Deepwater Installation
Motive Offshore hails renewables boost
Subsea equipment specialist Motive Offshore has reported a successful first half of the year, despite the effects of the global pandemic. In addition to completion of pre-COVID project awards, the company has won a number of contracts during the past five months. These awards should set to see the B
C-Innovation wraps up Mad Dog Spar work
C-Innovation has installed several stem clamps for BP beneath the Mad Dog Spar in the Gulf of Mexico. For the purpose of the project, C-I used its subsea inspection, maintenance and repair and ROV vessel, MV Dove. Throughout the planning process, the ROV went through some modification to mitigate th
Subsea 7 wins pipelay trio extension with Petrobras
Subsea 7 has secured a one-year extension with Petrobras for the current long-term day-rate contracts for three pipelay support vessels (PLSVs) operating offshore Brazil. Specifically, the extensions have a combined value of approximately $155 million, net of agreed reductions to the current day-rat
OceanTools gets fibre-optic termination housings order
OceanTools has secured a contract for the design and manufacture of a 7500-metre depth rated fibre optic termination housing, by a subsea telecommunications cable manufacturer based in the Asia Pacific. The OceanTools subsea design team collaborated with Aberdeen based start-up, Subsea Connect, to d
Wintershall Dea cheers fresh Nova milestone with most of subsea hardware now in place
Wintershall Dea has completed another milestone for its operated Nova project, located offshore Norway, following the installation of the risers on the North Sea field.
Airborne O&G TCP tech set for Western Australia debut
Airborne Oil & Gas TCP technology has made inroads into the Western Australia oil and gas industry for the first time. With the contract, the Netherlands-based business will supply 2” 10,000 psi TCP jumpers to be used for Monoethylene Glycol (MEG) injection service. Delivery of the TCP jumpers shoul
MDL transpooling for TechnipFMC in Norway
Maritime Developments MDL has carried out transpooling of a flexible jumper for TechnipFMC in Norway. The complete scope of work consisted of project engineering and onshore execution of transpooling of a 6-inch flowline from a storage reel onto the quayside using the MDL second-generation RDS. This
Neptune setting up world’s longest heated production pipeline
Installation of the world’s longest heated subsea production pipeline is underway in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Once completed, the 36-kilometre electrically trace-heated (ETH) pipe-in-pipe solution will transport oil from the Neptune Energy-operated Fenja field to the Njord A platform,
Subsea 7 wins offshore Trinidad and Tobago
Oslo-listed Subsea 7 said it has secured a ‘sizeable’ contract from an undisclosed client for work offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The contract scope covers the project management, engineering, procurement, installation and pull-in of one subsea rigid flowline and flexible riser together with flexible
Jacket foundation for Moray East OSP1 in place
The jacket foundation for the third offshore transformer module (OTM) for Moray East offshore wind farm has been installed at the site off the Scottish coast. According to the project’s latest Notice of Operations, the jack-up vessel Seajacks Scylla installed the OSP1 jacket on 30 August. Meanwhile,
DEME’s trio starts working at Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm
DEME’s vessels Neptune, D’Artagnan, and Bonny River have been deployed on the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project, with some of the work now underway at the site located some 12 kilometres off the coast of the Guérande peninsula in France. The company’s cutter suction dredger D’Artagnan and trailing
Boskalis Subsea Services wraps up Perenco UK contract in North Sea
Boskalis Subsea Services has completed a multi-million-pound contract awarded by Perenco UK to support a pipeline project in the UK’s Southern North Sea basin. One of the firm’s dive support vessels (DSV) the Boka Da Vinci, was mobilised to replace a 29-metre section of pipeline, which delivers hydr
ACE Winches completes Karish work in Israel
ACE Winches, a Balmoral Group company, has completed a shore-pull project for a 2.7km 30” gas sales export pipeline for the Karish gas development field in the south-east Mediterranean Sea, offshore Israel. Working closely with client TechnipFMC, the project scope included the supply of the vessel a
DeepGreen formalizes partnerships with research institutions
DeepGreen Metals has formalized partnerships with scientific research institutions and universities in an investment into its ongoing deep-sea discovery program to characterize the potential impacts of lifting polymetallic nodules up from the bottom of the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the Pacifi