The Elizabeth River is tidal estuary, forming an arm of Hampton Roads harbor in southeast VA. The river is also a gateway to the south for the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway – a sheltered waterway to ...

Pipelaying contractors must choose between crawler dozer bodies with sidebooms or excavator-style pipelayers, where the excavator arm is essentially replaced with a boom and the upper structure can ...

The Volvo PL4809D Rotating Pipelayer has a lifting capacity of 90 tons and a 360 swing capability. Unlike side-boom pipelayers, the PL4809D can lay large pipes anywhere around the machine. The ...

The PL61 Pipelayer has a 40,00- lb lift-capacity and is intended for pipelaying applications where precision control and careful maneuvering is required. The 18-ft boom is hook-and-cable controlled ...

The 1050K pipelayer-ready crawler tractor is available in two maximum-lift-capacity configurations: the 170,000-pound-capacity PL170 and the PL220 rated at 220,000 pounds. The 350-horsepower 1050K, ...

Zhenhua Heavy Industry has delivered the first pipelayer designed and built in China to China Offshore Oil Engineering Corporation (COOEC). The newbuild Hai Yang Shi ...

The Dressta SB-30M pipelayer delivers nearly 73,000 lb. of lifting capacity. The 60,800-lb. tractor is powered by a 188-hp Cummins QSB6.7 engine that meets EU Stage IIIA and EPA Tier 3 emissions ...

An ailing crewmember was medevaced from a U.K.-registered pipe laying vessel 167 miles offshore Marsh Island, La., in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. Coast Guard said its Sector New Orleans ...

JSD 6000 unit, in which ZMPC has a 90% stake and Petrofac holds 10%, will be delivered in the first half of next year Chinese heavylift specialist Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) is scheduled ...