Overseas Contractors News

Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd., an Acteon company, is stepping with a fully-integrated training program for all offshore staff. The improved program coincides with an intensive drive to build more strategic kit during 2013 in response to customer demand and to meet the company’s ambitious targets for growth over the next three years. Aquatic’s revitalized training program, which is based at its newly expanded Peterhead, U.K. facility, offers four different types of equipment that can simulate discrete offshore operations.

As the largest Ship Repair facility in the Middle East, Dubai Drydocks, which made its home in the late 1970's, was built on the foundations of capitalizing on its geographical proximity to the major oil terminals in the Arabian Gulf. Designed to accommodate oil tankers with a capacity of up to one million tons dwt, the year 2003 marks the 20th anniversary of operations at Dubai Drydocks. The Yard's core business of ship repair is backed-up by conversions and newbuildings. Experience in the field of conversions has developed progressively over several years and an important milestone has just been passed with the successful completion of the conversion of the VLCC Mosocean into a Floating Production Storage and Offloading unit (FPSO), named the Xikomba.