Offshore cable solutions provider Oceanteam has completed the demobilization of the 4,000-ton carousel from onboard the 128-meter long cable-laying vessel (CLV) Normand Clipper. According to the company, the operation was completed in less than a half-day and with the assistance of Bonn & Mees Drijv
The 87-meter long TEK Ocean Spirit has commenced what is described as the largest subsea engineering survey at the site of the Marinus Link interconnector in Australia. The 32 expert crew aboard the survey vessel left from the Port of Burnie on 11 February and will take four to six weeks to survey t
Norwegian vessel owner Solstad Offshore has secured contracts within the renewable energy sector for three of its subsea construction support vessels (CSVs). Normand Cutter is in charge of carrying out a 110-day firm contract for a cable project in Northern Europe. Work is set to commence this month
Sumitomo Electric Industries has received a limited notice to proceed (LNTP) from Samsung C&T Corporation to deliver a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable for what will be the first of its kind submarine HVDC network in the Middle East. Under the $200 million deal, Sumitomo will deliver its 400
Louis Dreyfus TravOcean (LDTVO) plans to start the second inter-array cable installation campaign at the Saint-Nazaire wind farm offshore France in mid-March. Back in September 2018, a consortium of LDTVO and Prysmian officially secured a contract for the supply and installation of inter-array cable
Nexans High Voltage laboratory has carried out a 420 kV HVAC electrical type test with the use of g3 inside the termination, a gas said to have significantly reduced impact on the environment compared to the most commonly used SF6. According to Nexans, sulphur hexafluoride gas (SF6) has been extensi
SSE Renewables has issued contract notices seeking Tier 1 contractors for the Arklow Bank Phase 2 wind farm project offshore Ireland. Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 is located approximately 6 to 15 kilometres off the coast of Arklow, Co. Wicklow and covers an area approximately 27 kilometres long and
Italian cabling giant Prysmian Group has secured €135 million financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to boost its research and development (R&D) activities.
The EPCI cable package management contract for inter-array and export cables at Taipower Offshore Wind Project Phase II (TPC Changhua Phase II) has been awarded to the Netherlands-based CrocWorks.
Northern Ireland-headquartered pipeline decommissioning specialist Decom Engineering has opened a new facility near Aberdeen as it wants to target new North Sea oil and gas clients. The investment valued at more than £250,000 is expected to allow faster deployment of Decom’s assets to clients workin
CRP Subsea has delivered more than 500 innovative buckle mitigation rotating buoyancy modules (RBMs) to protect Gulf of Mexico flowlines. The RBMs, produced at CRP Subsea’s manufacturing facility in Skelmersdale, England, will protect the pipeline by allowing it to roll on the seabed reducing latera
The UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has awarded £31.6 million (approximately €37.7 million) in grant funding to eleven projects through the Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) Demonstration Programme. With an aim of reducing costs as well as increasing the rate of deployme
Brazil’s Petrobras has awarded TechnipFMC with a subsea engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for its Búzios 6 field (module 7) greenfield development in the Santos Basin pre-salt area. The scope of the contract includes flexible and rigid pipe, umbilicals, pipeline
Fugro has partnered up with the University of Houston (UH) and its four partnering universities on a collaborative project to advance geo-data science skills in the energy sector. The Data Science for the Energy Transition project, funded through a three-year grant with the National Science Foundati
