Salamander Energy received the first oil in the tanks of the Suksan Salamander floating storage and offtake vessel (FSO) at the Bualuang field in the Gulf of Thailand. Greater Bualuang work. Image: Salamander鈥
Ceona awarded NCS Survey Ltd. a five-year contract for positioning services, in which mobilization has been successfully completed on the first vessel, Ceona鈥檚 DP3 multi-purpose vessel, the Normand Pacific. Following initial work in the Gulf of Mexico鈥
Loading rock on to the Flintstone at Shenzhen, mainland China. Photo from Tideway. Fast local sourcing and past experience helped Tideway turnaround a Chinese rock placement project in quick time鈥
GustoMSC鈥檚 sixth-generation Magellan-class drillship.Images from GustoMSC Ferdinand Magellan became the first to circumnavigate the globe with a brutal three-year journey beginning in 1519鈥
The HelWin Beta platform, on its way out to sea. Photos from HFG. The North Sea is set to continue to provide work for fabricators for 10-20 more years, says Heerema Fabrication Group鈥檚 CEO鈥
The Pieter Schelte at Marine Engineering鈥檚 Korean yard. Photo from Allseas. Work is lining up for Allseas鈥 mega-vessel the Pieter Schelte, which finally starts sea trials offshore Korea this summer鈥
The Dutch have long dominated the heavy lifting market, especially offshore, and the country鈥檚 domination looks set to continue. Earlier this year, Allseas announced plans to build a new vessel that will top by 50% the capacity of its already enormous Pieter Schelte鈥
China鈥檚 BGP Pioneer completed Perenco Oil & Gas Gabon 3D seismic acquisition project of approximately 1500sq km offshore Gabon. The project included undershoot operations between platforms and was to be run in water depth varying between depth between 15 to 55m鈥
The J-Lay test rig applies a 20 te vertical load via the rollers whilst pulling the product through. Image from Trelleborg 云顶赌场老虎机. Specifying the right vortex induced vibration鈥
Using the tensioner test rig simulator can show how to improve tensioner pad design, says MacKinnon Marine鈥檚 Alex MacKinnon. The technical demands on pipeline installers continue to grow, due to the need to service the deeper field depths being exploited鈥
Huisman鈥檚 900-tonne RL-KBC with long outreach. Photos from Huisman. Subsea 7鈥檚 Seven Arctic is due for delivery in 2016. Its 900-tonne capacity crane was developed in close cooperation with Huisman鈥
The Rambiz 3000 carrying Wintershall鈥檚 L6-B mono-tower platform. Image from Scaldis. Belgian and Dutch contractors have taken minimal facilities to the next level by installing a mono-tower platform and its foundations together鈥
Frank Verhoeven Boskalis is eyeing an increasing role in offshore oil and gas and renewables projects鈥攊ncluding the potential to dry dock floating production vessels at sea. Elaine Maslin found out more鈥
In advance of OE鈥檚 2014 Deepwater Intervention Forum held in Galveston, Texas, Managing Editor Audrey Leon spoke with representatives of Helix Energy Solutions, FMC Technologies, and consultant Robert Keith of R.J. Keith & Associates, to discuss topics affecting the intervention sector鈥
TrustLube installed an automatic greasing system on EMAS鈥 newbuild ice-classed ultra-deepwater pipelaying and construction vessel Lewek Constellation in June. The newbuild is shown here in July sailing along the Queensland鈥
