Leighton Offshore yesterday launched the newest edition to the fleet, the Leighton MPV-1 cable lay vessel, at the Al Jazeera Port in Ras Al Khaimah. The MPV -1 will be mobilised to undertake the cable lay scope of the $799m Phase 1 Iraq Crude Oil Export Expansion Project (ICOEEP) currently underway. The MPV-1 will also [...]
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OSD-IMT, the UK arm of Offshore Ship Designers, has been chosen by Samsung and Boskalis-SMIT Engineering to develop the basic design, detailed design and production drawings for a 99 m cable laying vessel. Neil Patterson, managing director of OSD-IMT, says, “This project illustrates perfectly the strengths of the OSD group. We can bring strong offshore [...]
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On 24th April, COSCO Lianyungang Shipyard accommodated its first offshore vessel – “Maersk Responder”, the Cable laying vessel which belongs to the largest shipping company Maersk Line. Maersk Supply Service have 65 different kinds of marine service vessels; they can provide various services such as offshore drilling, marine cable laying, platform supply and other offshore [...]
Fugro has reached agreement with JDR Cable Systems (Netherlands) Ltd to acquire JDR Cable Systems Holdings Netherlands BV and its marine cable subsidiary JDR Cable Systems BV, together comprising JDR’s Marine Cables division. JDR Marine Cables designs and produces special marine cables for oil and gas (subsea lead-in cables, array cables, control cables), geophysical (airgun [...]
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Shell Cili Padi power cable installation marks another important milestone to SBSS’s contribution to the Oil & Gas. The project requires the precision laying and interconnection of 31.76km of power cable between platforms F23R-A and CDPR-A (Cili-Padi) situated in Sarawak Malaysia. This power line is vital to oil production and is critical for the [...]
Siem Offshore Inc. (“the Company”) announces that it will enter into the business for submarine cable installation, repair and maintenance projects. The Company has identified the installation of submarine cables and associated services to be an emerging growing market, both with respect to field and landfall cables in the offshore oil and gas industry, and [...]
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ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has signed a cooperation agreement with Canyon Offshore for trenching services to support ABB’s subsea high-voltage cable installation projects. “Subsea cables are increasingly being deployed for interconnections and offshore wind integration projects,” said Martin Gross, head of ABB’s Grid Systems business, within the Power Systems division. [...]
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Draka Offshore announced that Keppel Singmarine has selected Draka as a cable supplier for its production of Hull 362 for Royal Boskalis Westminster. “It is always gratifying to receive orders from a renowned shipbuilding yard like Keppel Singmarine,” stated Patrick Ang, vice president of the marine segment for Draka Offshore. “We strive to provide our [...]
Global Marine Systems has announced the successful completion of the Gjøa power cable installation. Gjøa is the first ever floating platform to have power supplied by a direct link from shore, and will contribute to a greener source of energy, reducing carbon emissions by an estimated 210,000 tonnes a year. Working together, Global Marine Systems [...]
LS Cable (Chairman & CEO Christopher Koo) announced that the company has succeeded in the development and commercialization of an umbilical cable, a composite cable for offshore engineering, for the first time in Korea. The umbilical cable will be used for power supply and signal transmission/reception for controlling ROVs (remotely operated vehicle) which are used [...]
