Mitcham Acquires L-3’s Klein Associates
Geophysical equipment supplier Mitcham Industries, Inc. has acquired L-3 Communications Klein Associates, Inc., a designer, manufacturer and worldwide distributor of sonar and waterside security systems to military and commercial customers, effective January 1, 2016. Klein, now renamed Klein Marine Systems, Inc., was a wholly-owned subsidiary of L-3 Communications Corporation, a provider of a broad range of communication and electronic systems and products used on military and commercial platforms…
Offshore Mooring Replacement Completed
InterMoor Inc., an Acteon company and part of its foundations and moorings business, finished replacing critical components in an FPU mooring system offshore Equatorial Guinea on schedule, enabling the prime contractor, Boskalis, to expand the InterMoor work scope. The original contract covered replacing old mooring chains and wire ropes for eight of the 12 mooring lines along with two drag anchors on Mobil Equatorial Guinea Inc.’s (MEGI’s) Zafiro Producer floating production unit.
Grid Support Power Plant Now Operational
In Czech Republic a combined heat and power (CHP) plant designed to provide grid support officially went into operation at the beginning of January. Based on four 20-cylinder Rolls-Royce engines, the CHP plant generates a total of 37 MW of heat and power for the town of Tabor/Sezimovo Ústí roughly 100 kilometers southeast of the capital Prague. The medium-speed Type B35:40 gas engines were supplied by Bergen Engines which is part of Rolls-Royce Power Systems within the Land & Sea division of Rolls-Royce.
McDermott Completes Pemex Compression Module
McDermott International, Inc. announced today that one of its joint venture companies, Qingdao McDermott Wuchuan Offshore Engineering Co. Ltd. (“QMW”), recently completed a fast-track compression process module fabrication subcontract for Jord Oil & Gas Systems B.V. (“JOGS”). JOGS is the prime contractor for the process modules for the jack-up compression platform which will connect to the PEMEX Akal G-1 platform offshore Mexico.
