Subsea 7 Updates Board Member Roles
Subsea 7 has updated its board responsibilities following the changes to board membership approved at the company’s AGM held on April 17, 2017. Namely, Allen Stevens has been appointed senior independent director and will serve as chairman of the corporate governance and Nomination Committee. Appointed a non-executive independent director from January 2011. Prior […]
Proserv Opens Great Yarmouth Centre of Excellence
Proserv has officially opened its new purpose-built Centre of Excellence within Great Yarmouth’s Beacon Park. Developer, Great Yarmouth Borough Council, together with New Anglia LEP and key stakeholders, joined Proserv at the 65,000 sq ft ‘Artemis House’ to mark the occasion. Davis Larssen, COO of Proserv, said: “Having just began building this […]
InterMoor Delivers FSO Benchamas 2 Job
InterMoor, part of subsea services group Acteon, has recently completed work for the installation of the new floating storage and offloading (FSO) facility Benchamas 2. Previously, the Benchamas Explorer FSO, owned and operated by Chevron, was installed in 1999 in Block B8/32 in the Gulf of Thailand. The FSO began initial production […]
Bibby Offshore Nets North Sea IRM Deal
Bibby Offshore has secured a two-phase multi million pound contract with an unnamed oil and gas and production company. The contract will see Bibby Offshore carry out inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) services across a number of the operators North Sea assets. Engineering work for the project has already started, with the […]
IMCA Gets New President | Subsea World News
International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has named Iain Grainger as its new president and chairman of the board. Iain, vice president commercial at McDermott, takes over from Harke Jan Meek. In addition, Pieter Heerema from Allseas has become the new vice president. Iain Grainger said: “My aim is to increase the impact […]
Van Oord Names SRI Vessel Bravenes in Rotterdam
Van Oord has unveiled its subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel Bravenes at the Wilhelminakade in Rotterdam on Monday. The SRI vessel Bravenes was christened by Yvon van Oord-Barbier, the wife of CEO Pieter van Oord. The Bravenes is the third vessel to join Van Oord’s SRI fleet. SRI vessels stabilize and protect subsea […]
Telford Clinches Offshore Mexico Contract
Telford Offshore has been awarded a contract for topsides, subsea and accommodation support services by Protexa for its DP3 multipurpose offshore construction vessel, Telford 31. Mobilisation in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico, took place early May 2018. The shallow water project (around 40-70m water depth) calls for using Telford 31 at Kab-C, […]
WHOI Provides New Details on San Jose Shipwreck Discovery
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has obtained authorization to release new details from the search for the San José shipwreck, a 62-gun, three-masted Spanish galleon ship. WHOI obtained authorization by Maritime Archaeology Consultants (MAC), Switzerland AG, and the Colombian government. The ship, which is often called the “holy grail of shipwrecks,” went down with a […]
Rawwater Hires New Business Development Manager
Rawwater, the UK-based specialists in contract research and consultancy services for facilities design, oilfield souring and well abandonment, has employed Mike Mooney as business development manager. Before joining Rawwater, Mooney was employed as a business development/sales manager with oilfield chemicals specialists Reda Oilfield. Prior to that, he provided specialist consultancy services globally. […]