Deepwater Installation

Scana company gets riser joint order from mystery client
Scana-owned Subseatec has secured a contract with an “international energy company” for the delivery of riser joints for an offshore field development. Under the “sizeable” contract, Subseatec will deliver ready-to-use riser joints in low alloyed steel, as well as provide engineering, manufacturing,

Date set for Baltic Pipe opening ceremony
Polish gas transmission system operator GAZ-SYSTEM will hold the opening ceremony for the Baltic Pipe project on 27 September. The announcement comes as the technical commissioning of all three gas compressor stations that will distribute gas imported from the Norwegian Shelf in Poland has been comp

Marlinks to monitor cables at Baltic Sea offshore wind farm
Marlinks has won a contract to provide cable health monitoring services for the Arcadis Ost 1 wind farm located offshore Germany in the Baltic Sea. According to Marlinks, Arcadis Ost 1 is situated in an area of the Baltic Sea where challenging seabed conditions are present and a swampy topsoil layer

Saipem to install offshore gas pipeline under €300 million contract
Saipem has secured an E&C contract with EniMed, a subsidiary of Eni, for the transportation and installation of an offshore gas pipeline connecting the four wells of Argo and Cassiopea Fields to the Sicilian coast. Pipelay vessels Castorone and Castoro 10 will install the 60-kilometer-long 14” gas p

ABB’s subsea technology wins accolade for saving power and cutting emissions
ABB has received a best practices award from consulting firm Frost & Sullivan that recognizes its subsea technology for saving power and cutting emissions for energy industries. ABB won Frost & Sullivan’s 2022 Best Practices Award for Global Oil and Gas Automation Technology Innovation Leadership fo

Aquaterra gets subsea riser order from Azerbaijan
Aquaterra Energy has won a high-pressure high temperature (HPHT) subsea riser contract with oil and gas operator Umid Babek Operating Company (UBOC) for the exploration of its HP well on the Babek project in Azerbaijan. Aquaterra Energy will deliver its 15,000 psi subsea riser system, using the AQC-

Subsea 7 and Van Oord join Guyana’s gas-to-energy project
A consortium of Subsea 7 and Van Oord has won a contract by ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) related to the pipeline for the gas-to-energy project offshore Guyana. The scope under the “substantial” contract, as the companies define it, covers the project ma

French firm delivers flowlines and risers for King’s Quay FPS
France-headquartered Vallourec has delivered flowlines and steel catenary risers (SCRs) for the King’s Quay floating production unit (FPU) in the Gulf of Mexico, as part of an agreement with Subsea 7. Vallourec’s scope included the delivery of 60 kilometers of 6” and 16” flowlines and SCRs for the t

Subsea Integration Alliance to deliver boosting system for Gulf of Mexico field
Subsea Integration Alliance partners OneSubsea and Subsea 7 have secured an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract with Kosmos Energy to deliver an integrated subsea boosting system for the Odd Job field in the Gulf of Mexico. OneSubsea, Schlumberger’s subsea technol

50Hertz connects Arcadis Ost offshore substation to German grid
Transmission system operator 50Hertz has announced that the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore substation has been connected to the German extra-high voltage grid after the 220 kV submarine cable required for this was pulled into place on the platform over the past few days. Final assembly and commissioning wor

Prysmian to deliver two subsea power interconnections in Spain
Prysmian has won two contracts worth approximately €250 million from Spanish transmission system operator (TSO) Red Eléctrica for the development of two submarine power interconnections in Spain. Prysmian is in charge of the design, supply, installation and commissioning of the subsea power cable fo

Centurion combines businesses to create subsea services provider
Centurion Group has combined its Aberdeen-based businesses Aleron and Seanic UK to form Centurion Subsea Services (CSS). Centurion Subsea Services is said to provide specialist subsea equipment and engineering services to the energy, renewables, decommissioning and subsea construction industries. T

Normand Pacific stays with Prysmian
Solstad Offshore has signed another contract extension with Prysmian Powerlink for the construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Pacific. The new one-year deal will see the vessel fixed with the Italian company until 31 December 2023. Prysmian has the option to extend the contract for a further one

TechnipFMC to work for Equinor in Brazil
TechnipFMC has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Equinor for an integrated Front End Engineering and Design (iFEED) study on the BM-C-33 project offshore Brazil. The study will finalize the technical solution for the proposed gas and condensate greenfield development in the pre-salt Campos Basin