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Seatools Wins Taiwan offshore Gig

Jan 13, 2020

Dutch subsea technology company Seatools  has won a contract to design and deliver a piling template hydraulic and instrumentation system to be used on an offshore wind farm in Taiwan.According to Seatools, the order was placed by ”an undisclosed engineering…

Sapura Orders Osbit System for Yunlin OWP

Nov 21, 2019

UK offshore equipment supplier has been awarded a contract to design and build an offshore wind turbine pile gripper system, by Malaysian-based global energy services provider Sapura Energy.The pile gripper will initially be used to support the development of WPD’s Yunlin offshore wind farm…

Bauer Tests Piles for OWF in France

Oct 06, 2019

German construction and machinery manufacturing firm Bauer Spezialtiefbau has tested onshore piles at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project in France to gather data for the design of foundations.The engineering outfit  designed, installed and…

Van Oord Completes Foundation for EA1

Jul 19, 2019

Dutch maritime contracting company Van Oord has installed the last jacket foundation for offshore wind farm East Anglia ONE (EA1) and delivered it to client ScottishPower Renewables.Van Oord was in charge of the transportation and installation…

Trelleborg expands with skirt pile gripper

Sep 18, 2017

Trelleborg’s engineered products operation is growing its portfolio of offshore floatover solutions, with a custom designed skirt pile gripper. Add to this its grout seal, diaphragm closure and grout packer products, and Trelleborg customers…

Webtool develops Cable Retrieval Tool

Feb 24, 2017

Hydraulic systems specialist, Webtool, has developed a gripping and lifting tool for recovering subsea umbilical and cable for offshore oil and gas and decommissioning projects. The Cable Retrieval Tool (CRT200), developed in consultation…

Webtool features cable gripper at Subsea Expo

Jan 10, 2017

Webtool, a hydraulic cutting tools provider, will highlight its latest cable gripper and retrieval tools, and electrically operated subsea cutters at Subsea Expo 2017.  The stand will feature the Webtool cable gripper, which allows the…

Fighting wellhead fatigue

Dec 01, 2016

Jerry Lee examines Trendsetter Engineering’s Tether BOP system, which aims to curb fatigue and improve wellhead performance. Close-up of a pile top assembly. Images from Trendsetter Engineering…

Software engineering

Nov 01, 2016

National Instruments’ Charlotte Nicolaou shows how software systems are helping to create installation tools as well as helping to design offshore wind systems in the renewables sector. Houlder’s pile gripper arms…

Kvaerner receives Sverdrup jacket components

Oct 06, 2016

The first of two shipments of pile clusters and flotation tanks arrived at Kvaerner’s yard at Verdal earlier this week (4 October), which will be installed on the first and largest steel jacket for the Johan Sverdrup projects, currently under construction at Verdal…

Seatools gets Seaway pile template instrumentation contract

Oct 04, 2016

Seaway Heavy Lifting has awarded Dutch subsea technology company Seatools a contract for the design and delivery of a piling template instrumentation and control system.  The contract includes the complete mechanical, electric, hydraulic…

Houlder in Rampion wind farm tool delivery

Apr 07, 2016

Houlder delivered the first of two offshore pile upending tools for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm development, off the UK’s Sussex coast. Image of Houlder's offshore pile upending tools, from Houlder…

Jumbo transports piles destined for Prelude

Dec 15, 2015

Image from Jumbo. Jumbo's J-class vessels Jumbo Jubilee and Fairpartner were scheduled to transport 16 piles to Shell's Prelude field, site of the world's first FLNG vessel, off the coast of northwest Australia…

SPT Offshore gets LOI for Ophir wellhead platform

Dec 07, 2015

SPT Offshore has received the letter of intent (LOI) for the detailed design of the suction pile foundation, design supervision of the jacket and full transportation and installation of the Ophir wellhead platform from Muhibbah Engineering…

CIS completes Technip subsea piling campaign

Nov 16, 2015

Conductor Installation Services (CIS) successfully completed its second subsea piling campaign for Technip in Norway.  Deck Layout close-up. Image from Technip. CIS used its remotely operated Subsea Piling System…

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