Innovation Starts @ Marine Hub Cornwall
marine scene here primarily around commercial shipping and bunkering, ship repair, fishing, marine leisure, and the port infrastructure around that. It was traditional, but even back then there were some interesting Cornish companies who were innovators for the time.Before they were bought out by Fugro, Seacore was a Cornish company globally renowned as drillers who got the job done. Seacore worked mostly in marine civil engineering and oil and gas and were based in Gweek at the time which is a tiny little village that no one would have heard of normally. When I was at sea working for an offshore
Stevens Named Managing Director of Fugro Geoservices
Ross Stevens has been appointed MD of Fugro GeoServices Ltd, the UK based site characterization specialist. Stevens is a chartered civil engineer who joined Fugro Seacore in 2007 after a decade in project management and civils contracting. In 2012, he was appointed deputy MD of Fugro Engineers BV based in the Netherlands. He returned to Fugro Seacore as a director in 2015, ahead of its integration in October 2015 as part of Fugro GeoServices Ltd. During his time at Fugro, Stevens has developed extensive experience in managing global marine site investigations in oil and gas
Fugro Integrates its UK Geotechnical Firms
U.K. geotech companies restructured as Fugro GeoServices Ltd. The renaming completes the integration of specialists Fugro Seacore, Fugro Engineering Services, EM Drilling, Fugro Loadtest, Fugro Instrumentation & Monitoring and Fugro Aperio. The renamed Fugro GeoServices Ltd employs close to 600 staff and undertakes seven key activities: nearshore geotechnical, offshore geotechnical, marine installation, onshore ground investigation, cone penetration testing, geophysics and instrumentation and monitoring. The company also has geotechnical laboratories and carries out a range of built environment
Fugro’s Offshore Wind Farm Drill Ready
Fugro Seacore is building a pile top drill, the T120, for the offshore wind farm market to assist with monopole installations of up to eight meters diameter. The development represents a significant step forward in capacity, as Its current big drill has 90 metric tons of rotational torque; the new one will have 120 metric tons. This new addition to the fleet means they will have two drills capable of relief drilling piles of larger than six-meter diameter simultaneously, for instances where larger monopiles are the chosen foundation for the wind farm sites of round three in U.K. waters and elsewhere
Furgo’s New Offshore Wind Farm Drill Readies for Action
Specialist overwater drilling and marine construction contractor Fugro Seacore is building a pile top drill, the T120, for the offshore wind farm market to assist with monopole installations of up to eight meters diameter. Their current big drill has 90 metric tons of rotational torque; the new one will have 120 metric tons. This new addition to the fleet means they will have two drills capable of relief drilling piles of larger than six-meter diameter simultaneously, for instances where larger monopiles are the chosen foundation for the wind farm sites of Round three in U.K. waters and elsewhere in
February 2025
