Deepwater Installation

Strohm receives its ‘largest order to date’ from ExxonMobil
Dutch Strohm has secured a second contract with U.S. oil and gas giant ExxonMobil for the delivery of thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) jumpers for a field development located offshore Guyana. The award, said to mark Strohm’s largest order so far, will see the delivery of more than 24 of the compan

TechnipFMC scores more work with Wintershall Dea off Norway
TechnipFMC has secured an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract with oil and gas company Wintershall Dea Norge for a gas field located offshore Norway. The contract covers the design, engineering, manufacture, and installation of pipe for the Dvalin North field, wh

Asso.subsea to install export cable for Ostwind 3
Hellenic Cables has signed a contract with Asso.subsea for the transportation, installation, and protection of the 220 kV submarine export cable that will connect 50Hertz’s own transformer platform at the Windanker wind farm in the Baltic Sea to the national grid as part of the Ostwind 3 grid connec

Readers’ picks: Most attractive subsea topics in 2022
Looking back, 2022 was a pretty active year in the (offshore) energy sector. A good deal of this might be because COVID-19 has stopped being an obstacle to everyday life, but what seems to be for sure is that energy security and energy crisis-related topics stole most of our attention. Below we brin

James Fisher selling 2007-built dive support vessel
UK-headquartered provider of marine engineering services James Fisher and Sons is selling the Subtech Swordfish dive support vessel (DSV) for a cash consideration of $24 million. The company has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MoU) for the sale of the 2007-built vessel to Seamec Limited, a c

Aker Solutions wins ‘sizeable’ contract with Wintershall Dea
Aker Solutions has won a contract from Wintershall Dea to provide the subsea production system for the Dvalin North development offshore Norway, shortly after the plan for the development and operation (PDO) of the gas field was submitted. The Dvalin North gas field is located around 200 kilometers

Aker Solutions breaks order intake record with new Aker BP contracts
Norwegian oilfield services provider Aker Solutions has secured multiple contracts with compatriot oil and gas company Aker BP, which combined represent the largest value of contract awards in a single quarter in its history. Following Aker BP’s submission of plans for development and operation (PDO

Ofgem withdraws cap and floor regime for 1.4 GW interconnector
UK energy market regulator Ofgem has withdrawn the cap and floor regime awarded in principle for a 1.4 GW interconnector due to the project having encountered “significant delays”.

Offshore drilling contractor taps Scana company for deep-water riser system
Scana-owned PSW Technology has signed an agreement with offshore drilling contractor Northern Ocean Operations for the sale of a complete marine riser system for ultra-deep-water operations. The contract includes project management, inspection, repair and logistics of the marine riser system. Work s

Subsea 7 scores trifecta with Aker BP
Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP has awarded Subsea 7 with three contracts for the delivery of equipment and installation services for projects located offshore Norway. Subsea 7 confirmed the award of a “major” contract for the Yggdrasil field development project, formerly NOAKA, a “large” cont

Nordic gas TSOs, offshore wind developers plan giant green hydrogen infrastructure project in Baltic Sea
The Finnish and Swedish gas transmission system operators (TSOs) Gasgrid Finland and Nordion Energi, and offshore wind developers OX2 and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have entered into an agreement to investigate the development of large-scale offshore hydrogen pipeline infrastructure co

The Netherlands eyes offshore energy hubs, more floating solar, reuse of gas pipelines for offshore-produced hydrogen by 2050
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (EZK) is now actively looking into the build-out of offshore wind beyond 2030, as well as into offshore energy hubs, offshore hydrogen production and reuse of gas pipelines for hydrogen transport. The EZK is currently working on a comprehensi

Equinor unveils plan to invest over $1.4 bln in deepwater gas development
Equinor has submitted a plan for development and operation (PDO) of a deepwater gas discovery project in the Norwegian Sea.

Subsea 7 put in charge of BP’s LNG tie-back project off Trinidad and Tobago
Subsea Integration Alliance, the partnership between Subsea 7 and OneSubsea, has won a contract to support the development of BP’s Cypre gas development project located offshore Trinidad and Tobago. Subsea 7 is in charge of delivering the concept and design, engineering, procurement, construction an