Our Maritime Business Magazines

DNV has developed a new class notation for seismic vessels in consultation with key industry players such as WesternGeco, PGS and Fugro-Geoteam. The need to have enhanced redundancy and proper deck arrangements to ensure continuous operation without loss of speed is the backbone of these new technical...

Today Van Oord named its first shallow water pipe lay vessel Stingray at the COSCO shipyard in Nantong, China. The naming ceremony was performed by Mrs A. Athmer-Albersen, wife of Managing Director Offshore, Mr J.B.E.M....

CNR International has awarded Deep Casing Tools, the Aberdeen-based casing and completion technology specialist, a significant repeat order to supply Turbocaser Express and Turborunner technology for the Espoir Ivory Coast project. This order follows successful deployments in the North...

Lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has strengthened its support for North Sea operators by opening new offices and service centres in Bergen and Stavanger. Close to the main operating bases of the major North Sea operators, the two new bases swiftly deliver high quality servicing and spares for specialised offshore support vessels and offshore rigs and...

Tata Steel’s new high-productivity processing facility in Hartlepool, UK, will produce welded tubular assemblies to be used in the fabrication of jacket foundations for offshore wind turbines. The company believes the GBP 2 million offshore processing centre (OPC) will play a pivotal role in supplying the renewables...

Thanks to a strong showing last week, Yellow & Finch Publishers’ 2nd annual golf tournament raised EUR 10,000 for KiKa, the Cancer-Free Children Foundation. Dutch football player Gérard de Nooijer accepted the donation on behalf of the charity – the crowd cheered as the cheque was double the amount of money raised last...

Ocean Installer has successfully completed a contract for a pipeline survey and boulder relocation at the Corrib field. The contract covered the survey of a 20-inch, 83km long offshore pipeline and the relocation of about 250 boulders, clearing a 12-metre wide corridor in an umbilical lay...

This week Norway’s Ulstein Verft delivered ‘Blue Prosper’, the second of six medium-sized platform supply vessels (PSV) of PX121 design. Ulstein Verft was contracted to build the first two vessels for Blue Ship Invest, a company in Ulstein Group, at the end of 2010. A continued positive market trend combined with very positive feedback on...

At a ceremony in Bremerhaven this week, HGO InfraSea Solutions, a joint company of Hochtief Solutions and GeoSea (a company of the Belgian DEME group) named their powerful new heavy-lift jack-up vessel Innovation. Built at the Crist shipyard in Poland/Gdynia, she has been in operation for the project Global Tech I in the North...

GeoSea and Barge Master signed an agreement to test and deploy the first S700/C400 Barge Master platform – a motion compensation platform that counterbalances up to 95 percent of sea-induced...

For the Gorgon Project, Jumbo recently transported and discharged 25 concrete caissons, which will form the base of the heavy lift Material Offloading Facility for the Chevron LNG Plant in Australia. The crew of the Jumbo Jubilee accomplished a discharge rate of one caisson per...

IHC Merwede will design and manufacture its largest ever Hydrohammer – the S-2500 piling hammer – for Seaway Heavy Lifting. The order also includes a 6,500mm guide sleeve and other equipment needed for offshore operations in both the oil and gas and offshore wind...

The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon George Osborne MP, visited Heerema Fabrication Group’s Hartleppool yard in North East England. Heerema is creating 200 new jobs building offshore platforms for the major Cygnus gas project. The project was made possible in part by the UK Government’s decision to offer a tax allowance...

Gibdock has completed work on the semi-submersible accommodation platform, Etesco Millennium – the first offshore platform project undertaken by the yard in almost fifteen years. The semi-sub’s eight-month stay at the yard represented an important milestone for the Gibraltar shiprepair...

Yesterday sixteen wind turbine foundations built by Jan De Nul departed the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium for delivery to Sweden’s Eon. Jan De Nul NV, a branch of Jan De Nul Group, constructed the concrete foundations directly on two pontoons at the inner harbour of Zeebrugge in just five...

Hall Spars – a leading spar, rigging and complex composite component supplier for suepryachts – takes a step in a new direction. The company is manufacturing turbine components for the United States’ first commercial, grid-connected tidal energy...

FoundOcean has completed foundation grouting for three new platforms in the North Sea – contracts awarded by Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC). All three jackets were designed using pile-to-sleeve connections and fabricated with grout line connections above the...

Marine, offshore and industrial equipment supplier Theunissen Technical Trading BV (TTT) recently launched a new webshop to supplement its traditional ordering system. As well as checking inventory values, online customers of the Netherlands-based company can order online and check their own order...

Heerema Fabrication Group’s Hartlepool yard in the UK received a frame contract from GDF SUEZ E&P UK for the fabrication and commissioning of four topsides for the Cygnus gas field development on the UK’s southern North...

From late 2012 Expro will use its AX-S subsea well intervention system in a multi-million dollar contract with BG Group to intervene on two North Sea wells.  Expro says its AX-S will change the way oil and gas companies access and intervene on their subsea well assets at depths down to more than 3,000...

The Fjellstrand WindServer is one of the new generation of offshore service vessels designed for operation further offshore, into deeper waters with more extreme weather conditions. Germanischer Lloyd (GL) supports this growing industry by providing classification services for the first new builds of this innovative...

Last week Belgium-based marine contractor Jan De Nul launched its new fall pipe and mining vessel Joseph Plateau at the Spanish shipyard Construcciones Navales de Norte in Sestao. Like her sister vessel Simon Stevin launched in 2009, Joseph Plateau will mostly be deployed where oil and gas pipes have to be installed at large...

For Smit Lamnalco, the Hong Kong-based shipbuilder Cheoy Lee will build four 32m long RAstar 3200 class Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) tugs. The tugs will support Smit Lamnalco’s contract to assist the berthing and unberthing of LNG carriers at new export facilities being developed in Papua New Guinea by an Exxon Mobil-led...

Scotland-based Proserv will provide subsea control systems on two North Sea projects. For Maersk Oil UK Proserv will provide electro-hydraulic multiplex subsea control systems, along with its associated topside and subsea interface systems. Maersk Oil is developing a 25km subsea tieback to the Talisman-operated Clyde platform. The second contract, with an unnamed company, involves...

Materials handling specialists J D Neuhaus recently supplied a BOP handling system comprising four of their air operated monorail hoists. This featured a centralised pneumatic system providing common sensitive controls for all the lift and traverse movements of the hoists either as individual or paired hoists, or with all four hoist units operating together...