Harkand has secured a multi-million pound subsea inspection, repair and maintenance contract. Under the deal with Apache North Sea, the diving support vessel Harkand Atlantis will be deployed to carry out work in the Beryl field, located 350 km north-east of Aberdeen. The sixth largest oil field in
FoundOcean continues to grow its market share in the offshore renewables industry with a contract award from Alstom to grout the foundations for the first offshore trial of its 6MW Haliade 150 turbine. The turbine will be located near Ostend, 45 km off the Belgian coast. The offshore tests will targ
Rosneft starts field seismic prospecting at the license blocks Lisyansky, Kashevarovsky and Magadan-1. Rosneft holds geological study at the blocks jointly with its partner Statoil ASA (Norway). Currently 2D seismic along with shipborne gravity magnetic survey are planned for the blocks. The data is
James Fisher and Sons plc announces that its subsidiary Strainstall Limited (“Strainstall”) has been awarded a contract through Hyundai Heavy Industries to provide Total with an Integrated Marine Management System for their Moho Nord Tension Leg Platform (“TLP”) destined for installation off the Con
Aker Solutions has won a contract worth up to USD 440 million (approximately NOK 2.7 billion) to deliver the subsea production system for an oil field development in the UK North Sea. The delivery includes 25 subsea trees and six template manifolds. It also encompasses associated controls, wellheads
Herring Cove is set to get an inshore weather buoy which will transmit high resolution weather and wave data to the Halifax Port Authority. The federal and provincial governments agreed to fund the SmartATLANTIC Herring Cove Buoy Project in which Ottawa will invest $171,000, while the province will
Following years of R&D and qualifications, Innospection Ltd successfully completed its first flexible riser inspection in the North Sea in February 2013. The inspection of the flexible risers was performed using the sophisticated self-crawling inspection system named MEC-Hug, wholly developed and bu
Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Wales Cymru’s conference attracted leading industry experts to discuss the potential for harnessing tidal energy from the Severn Estuary, Penarth Times reports. Keith Jones, director of ICE Wales Cymru was quoted as saying: “The Severn Estuary carries the potenti
Coastline Surveys has been awarded a substantial contract at Seawork this week to carry out berth seabed and cable burial surveys for a European wave energy test site. The company has invited Innovatum to provide its new Cougar XT ROV fully equipped with a magnetic cable tracking system to assist on
The Blue Transmission consortium, comprising Macquarie Capital Group Limited and Barclays Infrastructure Funds, has today completed the transaction to own and operate the transmission link to Sheringham Shoal wind farm. Ofgem appointed Blue Transmission to take over ownership of the link from Scira
An investigation has been launched by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway into a serious incident on diving support vessel Skandi Arctic on 22 June 2013. The incident occurred during a manned subsea operation (MUO) on the Alvheim field in the North Sea, operated by Marathon Oil Norge AS. Diving co
At a press conference held by the Shah Deniz Consortium (SDC) in Baku, Azerbaijan, the SDC confirmed that the Trans Adriatic Pipeline has been selected to transport Shah Deniz II gas to Europe. Kjetil Tungland, Managing Director at TAP, said: “I am very pleased that the selection to transport Shah D
The SJC Parties announced that the Southeast Asia-Japan Cable (SJC) system is now operational. The system, supplied by TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. Company, and NEC Corporation, provides connectivity to key destinations to meet the growing bandwidth requirement in the region and allow for cost-
Statoil ASA has together with its partners Eni Norge AS and Petoro AS made a small gas discovery in the Nunatak prospect in PL532 in the Barents Sea. Well 7220/5-2, drilled by the rig West Hercules, encountered gas in rocks of Cretaceous age. Based on the present evaluation the discovery is consider
