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Aquatic introduces modular carousel system

Oct 03, 2013

Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd, an Acteon company, has unveiled its 1500 te carousel (AQCS‐01‐1500) a powerful, modular drive system representing a significant capability extension for customers requiring installation or replacement of flexibles…

Cortez works on FPSO

Sep 16, 2013

Subsea services and technology company Cortez Subsea has been awarded £1.5million of contracts across its pipeline installation and decommissioning services during Q3, 2013. The Aberdeen-based firm has completed the first phase of work on a North Sea floating production…

PGS unveils its Ramform Titan platform in Nagasaki, Japan

Jun 14, 2013

PGS unveiled its Ramform Titan platform in Nagasaki, Japan. The platform has a 70m broad stern and is equipped with 24 streamer reels, 16 reels aligned abreast and 8 reels further forward. “The Ramform Titan will spend her first season working on multi-client projects in the North Sea…

Reeled pipelay vessel for ultra‐deepwater field developments

May 22, 2013

Reeled pipelay has normally been used in fully developed and matured offshore oil and gas field areas with close proximity to onshore support, onshore logistics, and with short offshore transit distance to onshore spoolbases for loading the pipeline stalks onto the reel…

Cortez Subsea grows team

May 16, 2013

Subsea services and technology products company Cortez Subsea has announced plans for further growth in 2013 with three new appointments reflecting recent business success. Cortez Subsea was established in 2010 and achieved turnover of over £3 million in 2012…

OTC.13: Subsea 7 on heated pipelines

May 08, 2013

Technology is a big focus for Subsea 7 during OTC week, with a raft of speakers from the firm talking on everything from Pipe-in-Pipe (PIP) developments to deepwater solutions.  The firm’s latest kit—including the Seven Borealis—is also on show at the firm’s booth (1641)…

Jumbo on EnQuest subsea installation project

May 03, 2013

One of Jumbo’s heavy lift & installation vessels, the Fairplayer, is in Rotterdam preparing for a subsea installation project. Jumbo’s Fairplayer will be executing the installation of the mooring spread for the EnQuest Producer FPSO. This FPSO will be operating at the Alma and Galia fields…

OTC.13: Subsea 7 technology focus

May 02, 2013

Subsea 7, a global leader in seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services, will be exhibiting its innovative technologies and why it is the technology partner of choice for many in the offshore energy industry, at OTC 2013 from 6 to 9 May in Houston…

Ramform Titan named

Apr 26, 2013

Safety, efficiency and productivity are the key features of the 24-streamer Ramform Titan which was named today at MHI yard in Nagasaki, Japan.  The new ship will be the most powerful and efficient marine seismic acquisition vessel ever and the widest ship in the world at the waterline…

MDL to create 400 tonne reel drive

Mar 25, 2013

Maritime Developments (MDL), a leading provider of back-deck equipment for the subsea sector of oil and gas industry sector, has secured its largest contract to date.MDL, based in Peterhead and Aberdeen, will provide a 400-tonne reel drive system…

Martyn Conroy Spreading the word

Mar 22, 2013

Martyn Conroy Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd., an Acteon company, named Martyn Conroy its new business development manager covering the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. Conroy previously worked for Ashtead Technology, FirstSubsea and Hydratight…

Surf and turf

Jan 04, 2013

With the acquisition of the Caesar and Express pipelay vessels, recent delivery of the Lewek Connector and anticipation mounting over the newbuild Lewek Constellation ice-class multi-lay vessel, Emas AMC is aiming for a share of the high-end offshore construction business…

Offshore rope trick

Aug 01, 2012

With the recent completion in Johor, Malaysia, of the first phase of its new $100 million wire rope manufacturing plant, Kiswire believes it is now well placed to deal with the greater demands made of such products as the offshore industry moves into ever-deeper waters…

Dutch duo on the move

Apr 01, 2012

The Dutch know a thing or two about lifting, transporting and installing offshore structures having for many years been in the vanguard of such activities around the world. Meg Chesshyre catches up with two leading exponents of the heavy lift art…

Johor plants raises wire rope stakes

Sep 01, 2011

A new steel wire rope plant is taking shape for Kiswire on the Malaysian coast with the present and future needs of the offshore industry very much in mind.Of the 130,000t of wire rope the company already produces annually, some 30,000t is…

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