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LUX Assure has launched the OMMICA detection kit, following successful field trials with North Sea oil majors, designed to determine the concentration of methanol or monoethylene glycol (MEG) in oil or water. Operators in Africa, Australia and Europe have already adopted OMMICA and sales to North America and Brazil are anticipated in early 2012. Sales...

IHC Engineering Business has acquired an order from Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. for a 5,000t capacity basket carousel cable lay system. This is the first in a series of major cable and pipelay orders that IHC EB are expecting to secure in the very near future. The new carousel, scheduled for delivery in Q3...

In July 2011 A2SEA acquired a 29% share interest in the Danish cable installation company CT Offshore. A2SEA has now decided to increase their shareholding in the company to 67%. The remaining 33% of the shares are still owned by CT Offshore’s founder and CEO, Paw Cortes: “A2SEA is the perfect partner for us in respect...

Technip USA, Inc. has contracted Lankhorst Ropes to manufacture the polyester mooring ropes for the Lucius truss spar hull for the US Gulf of Mexico. Chris Johnson, sales director, Lankhorst Ropes Offshore Division, said, “We are delighted to be working with Technip again. The Lucius contract is testimony to Lankhorst’s well proven, high quality...

Pasi Lehtonen has been appointed as senior vice president of Cargotec‘s Offshore business segment, effective from the beginning of January. “Our competence centres for advanced load-handling in Kristiansand, Norway, and for winches in Singapore, offer their services for our global customers”, says Olli Isotalo, executive vice president, Marine. “Pasi Lehtonen will bring vast general...

Wilton Engineering Services Limited (WESL) announces the award of a significant UK North Sea contract with ConocoPhillips. The award to fabricate the Long Term Compression (LTC) module for the Britannia field will create up to 100 new jobs with a further 150 sub-contract jobs taking the total to 250 jobs for Teesside. Britannia is a gas...

IHC Offshore Systems, part of IHC Merwede, has been awarded a rental contract for the Noise Mitigation System NMS-6900. Dutch offshore contractor Seaway Heavy Lifting will operate the NMS-6900 during the installation of 30 monopile foundations for the Riffgat offshore wind farm off the north-west coast of Germany. The contract was signed by Mr W....

Subsea 7 announced today the award of a SURF contract valued at approximately USD 60 million from Santos Limited on the Fletcher-Finucane Development offshore Western Australia. The contract scope includes the project management, engineering and installation of approximately 55 km of flexible flowlines and over 60 km of umbilicals, associated structures to connect the wells to...

Kongsberg Maritime announces that it will lead a new research project called ‘Situation Awareness and Decision Support Tools for demanding marine operations’ (SITAWARE), which kicks-off on 2 February 2012. The project is part-funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Academic research partners Chalmers University in Sweden, Vestfold University College and Haugesund University College in Norway will...

As part of an ongoing commitment to carbon fibre processing, Metyx Composites invested in a new MAX 5 carbon reinforcement production line. This is the most recent in a series of investments planned for 2012 at the Metyx headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey and at its new Manisa, Turkey facility. The company plans to offer a new generation of...

Caley Ocean Systems has supplied two, large capacity, 2,500t turntables to Global Marine Systems Ltd (GMSL) to handle deployment of non-coilable cables from their vessel CS Sovereign. Caley has worked closely with GMSL, and their naval architects, to design the two turntables such that they can be built within the existing onboard cable tanks....

In the last quarter of 2011 Cargotec secured contracts for MacGregor bulk handling systems for installation onboard four offshore support vessels newbuildings belonging to two different owners. one in the UAE (two vessels) and the other in Spain (two vessels). “For the owners, it was important that the vessels were fitted with simple and well...

ABS Group of Companies, Inc. concluded its acquisition of Safetec Nordic AS, with a signing ceremony attended by senior ABS, ABS Group and Safetec management in Trondheim, Norway, on 5 January 2012. ABS chairman Robert D. Somerville commented: “We are pleased to be closing the Safetec acquisition. This is an agreement which will enable ABS...

SAL‘s heavy lift vessel (HLV) Lone has completed her upgrade from DP class I to DP Class II. The HLV, which is part of the SAL fleet, was upgraded during December last in the dry-dock of the German shipyard Norderwerft (Sietas Group) in Hamburg. With this configuration, her service speed of 20 knots and...

Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract for eight steel tube umbilicals by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for the Lucius field located in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 275 miles (442 km) southwest of Fourchon, Louisiana in Keathley Canyon (KC) Block 874, 875 and 919, in a water depth of around 7,000 ft (2,100 m)....

FMC Technologies, Inc. has announced that it has signed an agreement with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation to provide subsea systems and life-of-field services for its Lucius project. The Lucius field is located approximately 275 miles southeast of Galveston in Keathley Canyon Block 875, in water depths of approximately 7,100 ft (2,160 m). FMC’s scope of...

Recently, Huisman successfully completed the installation and load testing of a Huisman-designed and -built 17m super fly jib for one of the heavy lift mast cranes onboard BigLift Shipping‘s Happy Buccaneer. Heavy lift shipping company BigLift Shipping purchased this 17m long fly jib to increase outreach and lifting height for upcoming projects . The super fly jib...

Harvey Gulf International Marine has selected ABS as the class society for its two new dual fueled LNG-powered offshore supply vessels being constructed at Trinity Offshore LLC. The STX Marine Inc SV310DF offshore support vessels (OSVs) are also to receive environmentally-friendly notations from ABS, including ENVIRO+, denoting that the vessels adhere to enhanced environmental standards, POT...

Statoil ASA has together with its partners Eni Norge AS and Petoro AS made a substantial oil discovery in the Havis prospect in the same licence as Skrugard (PL532) in the Barents Sea. This is the second high-impact discovery in the North in nine months. Well 7220/7-1, drilled by the drilling rig Aker Barents,...

Jumbo Shipping has donated USD 10,000 to the Ronald McDonald House in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Jumbo Shipping had doubled the sum it received as part of Technip‘s Project Safety Incentive Scheme for a “worthy cause” for their performance on the ASENG field. Jumbo Shipping joined the initiative, doubling the amount to USD 10,000. The...

Tug Fairmount Sherpa has successfully towed jack-up drilling rig Baharia I to her new position in the Zeit Bay oil field in the Gulf of Suez. The Fairmount Sherpa is one of five supertugs owned by Rotterdam based Fairmount Marine. The rig move for Egyptian oil company Zeitco came just after delivering the semi-submersible...

Subsea 7 is awarded a SURF contract valued at approximately USD 185 million from Elf Exploration UK Limited on the West Franklin Field in the Central Graben area of the North Sea. The contract includes engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation and commissioning of the Sealines Package associated with the West Franklin Phase 2 Development. Engineering and...

Wärtsilä is to supply the design and propulsors/positioning system for a series of two new flexible pipe laying vessels. The vessels will be built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). The owner and operator of the vessels is a joint venture formed between France-based energy industry company, Technip and the Brazilian oil & gas industry company,...

Statoil has been awarded operatorship for blocks 38 and 39 and partner position in blocks 22, 25, 40 in the Kwanza basin in Angola. This follows the conclusion of the competitive Limited International Bidding Round organised by Sonangol for access to pre-salt acreage in the Kwanza Basin offshore Angola. Statoil is already partner and...

BP yesterday confirmed that it has gained access to five more deepwater exploration and production blocks offshore Angola. These give BP a leading position in Angola, with interests in nine blocks accounting for a total acreage of 32,650 sq. km. In Luanda, in the presence of Sonangol‘s president Manuel Vincente and BP group chief executive...