Pipeshield Scour Protection for East Anglia One
Pipeshield International has secured a contract from DeepOcean to supply the scour protection for the East Anglia One offshore wind farm. Over 300 bespoke fronded concrete mattresses have been manufactured at the port of Great Yarmouth within close proximity of the deep water berth. Fronds are a dense carpet of strands, like a […]
Proserv Boosts Norway Subsea Team with New CTO
Proserv has promoted Tore Erntsen to the position of chief technology officer (CTO), Subsea Controls, based at the firm’s Trondheim facility in Norway. Prior to taking on his new role, Tore was vice president, engineering and technology, within the subsea team. Tore joined Proserv in 2012 when the firm took over the […]
Sonomatic to Expand Aberdeen Base
Sonomatic has announced expansion plans to provide additional radiography capacity within its base at The Core, Bridge of Don, bringing the total number of bays available to five. Just three years ago, Sonomatic invested in building a brand multi-disciplined facility covering the entire range of NDT Inspections, housing three radiography, one hydro testing bay and […]
ABP Humber Adds New 3D Mobile Laser Scanner
ABP Humber has increased its technology for hydrographic surveying with the purchase of a new Carlson Merlin lidar scanner supplied by Swathe Services. The Merlin is a vessel-based 3D mobile laser scanner system developed specifically for coastal, offshore and inland waterway surveying. ABP Humber intends to use the system for quay wall […]
More Red Ink for Akastor
Oilfield services investment company Akastor recorded loss of NOK 492 million ($57 million) for the fourth-quarter 2018 compared to loss of NOK 380 million ($44 million) same time in 2017. The result for the fourth quarter was primarily impacted by non-cash items from financial investments, the company said. Result for the full-year […]
Quintillion Ex-CEO Pleads Guilty to Fraud
The former chief executive officer of Quintillion – the Alaska-based company constructing a subsea fiber optic/broadband network – has pleaded guilty to fraudulently inducing investors to commit more than $250 million into her company for the construction of a fiber-optic cable network in Alaska. Elizabeth Ann Pierce was at the helm of Quintillion until July 2017. […]
Boskalis Repairs Offshore Wind Farm Inter-Array Cables
Royal Boskalis has signed a sizable contract for the replacement and repair of a part of the inter-array cables at an offshore wind farm. The contract has a value of approximately EUR 80 million. Boskalis will utilize three anchored barge spreads, including the cable repair assets Bokabarge 82 and recently acquired BoDo Constructor […]
Trendsetter Delivers Leviathan Subsea Kit
Trendsetter Engineering has completed the design and build of subsea production equipment for Noble Energy’s Leviathan project, a natural gas field development in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel. Trendsetter’s scope of work included multiple clamp connection systems, subsea distribution equipment, MEG filter modules, 2” connection systems and subsea […]
Wreckage of WWII Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet Found in South Pacific
Wreckage of the World War II aircraft carrier USS Hornet was recently discovered by the expedition crew of Paul G. Allen’s research vessel (R/V) Petrel. Hornet was found 5,400 meters below the surface, resting on the floor of the South Pacific Ocean around the Solomon Islands. Hornet was best known for its part in the […]