In November Singapore’s ASL Shipyard completed work on the 90m diving support vessel Mermaid Asiana. Destined for service in Mermaid’s extensive Thai fleet, the DP2 classed vessel has redundancies well beyond the basics. With three Kawasaki bow thrusters the vessel could maintain DP2 status even if one thruster was down. This is but one example [...]
A Singaporean diver’s body has been found floating near an oil rig, which he was working on, at the Jurong West Anchorage in Tuas, Singapore. Gerald Chia’s body was found by the Maritime & Port of Authority of Singapore and the Police Coast Guard on Sunday evening, 54 hours after he went missing, reported local [...]
SINGAPORE — Hallin Marine has signed a US$6.5 million contract for the Hallin-operated subsea operations vessel Sanko Angel with a major oil and gas operator. The contract commences immediately and is scheduled to run well into the fourth quarter of 2009. Under the terms of the contract, the vessel will be providing offshore construction support [...]
UK listed subsea services player Hallin Marine has been awarded a $5 million dollar contract extension with Singapore-based Swiber offshoot Kreuz. The extension has been gained by Hallin’s Singapore-based manufacturing division, Hallin Manufacturing Services, and is for additional saturation diving equipment taken up by the offshore support company based in Singapore as options under [...]
SINGAPORE — T&T Bisso Response Network has opened its new office in Singapore. Construction of the office began in January. T&T Bisso Salvage Asia Pte. Ltd. is located at 12A Jalan Samulun in Jurong, an industrial area of Singapore on the western edge of the island. Headed by General Manager Richard van der Werf [...]
Aberdeen — A UK-based diving support business with a turnover of more than £100 million is forecasting “significant” growth in south-east Asia after acquiring an Australian business and opening an office in Singapore. Integrated Subsea Services (ISS), which employs about 650 people worldwide, said it had taken over the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) operations [...]
Swiber offshoot Kreuz Subsea is now a certified member of the International Marine Contractors Association – the international trade association representing offshore, marine and subsea engineering companies. The IMCA granted Kreuz Subsea contractor membership for diving, allowing the Singaporean outfit to boost its subsea business and use its in-house diving support for its offshore [...]
By Nathan J, cDiver.net It has recently been announced that IMCA Trainee courses for Air Diving Supervisor, Trainee Bell Diving Supervisor, and IMCA Assistant Life Support Technician, will take place in the United States out of Louisiana.
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