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IHC Merwede Launches Two New Dredgers

IHC Merwede successfully launched two new dredgers wednesday at the company’s Dutch shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel. Offshore Industry witnessed the...

Expro Well Testing in Bentley field

At the Bentley Field east of the Shetlands, Expro will provide heavy oil well testing and data management services through drilling and completions company ADTI on the Rowan Norway jack-up rig. The contract, valued at about USD12m (GBP8m), will support Xcite Energy’s 90 day extended well test at the field, said to contain 116...

Ulstein Idea EPC for West Duddon Sands

Ulstein Idea Equipment Solutions BV will complete the engineering, procurement and construction of two innovative gripper frames for jack-up monopile operations at the West Duddon Sands wind farm installation...

EU Offshore Wind Power Capacity Up 50 Percent

In the first six months of 2012 132 new European offshore wind turbines – totalling 523.2 MW – connected to the grid, according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA). This is a 50% increase compared to the same period in 2011, when European turbines added 348.1...

Caley Davits For Japanese Fisheries Patrol Vessels

Offshore handling systems specialist Caley Ocean supplies davits for four Japanese Fisheries patrol vessels. The davits will allow rapid deployment and retrieval of a range of high speed workboats, even in Sea State 6 conditions, during patrol...

Jan De Nul Books Global Offshore Contracts

In Canada Jan De Nul‘s ‘Cristóbal Colón’, the largest THSD in the world, will excavate a Glory Hole in the Atlantic Ocean east of Newfoundland. At a water depth of 130 m, the subsea depression will protect oil installations from icebergs. The project is one of number of offshore projects that Jan De Nul...

Damen First Dutch Certified Distributor of Parker

Damen Technical Agencies (DTA) became the first Dutch engineering sales company to be named Certified Distributor of Parker Hannifin within the technology of...

A2Sea Vessels to Install Gwynt y Môr Turbines

From Sping 2013 Denmark-based A2Sea‘s specialist jack-ups Sea Jack and Sea Worker will install 160 Siemens 3.6MW turbines on RWE’s Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm. A2Sea has installed more than half of the Northern Europe’s offshore wind farms, and the Danish installation contractor is looking forward to this next significant...

Update For IMCA’S Marine Construction Contract

The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has published a variety of guides, templates and discussion documents aimed at raising awareness on contracting issues. It  focuses on liability and insurance issues, promoting discussion and providing tools that may be useful for its contractor members, their clients and...

Expro Wins Who Dat Subsea Work

International oilfield service company Expro has been awarded a USD 3.4 million, two-year subsea services contract for LLOG Exploration’s Who Dat project, in the Gulf of...

FMC Signs Statoil Subsea Equipment Contract

FMC Technologies signed a USD 200 million agreement with Statoil for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment to support the Gullfaks South field...

Large Project Award For FoundOcean

Subsea and offshore cementing specialist FoundOcean has won the Large Project Award at the inaugural RenewableUK Energy Awards 2012. Together with Offshore Design Engineering Ltd., REpower and Vattenfall, the companies were recognised for their exceptional achievement in constructing the Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm project. RenewableUK is the body representing the wind and renewables...

USD 400 Million SURF Contract For Subsea 7

Subsea 7  S.A. has been awarded  a  USD 400 million SURF contract from BG Norge Limited, for the development of the Knarr field, in the Norwegian Sector of the North...

Holland Shipyards Delivers Wind Accommodation

Holland Shipyards successfully transported a 32 persons accommodation module to Keppel Verolme, which will be placed on the transformer substation in the German North Sea at the offshore wind park “Global Tech...

IHC Winches to Deliver FPSO Riser

IHC Winches will design and manufacture a riser pull-in spread for a MODEC FPSO. Part of this system will be built in Brazil to meet the local content requirements for the project, with delivery scheduled for Q1...

Unmanned Aircraft to Collect North Sea Data

Maritime safety organisations bordering the southern North Sea and English Channel will collect data through unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) in a European project launched today. When completed in 2014, the cost-effective aircraft could be used by police and ports to manage offshore emergencies, as well as traffic and...

Major Saudi Order for Scotland’s Deep Casing Tools

Aberdeen-based Deep Casing Tools will supply casing and completion technology for a major Saudi oil company following the introduction of its high-speed drillable reaming system, the...

Giant Jacket Installed at Valemon

On 18 June Heerema Marine Contractors installed the largest jacket ever designed and built in the Netherlands. The Dutch company transported the 160m jacket from builders Heerema Fabrication Group in Vlissingen in the Netherlands to the jacket’s position at the North Sea Valemon...

Subsea 7 New Build Jack-Up Joins Fleet

Subsea 7 has added the specially adapted new build jack-up accommodation and crane barge, the Seven Inagha, to its fleet. The jack-up barge can accommodate up to 150 people. She will provide utility services and support to hook-up teams on offshore installations. The vessel’s first project is on the OSO field in...

Heerema to Build Germany Wind Converter Station

Heerema Fabrication Group in the Netherlands will engineer and build an offshore wind converter station platform equiped with Siemens High Voltage Direct Current technology, which provides low-loss transmission of wind power generated in the German North Sea. Sister company Heerema Marine Contractors will install the platform in...

Imtech Marine Communications For Second Jack-Up

For its communication and IT, Jack-Up Barge’s new build self-elevating platform JB-118 will feature systems from Imtech Marine (Radio Holland Netherlands). The contact follows a similar contract for the JB-117, which Imtech Marine successfully completed earlier this...

Van Oord Wins Ichthys Dredging in Darwin

Van Oord won a EUR 567 million dredging contract in Darwin Harbour, Australia – part of the Ichthys LNG Project, a joint venture between INPEX (operator) and TOTAL. Execution of the project starts in August 2012 and is scheduled for completion in April...

Pressure Reducing Valves

The new Clorius Controls pressure reducing valves G1PR and H1PR maintain the pressure downstream of the valve to an adjust set point value. The pressure controllers from the Danish manufacturer lower large and variable pump pressure to stabilise the flow in the plant. The valves are available through Dutch distributor Siscon...

New Compact Electric Winch

The newly developed electric drive rope winch by Zollern has seen its first use, on Russian rigs. As part of a highly sophisticated mobile drilling system to depths of 5,000 m, Zollern uses an asynchronous motor designed in-house to meet the performance requirements of the rope...

Echoscope in Cable Laying and Pull-In Operations

The CodaOctopus Echoscope sonar has been used for the first time to monitor the touchdown of a cable into a trench on the seabed. Using Echoscope, the operator was able to visualize in real time the cable’s catenary and touchdown point in three dimensions as it was being laid. Additionally, it was also used...