The Dutch have long dominated the heavy lifting market, especially offshore, and the country’s domination looks set to continue. Earlier this year, Allseas announced plans to build a new vessel that will top by 50% the capacity of its already enormous Pieter Schelte…
The Inez H. Eymard lift boat. Photo from Nick Welz, Tetra Tech Inc. Dominion Virginia Power is using L/B Inez H. Eymard for geotechnical site work this summer. Throughout July…
Huisman’s 900-tonne RL-KBC with long outreach. Photos from Huisman. Subsea 7’s Seven Arctic is due for delivery in 2016. Its 900-tonne capacity crane was developed in close cooperation with Huisman…
New specialist vessels have the potential to change the face of the decommissioning sector, but will they solve all the issues activity in this area continues to face? Alan Clifton takes a look. The Pieter Schelte…
Pelayaran Bahtera Adhiguna, a subsidiary of Indonesia's state-owned power company Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PT PLN) has contracted with Qingdao Wuchuan Heavy Industry’s shipyard in northern China to build the world's first compressed natural gas (CNG) carrier…
The American Petroleum Institute (API) published new guidelines for the design, manufacture and use of subsea capping stacks, equipment designed as part of industry’s emergency preparedness in the event of a spill at a wellhead on the ocean floor…
The Thermal Integrity Profiler (TIP) was awarded the 2015 winner of the Charles Pankow Award for Innovation by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The award celebrates collaboration in innovative design, materials, or construction…
Westermeerwind BV reached financial close on 25 July for the turnkey construction of the Westermeerwind wind farm in IJsselmeer, Netherlands. Work can now start on building the 48 wind turbines. The Westermeerwind wind farm consists of…
Gulf Island Fabrication has signed a cooperation agreement with Bechtel Oil, Gas, and Chemicals, Inc. to work together on offshore projects for the US Gulf of Mexico and abroad. Gulf Island Fabrication will offer its fabrication experience…
Italian contractor Saipem awarded Singapore-based Sembcorp Marine a US$484 million contract to convert two FPSOs for Total’s Kaombo project offshore Angola. Sembcorp subsidiary Sembawang Shipyard will convert two very large crude carriers…
Norway's Aibel has topped a recent string of contacts with a framework agreement with Statoil covering the supply of personnel to Statoil's projects in Norway and abroad. The agreement is in addition to Aibel's existing framework agreements with Statoil and is valid for one year…
The Crossover ball joint is a new and efficient dredge ball joint that provides optimal flow performance. Through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) the frictional losses and turbulence have been reduced to a minimum. Conventional dredge ball joints act like a ball valve when tilted…
Wood Group has boosted its Norwegian offshore engineering capability by buying Agility Projects from Agility Group for about US$164 million. Agility Projects is a Norwegian engineering, procurement, construction management, installation and commissioning company…
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (HHI), the world’s biggest shipbuilder and a leading offshore facilities contractor, announced that it has developed a new automatic welding process to build offshore facilities. The new hot-wire TIG…
Statoil has awarded Aibel a contract for the hook-up of new living quarters to the Oseberg C platform. The contract has an estimated value of about NOK 125 million. The project, called the Oseberg C Continuous Drilling (LQ Extension) project…