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- Heerema Group Acquires Big Inch Marine Systems Maritime Reporter, Mar 1983 #28
The Heerema Group, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, which is involved worldwide in the design, fabrication, and installation of offshore structures and pipeline systems, recently announced the acquisition of Big Inch Marine Systems Inc. of Houston, Texas.
Big Inch Marine Systems provides manufacturing and service in subsea pipeline repairs and new construction. Its metal-to-metal products and services include the coldforging process flexiforge, the boltless flange, misalignment ball joint, locking slip joint, ball flange and load limiting connectors.
The acquisition of Big Inch broadens Heerema's diversification into sophisticated underwater equipment and services. With Heerema's support and facilities, Big Inch will increase its worldwide activities with immediate emphasis on the North Sea operating areas.
Big Inch will remain headquartered in Houston and relocate its European office to Heerema Engineering Service (UK)'s new facilities in London.
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43technology. ship capacity substantially. ogy Platform, which provides policy “One response might be to build more Technology as Tool guidance to the European Commission ships, but even a shameless opportunist on maritime R&D. With industry in- “Technology should be helping to would acknowledge that this
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 23to Visit us at OTC 2024 further demonstrations … let’s build it. But let’s not try and Booth # 1338 3030 E. Pershing St. do everything at once. The European model was more of a staged process in making things happen, and I think the U.S. Appleton, WI 54911 USA can learn a fair bit from the European model
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20the U.S. offshore wind industry endures a predictable number of stops and starts during its adolescence, common mantras are ‘learn from the established European model’ and ‘embrace technology transfer from the offshore oil and gas sector.’ In Robert Langford, the American Bureau of Shipping has all of that
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 18the million (2021) to €66 million (2024). In the same period, a North and Mid-Atlantic, to the Paci? c Coast and the Gulf Chinese built CSOV for the European market would attract of Mexico, effectively creating three-four sub segments for a yard price of €44 million (2021) and €61 million (2024). SOV/CSOV
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 17that one can make is that more turbines will drive the demand for more Tier 1 SOVs and CSOVs. Until now demand Tier 1 vessels in the maturing European offshore wind segment has been driven by scale, more wind turbines, wind farms being built further offshore, clustering of developer projects
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 41Vessels Gripper ing European CTV operator Northern Offshore Services (N-O-S) and U.S.-based investment ? rm OIC. The vessel, based on N-O-S’ 30-meter G-class design, fea- tures Volvo Penta’s IPS propulsion system and is said to be “hybrid-ready”, meaning it was built with space reserved for all the
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 26, you can’t carry the brigade. ing primarily into three key Northern year around 55% of ARC’s revenue It also helps us to carry certain project European ports (Antwerp, Southampton was from ocean cargo carried for government and commercial cargoes and Bremerhaven). ARC has operated the U.S. government
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 26should be considered equiva- Regarding ? re safety, Interferry has worked closely with lent or lower than that of internal combustion engine ve- the European LASH Fire project which got underway in hicles (ICEV), providing the drencher system is correctly 2019 and wrapped up its work at the end of August
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 12The aircraft has conducted aerial inspections of merchant ships expanded in the future--objects can be detected and identi? ed for emissions for the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). with the Sea Falcon far beyond the on-board sensor system.” “We provided a VTUAV that could land and take off from
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 12used by malicious actors to inject cy- advanced computer worm. Malware targeting an ber payloads into broader operational networks. Moreover, as Eastern European economy spreads throughout the operational technology (OT), these platforms themselves are A world causing collateral damage. A major Middle vulnerable
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 50HATTERAS & CAPE CANAVERAL Damen’s Multi Cat multipurpose workboat design, well of deck space for the works on deck, and also enhance the proven in European markets, has made its entry into the stability that these vessels need for their lifting capabilities, U.S. Jones Act market with the construction
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 61route to market for developers. Looking to Other Markets for Guidance Our 87 GW project pipeline, shown in the chart, covers 73 The mature and large European offshore wind market can wind farms located in federal and state waters off the Atlan- be used as a guideline to developments in the CTV and SOV
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 60years. U.S. are reported to cost between $97 and 162 million each. However, the fundamental drivers for offshore wind remain SOVs contracted for the European market at a similar time to sound. At the federal level, the current administration is focus- 60 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • November
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 36at it from that “There were a few things that attracted me to shift my ca- perspective, she questioned the complexity and amount of in- reer from huge European companies to a U.S. medium sized vestment. company in a completely different industry,” said Graziuso. But it didn’t take her long to realize that
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 65FLIP – The Standard ‘Cool Tech’ Bearer for 60 years – RETIRED A dynamic era in naval oceanography recently ended Fifty-five feet remain as the iconic Floating Instrument Platform — popularly visible after the crew of known as FLIP — was of? cially retired from service. Built the Floating Instrument
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 49companies such as Petrobras, Repsol Sinopec structural integrity monitoring, inspection and mainte- Brasil and Shell, Technip, in Brazil, and to the European nance surveys, giving developers and contractors access electrical distribution company Elia Group, in Belgium. to the data they need to plan,
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 15, with more than 44,000 workers employed Jones Act vessel operators with foreign experience from in offshore wind by 2030 and nearly 33,000 additional European offshore wind markets. jobs in communities supported by offshore wind activ- However, two-and-a-half years later, there are signs that © nblxer /
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September 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 51. The Subsea transmission systems have been the focus of think federal government has identi? ed the oil and gas sector as a tank work. The Center for European Policy Analysis, in a Jan. target of malicious state actors.” 23, 2023, article by Lukas Trakimavicius, warned that, “En- The same report highlighted
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June 2023 - Marine News page: 9Price comparison of SOVs being built for the European and U.S. offshore wind industries. ing approaches analyzed in our reports, operator demand for SOVs is forecast to grow to signi? cantly more than 20 units by 2035, with turbine manufacturers also chartering several SOVs.” While the U.S. federal
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June 2023 - Marine News page: 8wind PEX of around $4,500 to $5,500 per kilowatt (kW), some turbine installation vessels (WTIV), subsea rock installa- 30% to 50% higher than those of European projects,” In- tion vessels, service operation vessels (SOV), crew transfer telatus said. vessels (CTV) and tug and barge spreads, among others.