “Our new fire lab fulfills the three goals of the investment”, says Mikael Helmerson,..

GE Renewable Energy and Future Wind (a Joint Venture between Pondera Development and Sif Holding Netherlands) have announced that they have signed an agreement to install the first Haliade-X 12MW wind turbine prototype at Maasvlakte, Rotterdam during summer 2019. The..

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has launched the SG 10.0-193 DD, the company’s first 10+MW offshore wind turbine. The 10MW rating is made possible through a larger generator diameter, building on the proven SGRE Direct Drive generator technology. By increasing..

The ECN part of TNO, KNMI and Whiffle consortium will today release the new and improved Dutch Offshore Wind Atlas (www.dutchoffshorewindatlas.nl). It includes an unprecedented level of detail where the wind is mapped up-to 600m in height and the daily..

Aker BP has become the first company on the Norwegian Continental Shelf to operate a staffed platform from an onshore control room. Ivar Aasen in the North Sea is now operated from Aker BP’s offices at Trondheim. The control room..

Bureau Veritas, a world leader in laboratory testing, inspection and certification services, has been awarded a four-year contract with Neptune Energy to provide second and third-party inspection services for the new Fenja oil and gas field development, offshore Norway. The..

3 January 2019 saw the 100th flight take off from Peterson Offshore Passenger Terminal at Zeeland Airport. This exciting new activity for the region began earlier in 2018 when helicopter operator NHV was awarded the contract for supporting Van Oord’s East..

The authorities have granted Equinor a permit to exploit an area for CO2 storage on the Norwegian Shelf. In the Northern Lights project, Equinor and partners Shell and Total will carry out a feasibility study for a CO2 storage facility. This..

The National Decommissioning Centre (NDC), a global technology R&D hub, is today opened by Lord Duncan, UK Government Minister for Scotland and Paul Wheelhouse MSP, Scottish Energy Minister, in Newburgh, in North-East Scotland’s Energetica Corridor. The government ministers joined industry..

Subsea Innovation (SI), part of Tekmar Group, has announced that it has been awarded DNV GL type approval for its SIClamp structural pipeline repair clamp technology. In doing so SI is the first manufacturer in the world to achieve this..

Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) successfully held a steel cutting ceremony for the first offshore living quarters to be fabricated in Qatar, at the Erhama bin Jaber Al Jalahma Shipyard. The project scope was awarded to N-KOM by Rosetti Marino, a..

Northland Power has completed the installation of all 31 foundations of the Deutsche Bucht offshore windfarm. This successfully concludes the first phase of construction within the planned timeframe. Jens Poulsen, Project Director of Northland Deutsche Bucht, says: “Installation work on..

Vestdavit has reinforced its claim to be the davit supplier of choice for higher sea states after securing orders to equip three state-of-the-art Esvagt Service Operations Vessels (SOVs) destined to support windfarm maintenance in challenging North Sea conditions.  Developed by..

Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) has signed an exclusive Pre-Construction Agreement (PCA) for the Inch Cape offshore windfarm project. The award was made by Inch Cape Offshore (ICOL), a subsidiary of Red Rock Power. The project scope includes the transportation and..

Texas-based The Crosby Group, one of the largest lifting, rigging, and material handling hardware company in the world, has completed the acquisition of Straightpoint UK (SP), a leading manufacturer of load cells and force measurement equipment. The value of the..

Total has started up production on 29 December, 2018 from the Egina field, located in around 1,600m of water depths, 150km off the coast of Nigeria. At plateau, the Egina field will produce 200,000 barrels of oil per day, which..