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CMM contracts Damen for five OSRV’s

Compagnie Maritime Monégasque SAM has recently secured contracts with Petrobras Brazil to charter five new-build Fast Oil Spill Response Vessels with a new and innovative, highly fuel-efficient Damen axe-bow design. [Read more…]

Tocardo breidt uit door overname IHC Tidal Energy

Tocardo Tidal Turbines uit Den Oever, producent van vrijstaande waterkrachtturbines, neemt IHC Tidal Energy over. De inlijving van de getijdenenergiedivisie van Royal IHC is een nieuwe stap in de expansie van Tocardo’s activiteiten in Nederland en daarbuiten. [Read more…]

DeepOcean lays keel for new cable layer

DeepOcean UK, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, has announced the symbolic keel laying ceremony has taken place in Galati, officially launching the construction phase of its new cable lay vessel. DeepOcean says that the vessel, yet to be named, will be taken on a long term charter from Maersk, and will extend DeepOcean’s capabilities in the larger cable laying end of the market, representing a new focus on interconnector projects, in addition to the oil and gas and renewables sectors. [Read more…]

Van Oord sets Subsea Rock installation world record

Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes has set a world record. During a period of four weeks, Stornes placed rock in water depths of up to 1,277 metres. The Subsea Rock installation works were executed in relation to the development of the Aasta Hansteen gas field and Polarled pipeline in the Norwegian Sea. [Read more…]

South Stream ready for offshore construction

South Stream Transport, a consortium between Gazprom, Eni S.p.A., EDF, and Wintershall, is ready to begin offshore construction of its South Stream gas pipeline project. According to a statement on the Gazprom website, construction of the first and the second strings of the offshore gas pipeline is the most complicated part of the project. [Read more…]

VBMS successfully completes umbilical installation

VBMS has successfully completed a remote platform tie-back project – platform L8-P4 to L6-B – for Wintershall Noordzee B.V. The scope of work for VBMS consisted of the engineering, installation and burial of a 19.5 kilometre umbilical, at a water depth of 29 meters. [Read more…]

Eni hires Vroon’s VOS Hestia

ENI Spa has awarded Vroon Offshore Services’ VOS Hestia a long-term contract. It will perform duties as a utility vessel in the Adriatic, operating from ENI Spa’s base in Ravenna, Italy. The vessel will be employed in maintenance, utility and stand-by services, as well as for routine supplies and towage duties. [Read more…]

Flinke wijzigingen SDE+ subsidie 2015

Vandaag (12 november) heeft de Voorzitter van de Tweede Kamer een kamerstuk (11 pagina’s) ontvangen van minister Kamp (Economische Zaken, VVD). Net als in 2014 wordt voor het komende jaar 2015 een budget van 3,5 miljard euro beschikbaar gesteld om een bijdrage te leveren aan de doelstellingen van 14% hernieuwbare energie in 2020 en 16% in 2023. [Read more…]

Tulip buys PA Resources’ Dutch North Sea acreage

PA Resources has reached agreement to divest its 30 percent interest in Netherlands offshore Blocks Q7 and Q10a to Tulip Oil. Tulip Oil will pay a consideration of GBP 1 million (SEK 12 million) on completion of the transaction, with a further payment contingent on certain asset milestones being met. [Read more…]

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