Our Maritime Business Magazines

Oceanteam Solutions has entered into a three-year agreement for rental of its 4,000t carousel for the ultimate client Global Marine Group. The client has the option to extend this agreement with a total of five years. Start of project will be end of February 2020. For this specific project, the 4,000t carousel will be...

Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Keppel Shipyard, has delivered the world’s fastest brownfield Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) modification and upgrading project safely and on time. Named FPSO Abigail-Joseph, the vessel was delivered to Yinson Nepeta Production (Yinson), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yinson Holdings Berhad. Mr Chris...

New DNV GL research based on more than 1,000 failure cases has revealed that tubes and piping are the most failure-prone components in the oil and gas and maritime industries. Fatigue and corrosion are the most common failure types. The research is based on cases from DNV GL’s global network of five laboratories in...

ASCO has been awarded a five-year extension, with options for a further six years by CNOOC Petroleum Europe, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC, to support all the operator’s North Sea assets. The contract, worth in excess of EUR 119 million, will see ASCO continue to provide a fully managed and integrated, logistics, materials management,...

Fugro has successfully completed a second marine unexploded ordnance (UXO) risk mitigation project for TenneT, this time on a cable route survey as part of the construction of the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore windfarm. The 13-month project involved surveying the route for explosive remnants of war (ERW), including munitions dumped at sea after conflict,...

Wintershall Noordzee (a 50:50 Joint Venture of Wintershall Dea and Gazprom EP International) has successfully started gas production from its operated cross-border development Sillimanite. Discovered in June 2015, the unitised gas field stretches across the UK and the Dutch Continental Shelves. “The safe delivery and start-up of production of this exceptional cross-border development project...

Last December 2019, Jumbo – the heavy lift shipping and offshore T&I contractor – awarded KENC with multiple engineering assignments. The scope entailed engineering and FEM calculations to prepare Jumbo’s Fairplayer, a DP2 heavy lift crane vessel (HLCV), for an FPSO installation job offshore Brazil. The assignments included engineering of a 192t gypsy winch...

Airborne Oil & Gas has been awarded its most significant flowlines contract to date which will see the world’s leading manufacturer of thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) deliver a record 10km length of its technology to a supermajor in West Africa. This is the second award for TCP Flowline from the E&P organisation and follows...

Following calls for great vessel versatility offshore Damen has developed a new concept vessel – the Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) 9020. The vessel features a stable platform with lots of accommodation, good station-keeping capability, low carbon emissions and lots of flexibility to add mission-specific tools. “We were approached by several different operators at the...

The technology group Wärtsilä has introduced an agreement-based Power Solution for new normally unattended offshore installations (NUIs). The solution provides the asset with up to six months of operating time without planned maintenance activity onboard, thus enabling significant cost savings. It is a holistic power solution that can be tailored according to the requirements...

An international Ocean Renewable Energy Action Coalition has been formed to advance sustainable deployment of ocean-based renewable energy and mitigate the harmful impacts of climate change. Ocean-based renewable energy, such as offshore wind, floating solar, tidal and wave power, could meet nearly 10% of the annual greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed by 2050 to...

Mammoet confirms that as of 8 January 8, 2020, the acquisition of ALE has been completed, and the businesses will now operate as one company under the Mammoet brand. Over the coming months a fully developed integration plan will be rolled out that will focus on bringing the two organisations together while maintaining safe...

Total and Apache have made a material oil discovery with the Maka Central-1 well on Block 58 offshore Surinam, on trend with the prolific discoveries in the adjacent Stabroek block in Guyana. The Maka Central-1 well was drilled by a water depth of about 1,000m and encountered more than 123m net pay of high-quality...

After the extension of their land activities into Asia in 2019, Roll Group starts 2020 with the addition of another Module Carrier to their fleet. Roll Group officially took ownership of an additional vessel. With a length of 146m, a width of 32m and 12,285t deadweight, this Module Carrier is slightly smaller than the...

H2M officially opens its new office in Denmark! In the past years H2M has been growing in Denmark. Customer demands were plenty, so to provide better services, expand offices and create new projects, the company decided to have their own space in Esjberg. The new office will strengthen H2M’s presence and offers dedicated space...

Shipyard De Hoop is celebrating its 130th anniversary as a designer, engineer and builder of custom-built vessels. For the occasion, the company hosted a big celebration in November 2019. The event was held in the yard’s own welding shed, which gave it an industrial yet domestic feel. Some 700 people of around 20 nationalities...

The Dutch Van Aalst Group launched its first bond offering on the NPEX platform on 21 October 2019. The € 5 million fixed rate 5-year bond offer was fully subscribed as the offering attracted strong demand from the investors. “The listing of our company and the first bond offering is another step in acquiring...

A new compensation format will help improve efficiency as Equinor awards new framework agreements for safety and automation systems with five suppliers. The framework agreements cover operation of all the company’s installations on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) and onshore plants in Norway. They may also be used by the company’s international activities and...

To be able to offer the total package of services to the offshore wind industry DEME is investing in its first Service Operation Vessel (SOV) for windfarm maintenance. Concepted by DEME and further designed in close cooperation with Vuyk Engineering Rotterdam and Marin, this innovative vessel significantly improves safety, comfort and workability for windfarm technicians...

Tuesday 10 December, Zakaria Sachhi, Naval Architect at Royal Roos has won both the KNVTS Maritime Student Award and the Verolme ‘Best of the Best’ Graduate Award, with his thesis on an offshore barge connected lifting tool to efficiently decommission wind turbines by pulling instead of cutting. The thesis was carried out for Rotterdam...

Sylvia Boer (37) has been appointed as the new Director of Amsterdam IJmuiden Offshore Ports (AYOP) and will take up her role on 1 February 2020. She will serve as the linchpin between members of the association for offshore companies, government bodies and stakeholders. Ms Boer’s appointment is designed to leverage on the major...

Marine Performance Systems (MPS) is the winner of the Offshore Wind Innovation Challenge 2019. This company has found a solution for noise reduction during piling. For an interested audience their presentation convinced the jury the most. The three other finalists were Arc Marine, Witteveen & Bos and Tribosonics. MPS is an engineering company that develops...

On 10 December Equinor completed the acquisition of a 50% interest in the offshore wind development project Bałtyk I in Poland from Polenergia. The company now has an interest in all three Bałtyk offshore wind development projects. “The acquisition of Baltyk I strengthens our presence in the Baltic Sea area. With interest in all...

Oceaneering International used four 10t capacity remotely operated vehicle (ROV) hooks from RUD to fulfill two major subsea contracts recently. Both in the Gulf of Mexico. The products were sourced from RUD distributor LiftPull. First, Oceaneering used the hooks to install long baseline (LBL) transponder frames, weighing 900kg each, at specified subsea locations. Oceaneering...

The N-Sea-BODAC joint venture has announced significant investment in the further development of its specialist UXO provision. Formed in 2016, the joint venture (JV) has demonstrated year-on-year commercial growth. In that time, it has built a formidable track record in UXO survey, identification and disposal, complemented by three years of SHEQ incident-free operations. BODAC CEO,...