Damen has introduced the Responder 5413 – a new First Line Assistance Vessel. The company has pioneered this versatile, 54-metre vessel partly in response to the increasing number of extreme weather events across the globe, believing it can play a vital role as a first response vessel, capable of assisting a relief or emergency operation in a number of ways.

Low-motion technology transforms economics of ultra-deepwater fields

A state of the art dive-support vessel is a marvel of modern technology and design. Seldom has this been more evident than in the Oceanicasub V delivered in February 2017 to her Brazilian owner Oceânica.

Sparrows Group has secured a five-year contract to deliver hydraulic, lifting and rigging services for Maersk Oil’s UK floating assets.

Two massive cryogenic storage tanks were delivered and are being installed by Eagle LNG Partners for Crowley Maritime Corp. at a new shore-side liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering facility being constructed at the Port of Jacksonville’s Talleyrand Marine Terminal (JAXPORT).

Global Maritime, a provider of marine warranty, dynamic positioning and engineering services to the offshore sector, is celebrating ten years of providing marine warranty survey (MWS) services to the West Delta Deep Marine Concession (WDDM), offshore Egypt. Burullus Gas Company, a joint operating company of Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), Shell and PICL (Egypt), operates the concession.

Reflecting its commitment to focus on competitiveness and strict operational and financial costs management, CGG is pleased to announce that it has agreed in principle with its longstanding partner Eidesvik and its Nordic lenders to establish a new ownership set-up for its operated fleet.

The U.S. Coast Guard awarded five firm fixed-price contracts for heavy polar icebreaker design studies and analysis Wednesday.

Trelleborg’s engineered products operation recently completed a milestone project for BW Offshore for the complete in-house design and fabrication of floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) elastomeric bearing structures. Supplied to Premier Oil's Catcher FPSO in 2016, this marks the first time the company’s Singapore facility has not only provided elastomeric bearings, but designed and manufactured the entire steel fabricated elastomer bearing system.

Houlder, Wärtsilä and Trelleborg to introduce new small to mid-scale LNG distribution infrastructure at Gastech 2017.

Ashtead Technology has expanded its equipment rental pool following a significant investment in the latest Pulsed Eddy Current (PEC) technology to deliver faster, more accurate asset integrity inspections.

McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE:MDR) announces it has acquired the newly built pipelay and construction vessel Amazon to better position the Company for ultra deepwater and SURF projects.

With climate change affecting the polar zones, the interest in ice class vessels continues to show growth and innovation. A noteworthy example of this was recently launched at Russia’s Nevsky Shipyard. Designated a Multipurpose, Shallow=draft, tug-salvage vessel, with Arc 5 ice class, (MPSV12) the new vessel will fitted out to provide a broad range of support roles.

Damen Shiprepair & Conversion (DSC) has recently completed works in Vlissingen and Brest on two major vessels in the fleet of dredging and marine construction specialist Jan de Nul Group. One of these is the Vole au vent, a 140-metre jack-up vessel built specifically for the installation of the latest generation of offshore wind turbines.

Damen Shipyards Group’s range of Liquefied Gas Carriers is a response to the changes seen in the maritime LNG market in recent years. The Dutch company’s designs meet a variety of capacity requirements, from 500m³ to 7,500m³.

Ulstein and SeaOwls have launched a pioneering heavy-lift jack-up vessel design. The cruciform structural lay-out makes the solution more than 10% lighter than conventional designs. The concept aims to install the next generation 10-12 MW wind turbines in the same time frame as used today for installing 6-8 MW units.