Miko to Supply Hull Closure for Equinor FPSO Raia
Offshore Frontier Solutions Pte. Ltd., a MODEC Group company has placed a new contract with Miko Marine AS, of Norway, for the supply of sea inlet covers to be carried aboard its new floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO).The FPSO, named Raia, is being built for Equinor for operating in Brazil’s Campos Basin. It is being supplied with one sea chest cover and one set of pipe covers with delivery in Q2 of 2024.The covers use powerful magnets to hold them in place over sea chests and pipe outlets. Internal repair and maintenance work can then be conducted safely with a reliable
Miko Marine Delivers Magnetic Blanking Set for Bacalhau FPSO
Norwegian company Miko Marine has shipped out the first magnetic blanking set destined for the Brazilian offshore sector from its fabrication plant in Haugesund, Norway. However, the set is not going to Brazil, but to the DSIC yard in Dalian, China, where it will then be installed aboard a new Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel being completed by Japanese FPSO specialist MODEC. Upon the completion of the construction, the new FPSO will be transferred to Equinor's recently sanctioned Bacalhau development offshore Brazil.According to Miko Marine, the new blanking set
Oil Removed from Decades-old Swedish Shipwreck
Thetis went down into 30 meters of water close to Smøgen on the west coast of Sweden in 1985, it took a substantial quantity of fuel oil down with it. Quantities of the oil later escaped from the wreck and appeared periodically among the skerries on that part of the coast.Norwegian specialist Miko Marine said it had been asked by the Swedish Sea and Water Authority if its Moskito hull penetration tool could be used to remove any oil remaining in the wreck, but the Oslo-based company was too involved with other projects to bid for the work at that time.Instead, Swedish dive company Marine Works
Oil Recovered from Sunken Ship Thorco Cloud
Jaya Salvage Indonesia early last year. Bumi Subsea provided remotely operated vehicles (ROV) and the dynamically positioned Surf Allamanda, owned by Bourbon Offshore. This served as the work platform during the salvage of the trapped fuel by using the Moskito hot tap tool developed in Norway by Miko Marine. Thousands of sunken ships along the coast of Norway represent pollution dangers from the fuel trapped inside their hulls. This prompted the Norwegian Coastal Administration to invite Miko Marine to devise a method for removing it. The result was a unique tapping machine, known as the Moskito
Magnetic Sledge Aids Underwater Object Retrieval
A new magnetic sledge introduced by Oslo-based Miko Marine is capable of retrieving ferrous objects as small as a fingernail from underwater. Measuring two meters by one meter, the sledge is made from aluminum and equipped with 10 permanent magnets. When towed over the seabed, the sledge can pick up objects that may be covered by sand or silt and achieve results that would be difficult or impossible for divers to equal, said Miko Marine, a salvage technology company that has particular expertise in the use of magnets. Each magnet is suspended independently beneath the sledge from a
Odfjell Drilling Boosts Safety with Miko Patches
A policy of safety enhancement has resulted in Odfjell Drilling recruiting the expertise of Miko Marine to design and manufacture a complete package of sea chest covers and cofferdams that use magnetic holding technology for increased efficiency. The new closures have been designed specifically for use during work on the semi-submersible drilling rig Deepsea Stavanger. Miko already had a detailed understanding of the practicalities of sea chest closure and was able to apply its experience to the challenge. Achieving the necessary level of safety assurance required all components to be manufactu
New Switchable Magnet Launched as Tool for ROVs
Norway’s Miko Marine AS has developed a powerful magnet to be used as a practical and versatile tool for ROV operators. Incorporating patented technology that increases its performance, the magnet has been designed so that it can be switched-on and off by an ROV manipulator and used for a wide range of applications underwater. The new magnet can be applied instantly to any steel structure where it is capable of holding weights up to 750 kg and it can significantly reduce the amount of time required for an ROV to undertake a task. The Miko ROV Magnet functions completely mechanically without the
New Switchable Magnet Launched as Tool for ROVs
Norway’s Miko Marine AS has developed a powerful magnet to be used as a practical and versatile tool for ROV operators. Incorporating patented technology that increases its performance, the magnet has been designed so that it can be switched-on and off by an ROV manipulator and used for a wide range of applications underwater. The new magnet can be applied instantly to any steel structure where it is capable of holding weights up to 750 kg and it can significantly reduce the amount of time required for an ROV to undertake a task. Typical uses could be to quickly provide a stable anchor
New Tool Recovers Oil from Sunken Wrecks
A tool for removing oil trapped in submerged vessels was developed in Norway by Miko Marine. Moskito is designed to address the pollution threat that exists with the large numbers of sunken ships around the world that still contain significant quantities of oil in their tanks as cargo or bunker fuel. Many of the thousands of ships sunk during WWII now have seventy years of corrosion eating at their plates and the days are drawing closer when the pollutants could escape. Options include sealing the wreck or recovering the pollutant in a controlled manner, which Moskito seeks to do. How it
August 2025
