Despite slower than anticipated demand for well intervention services, service firms are ploughing ahead with new designs and solutions to help operators get more out of their wells. Elaine Maslin highlights some of the activity in the market…
The UK will remain the leading offshore wind power market globally by 2025, with its installed capacity increasing from 4.5GW in 2014 to 23.2GW by the end of the forecast period, representing an impressive compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30…
Royal IHC (IHC) has integrated four of its business units – IHC Hydrohammer, IHC Handling Systems, IHC Sea Steel and IHC Fundex Equipment – into one new organization, operating under the name IHC IQIP. All four IHC business units have already proved their capabilities on a global scale…
Distributed offshore engineering users of SACS V5.7 are benefiting from the extended information mobility provided through the software’s integration with the ProjectWise project delivery solution as well as enhanced integration with both MOSES and AutoPIPE…
Royal IHC acquired a majority stake in Brazilian-based Brastec Technologies. Brastec Technologies designs and builds custom production lines for the production of umbilicals and flexible pipes. The company said the agreement allows them…
FoundOcean and BASF signed a strategic agreement to aim to reduce the cost of and increase efficiency when installing offshore wind structures. BASF’s MasterFlow 9500 is the only product to have obtained the type approval certificate from certifying body DNV GL…
IHC Engineer Business’ Hi-Traq trenching system, launched in May. Photos from Royal IHC. Elaine Maslin spoke to Bram Roelse, the CEO at Royal IHC—the new name for Dutch firm IHC Merwede. Last…
Sander Vergroesen, IRO’s managing director Dutch offshore suppliers are innovating to keep ahead, providing solutions in ever deeper and colder waters globally. IRO’s Sander Vergroesen spoke to Elaine Maslin…
UK-based offshore vessel operator Seajacks has taken delivery of its fourth vessel, Hydra (pictured), from Dubai-based oil and gas engineering and fabrication firm Lamprell. Hydra is the fourth vessel Lamprell has built for Seajacks, which has a fifth vessel…
IHC Merwede has announced that it has appointed Bram Roelse as the company’s new CEO with immediate effect as of 1 April 2014. He has taken over this leading role within the company from predecessor Dirk Philips who stepped back in November 2013…
Brazil's President Maria das Graças Silva Foster and Director of Exploration and Production, José Formigli, announced the start of the seventh and final round of the Fleet Renewal Plan for Offshore Support Vessels (Prorefam). The Brazilian…
Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. has agreed to acquire ALP Maritime Services B.V., a Netherlands-based provider of long-haul ocean towage and offshore installation services to the global offshore oil and gas industry. ALP currently provides…
The Executive Board of Petrobras approved contracts for eight support vessels for the company's offshore activities. These are part of the Third Fleet Renewal Plan for Offshore Support Vessels (Prorefam). In this fifth round, four vessels were contracted from the company Bram…
IHC Merwede has been successful in securing orders worth US$473 million for a wide range of dredging and offshore vessels and equipment. The company’s dredging division has won new contracts for the delivery of a large custom-built trailing suction hopper dredger…
Cape Wind clears another hurdleThe Cape Wind offshore wind power project in January received a final permit from the US Environmental Protection Agency to begin construction of the first US offshore wind farm. The agency's approval came a…
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