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Graduate Engineers Gain Field Experience

T.D. Williamson (TDW) announced that the second class of new engineering recruits has been inducted into the company’s Engineering Development Program...

Bibby Offshore Expands with Two New Staff Appointments

Bibby Remote Intervention Limited (BRIL) has announced the recent appointments of Lloyd Duncan as Senior Inspection Repair and Maintenance (IRM) Consultant and Andy Inglis to the role of Inspection...

Seajacks Zaratan – Monopile Handling Tools

In the beginning of September 2011 Seajacks awarded Conbit with the contract to engineer a solution for the handling of the monopiles for the Meerwind project. One year later the new jackup vessel was supplied, finished its first assignment and is equipped with all tools for its first big job. This project completion forms...

Wärtsilä RT-flex Low-speed Engines Achieve Milestone

Wärtsilä has received its 1000th order for its 2-stroke low-speed diesel, electronically controlled, common-rail RT-flex...

Aker Solutions Secures Service Agreement with Statoil

Statoil has exercised a two-year contract option with Aker Solutions for provision of mechanical wireline services on Statoil operated fields and mobile drilling units on the Norwegian continental...

Metizoft Rises to Major Challenge Offshore Brazil

FAST-growing marine design consultant Metizoft believes a new consultancy contract offers western Norway’s floating offshore engineering expertise an unprecedented opportunity to tap into Brazil’s expanding oil and gas drilling...

Custom Cranes for Walking Jack-Up

In October Dutch crane builder Lagendijk Equipment delivered two electric/ hydraulic cranes for the Van Oord and Fugro Seacore joint venture WaveWalker 1. The custom-designed and built offshore knuckle boom crane and offshore wire crane with lattice boom will operate on board the innovative walking jack-up barge in rough seas, surf zones, beaches, and other intertidal settings in...

UK’s First Commercial Scale Tidal Energy Project

Independent, international energy consultancy Xodus Group has been retained by MeyGen Ltd to provide further environmental support for a major tidal project in the Pentland Firth,...

Ferguson Group to Host Networking Event at AGEX

The Ferguson Group, specialists in the rental of containers and accommodation/workspace modules to the global offshore energy industry, is to host a networking event as part of the 3rd ASEAN Oil and Gas Expo (AGEX) in...

ROMAR Safety System Reaches Milestone

Aberdeenshire-based oilfield service company ROMAR International has announced the 80th sale of its Packer Management System...

OCA Challenge Award for Innovation 2012

Stork Technical Services, the leading global provider of knowledge-based asset integrity management services for the oil and gas, chemical and power sectors, has won the ‘Innovation’ accolade at the OCA (Offshore Contractors Association) Challenge Awards for its industry-first hot bolt clamp...

Hydrasun Secures International Contract Wins With BP

Hydrasun, a specialist provider of integrated fluid transfer, power and control solutions to the global energy market, has secured contracts in Angola, the Gulf of Mexico and in Azerbaijan, with major oil and gas operator...

Spudding of Exploration Well on Darwin

Fairfield Energy, a North Sea-focused independent oil and gas company, is pleased to announce that the first well of a three well campaign in the Darwin area spudded on 23...

Ampelmann Launches Big Brother

During this fall, Ampelmann Operations has launched the Ampelmann E-type; the bigger version of the successful A-type. The Ampelmann E-type is capable to operate in higher sea states, can carry greater loads and increases the landing height at offshore...

Bibby Offshore Invests in ROV Fleet

Aberdeen-based subsea installation contractor Bibby Offshore has announced investment of around £11million in Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) systems for its latest division, Bibby Remote Intervention Limited...

Stork Technical Services’ Apprenticeship Programme Praised

Stork Technical Services, a global provider of knowledge-based asset integrity management services for the oil and gas, chemical and power sectors, welcomed Business Secretary, Vince Cable, to its heat treatment facility in Southport, UK during a recent visit (18 October) to discuss the company’s apprenticeship...

BMT’S XSS Design Makes a Splash

BMT Nigel Gee Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Group, a leading international maritime design and engineering consultancy, has launched its first 26m XSS Windfarm Support for Turbine Transfers at the Sepers B.V shipyard in...

Imtech New Partner Compact Offshore Substation

Mercon and Liandon announce that Imtech has joined their MLK Projects consortium. MLK Projects was founded by Liandon and Mercon earlier this year to market a new innovation in offshore substations named COSS for Compact Offshore...

Azipod Propulsion for Wind Turbine Installation Vessels

ABB recently delivered four Azipod C propulsion systems for the Blue Ocean II Wind Turbine Installation Vessel built by Samsung Shipyard in...

Construction 690MW Platform Started

Friday 19 October 2012 saw the start of the construction of the 690MW platform for TenneT’s offshore grid connection project HelWin2. The steel cutting ceremony took place at the yard of Heerema Fabrication Group in Zwijndrecht (the Netherlands), where the topsides of the platform will be built. The jacket and bridge will be constructed...

Revolutionary 1-Person Survival Life Raft Launched

Netherlands based Sea Rescue Gear BV launches the Survivor wearable life vest and raft at the Offshore Energy 2012 Trade Fair in Amsterdam on the booth of the leading magazine Offshore Industry, one of the successful maritime magazines from the portfolio of Yellow & Finch Publishers. The Survivor is a compact survival and rescue...

Austal Secures Contract for Wind Farm Support Vessels

Reflecting its renewed competitiveness in the international market for small and medium sized commercial vessels, Austal has secured a new contract for the design and construction of three wind farm support...

World’s Biggest Offshore Floating Facility

At 1601 ft. long x 242.7 ft. wide, the Prelude FLNG facility will be the largest offshore floating facility ever...

Oil & Gas Innovators Urge Collaboration

Developers of oil and gas technology are calling on major North Sea operators to work more closely together to find solutions to the industry’s most pertinent technology issues as they convene at the fifth ITF Technology Showcase next...

Heerema and Technip Form Worldwide Alliance

Heerema Marine Contractors (Heerema) and Technip (NYSE Euronext Paris: TEC) have signed a worldwide alliance agreement where the two companies will combine their capabilities to help their clients best address the fast growing subsea ultra-deepwater market. Alliance Rationale Ultra-deepwater projects are expected to be the fastest growing part of the subsea market over the...