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Jumbo’s DP2 heavy lift vessel Jumbo Javelin installed the first nine transition pieces (TPs) for the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm in Denmark. DONG Energy is building Anholt Offshore Wind Farm. Jumbo is working for the Danish contractor MT Højgaard, who is in charge of installation of the...

Fairmount Marine’s tug Fairmount Expedition has delivered the semi- submersible drilling rig Scarabeo 6 safely in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for her dry-dock period at shipyard Keppel-Verolme. The 27 year old Scarabeo 6, owned by Italian offshore company Saipem, was towed from offshore Abu Qir, Egypt, towards...

Norway’s Aker Solutions signed a contract with Woodside Energy for the manufacture and supply of two 17 km electro-hydraulic steel tube umbilicals for the Greater Western Flank Phase 1 project on the northwest coast of Australia. The company also announced that it will open a new production facility in Malaysia in...

3sun Group – a specialist provider of products and services to the energy industry -announced the appointment of Neil Tawse as Business Development...

Oceanteam Shipping’s new build construction support vessel, the North Ocean 105, has begun a five year charter following delivery from shipyard Metalships in Vigo, Spain. The North Ocean 105 is the fifth vessel to be delivered with this concept developed by Oceanteam...

This month Bakker Sliedrecht’s Chinese production facility delivers the first of four water-cooled frequency drives for use on board cable layers in the SMIT/Boskalis offshore fleet. The delivery from the Bakker Marine Electric Zhangzhou plant in Xiamen marks a milestone in Bakker Sliedrecht’s entrance to the Chinese maritime...

Dutch-based heavy lift transporter Jumbo Shipping ordered a second new top-segment heavy lift vessel, thereby confirming its option for a sister ship to the new build currently under construction at Brodosplit shipyard in Croatia. Jumbo also decided to upgrade the lifting capacity of the ice class vessels from 1,300 to 1,500mt, enabling tandem lifts...

Brazilian shipyard Detroit Brasil is building two new MTU-powered handling tugs for Petrobras and Repsol service provider Starnav. Responsible for supporting the platform supply vessels, the two tugs each feature two MTU Series 4000 “Ironmen” engines rated at 2,000 kW at 1,800...

This month IHC Piping management and staff witnessed the symbolic driving in of the first pile in the construction of a new warehouse, distribution centre, another workshop and a new office in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands. IHC Piping says its expansion follows continuous growth at the IHC Merwede owned-company over recent...

Kongsberg Evotec will install its new Launch and Recovery System (E-LARS) for ROVs on a new subsea vessel for Forland Shipping. The system consists of both an ‘overboard’ system and a ‘moon pool’ system. It can handle work class ROVs with or without a tether management system to depths below 4000m. Currently under construction...

This year Heerema will install the 2,750t 90m York platform in the North Sea for Centrica Energy. The platform took just over one year to build at Heerema’s fabrication yard in Hartlepool, UK. It is the third successful project delivered by the partnership between Centrica Energy and Heerema, with the F3-FA self-installing platform celebrating...

Royal Boskalis Westminster will deploy two large backhoe dredging vessels in pipeline trenching and landfall construction for the Ichthys gas export pipeline development near Darwin, Australia. Boskalis will work on behalf of Saipem (Portugal) Comércio Marítimo on the contract, worth EUR 200...

Imtech Marine supplied propulsion and automation packages for three new build vessels under construction at Singapore shipyards. The vessels, all destined for the offshore oil and gas market, feature Imtech Marine advanced dynamic positioning (DP), diesel electric propulsion, vessel management (VMS), automation, navigation and...

Research vessels require their equipment to be reliable and able to work in adverse conditions. HATLAPA Marine Equipment prides itself in being able to offer a diverse portfolio of deck machinery with a selection of winches specifically designed for research vessels. HATLAPA’s expertise as well as the ability to customise its standard winches has...

In this issue of OSI – hitting mailboxes just before OTC 2013 (3 May) and of course available in Houston, too – we get up close with the heavyweights of heavy lift. On the cover, Saipem sets the tone with its semi-submersible crane and J-lay vessel Saipem 7000 at the Keppel Verolme yard. We...

The maritime industry trade fair SMM will be held for the 25th time this year at the Hamburg Fair site from 4-7 September 2012. SMM 2012 will feature more than 2,000 exhibitors from more than 60 countries on over 90,000 m2 of exhibition space, and more than 50,000 trade...

Wilton Engineering Services (WESL) Limited – the international design, engineering and fabrication business – has secured a multi-million pound contract with Subsea 7. Wilton Engineering, a Wilton Group company, will construct support clamps for work on DONG Energy’s SIRI Caisson Support Project in the Danish sector of the North...

Parker Hannifin Corporation (NYSE:PH) – the Ohio-based US company and leader in motion and control technologies – announced it acquired the US company Snap-tite Incorporated of Erie,...

Huisman, the worldwide specialist in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions, has secured new contracts with Technip, a world leader in project management, engineering and construction for the energy industry, for a 500mt Yard Crane and a 150mt Flexlay System. Both the crane and the pipelay system will be designed and...

On 4 April 2012 the keel was laid of Fugro Seacore and Van Oord’s large walking jack-up barge WaveWalker, which is set to begin operating in the field later in 2012 on drilling and blasting works for the new Brazilian Suape Outer Channel, a contract recently won by Van...

LDD, an Acteon company providing near and offshore drilling and foundation services, announced that its custom-built LD5000 pile top reverse circulation drilling rig has been delivered to Birkenhead, UK, where LDD will use it to provide critical pile relief drilling for the...

Trelleborg Offshore has further extended it capabilities and offering for the entire offshore industry after its Houston-based product testing facility underwent a significant redesign and renovation earlier this year. Representing a multi-million dollar investment for the company, the redesign of the state-of-the-art research and development facility has allowed Trelleborg to pro-actively upgrade its equipment...

Aker Solutions has successfully completed the manufacturing and subsequent load-out of eight subsea manifolds and six riser bases for Eni Norge’s Goliat project in the Barents Sea. “This is probably the largest single subsea delivery we have made from Egersund. I’m proud of my colleagues, and satisfied on behalf of our customer Eni Norge...

A gas leak on Total’s Elgin offshore platform forced the French energy group to evacuate crews in the North Sea because of the risk of explosion. The evacuation prompted Royal Dutch Shell to evacuate workers from their nearby offshore operations and stopped ships and aircrafts from entering the area. Total believes it may take...

Fairmount Marine‘s multipurpose support vessel Fairmount Fuji has assisted drillship Stena Forth, owned by Swedish Stena Drilling, when passing by Cape Town, South Africa. Fairmount Fuji was contracted to perform several cargo runs. Stena Forth anchored offshore Cape Town for crew changes and...