Our Maritime Business Magazines

For Statoil’s new Heidrun floating storage unit (FSU) under construction at Samsung Heavy Industries, Wärtsilä will supply a pump package including 38 deep well cargo pumps produced at Wärtsilä Svanehøj in Denmark, three fire water pump skids and two ballast pumps. The latter items are produced at Wärtsilä Pumps in Singapore. Delivery of the...

On Wednesday 10 April the Navingo Maritime & Offshore Career Event (MOCE) will be held for the seventh time in the Beurs-WTC, Rotterdam. These are turbulent times in the labour market, working on the future is, therefore, more important then ever. However, the maritime cluster seems to be weathering the storm reasonably well. Unfortunately...

ULSTEIN has entered into a contract for the delivery of design and power package for two platform supply vessels of the PX121 design for the Dutch shipowner Vroon. The ships will be constructed at China’s COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard Co., Ltd. “The shipowner and yard are new customers to ULSTEIN. We are very grateful for...

In October 2012 Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam (DSR) won the contract for installing the first Becker Twisted Fin on seven container vessels of the fleet of Hamburg (Germany) based liner shipping company Hamburg Süd. To complete the project in time, the vessels were routed in such a way that they could each be dry-docked for...

  Tugs Fairmount Summit and Fairmount Alpine have delivered the new build Noble Tamar jacket at location in the Tamar gas field in the Eastern Mediterranean. Both tugs towed the barge on which the jacket was loaded from the US to the field South-East of...

The 18th SPE ICoTA European Well Intervention conference takes place at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on November 14 and 15 and will focus on areas including coiled tubing, slickline, e-line and hydraulic workover. Mike Dyson, GM Well Engineering at BG Group, will kick off the two day conference and exhibition with a...

An Australia-based consortium, AG&P ALE Ventures Pty Ltd., harnessing the combined expertise of both ALE and AG&P in an equal partnership, has developed through its own R&D and capital the offshore innovation, the Hydro Deck, to support major projects being executed by its clients around the world. The Hydro Deck becomes the gateway for...

Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS (KOGT), a wholly owned company of KONGSBERG, has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Advali AS. The acquisition, which is expected to be completed mid-December 2012, will strengthen KOGT’s capabilities and efficiency in software development, testing and support. Advali is a leading provider...

MacLean Electrical Group’s Aberdeen business, which services the UK offshore operators and their contractors with electrical products and cables, has secured a new multi-million pound long-term supply agreement with Shell U.K. The MacLean Group has a long history of supplying Shell UK, and the contract is for five years with a further two-year option....

Four J D Neuhaus type EH50 air operated monorail hoists have been supplied and mounted by Westcon Løfteteknikk AS of Bergen to the Maersk offshore rig Guardian.These products have been specified for the synchronised lifting and handling of an 18.3/4″ 15,000psi BOP unit before and after drilling operations. Two hoists are each mounted on...

Jaya Holdings is continuing its expansion plans at its Batam yard in Indonesia as well as with its joint venture with IHC Merwede. The shipyard expansion, by around one third in size, will allow Jaya to build offshore supply vessels up to an overall  length of 150 m. The two companies joined forces in...

Offshore survey company UTEC announces the award of a significant multi-year framework agreement. The agreement is with SBM Offshore (Monaco) to provide offshore survey and positioning services carrying its construction vessel fleet, initially covering operations on-board the OCV Normand Installer and the new-build DSCV SBM Installer. The services contract will be managed though UTEC’s...

Expro has been awarded its first major subsea completion landing string contract in India. Expro has secured the multi-million dollar deepwater completion landing string contract in India for a three year term, with options to extend for another two years. The scope of work involves the supply of two complete 7 3/8″ electro hydraulic...

Nor-Shipping announces the call for entries for the Nor-Shipping Awards 2013: the Energy Efficiency Award (previously the Clean Ship Award), the Next Generation Ship Award and – new this year – the Young Entrepreneur...

Petrofac Training Services, a leading provider of training and consultancy solutions to the global energy industry, has achieved OPITO accreditation at its state-of-the-art base on Sakhalin...

Rapidly growing and award winning energy services firm ROVOP is to create around 60 jobs to accompany the purchase of five remotely operated vehicles...

Wärtsilä has been awarded yet another important order as part of the ongoing Brazilian programme to build a number of drill units (DRUs) to serve its offshore oil...

T.D. Williamson (TDW), a world leader in pipeline services and equipment, announced that it has completed its first inline inspection using a unique new approach to Electro Magnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT)...

19 and 20 November witnessed a successful two-day tour for business relations of Geberit and KEMPER active in the fields of superyacht building and offshore. The comprehensive tour programme included a number of presentations and factory visits in Langenveld and Olpe, Germany, introducing the art of sanitary and piping solutions – including health and...

Fairmount Marine’s multipurpose support vessel Fairmount Fuji has supported Angolan maritime service provider Octomar Serviços Maritimos in underwater maintenance of the drilling rig Transocean Rather. The Fairmount Fuji hosted and assisted a diving team of Octomar during the six weeks job offshore...

International oilfield services specialist Glacier Energy Services has appointed highly experienced energy sector and international logistics business senior executive George Leggate as director of its Wellclad weld overlay technology...

Subsea 7 has been awarded a USD 800 million subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline (SURF) contract from Total E&P Norge AS for the development of the Martin Linge gas field, located 180 km west of Bergen in the North...

The Spacelift MC 35000 DLS is an unique mobile marine crane with 1.500 tonnes lifting capacity, and stands for a new era in the offshore industry. The system’s architecture, combined with all other technical innovative features of this crane, marks the beginning of a new generation mobile offshore...

The takeover of Force Company not only strengthens the market position of the engineering group MULTI in the Netherlands, but it will also create extra growth. The group has ambitious plans to employ 100 extra engineers in the coming three...

Jeppesen has finalized a contract to provide its advanced optimization solutions to BP Shipping, one of the world’s largest operators of oil and liquid natural gas (LNG)...