MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from February 10 – February 16, 2020. https://marineenergy.biz/2020/02/10/moceans-wave-power-for-subsea-tiebacks-and-auvs/ https://marineenergy.biz/2020/02/12/baywa-building-europes-largest-floating-solar-farm-in-netherlands/ htt
Saga Subsea has, with its parent company Viking Kystservice, purchased a vessel to be utilized for inshore and nearshore marine operations. The vessel is specially built for survey and ROV operations but it has also been customized as a AUV support vessel on previous campaigns. Currently located at
Norwegian contractor Reach Subsea said it has been awarded several contracts and call-offs under frame agreements for 2020 execution, representing about 200 project days. The projects involve both inspection, survey and light construction work across Europe and America, for operators in the oil & ga
Well-Safe Solutions has awarded a contract to Schlumberger for the provision of plug and abandonment well services. The scope includes the supply of cementing service, wireline services, wellbore fluid services and fishing, milling and swarf recovery services. The work will be aboard the company’s f
Subsea equipment solutions specialist Ashtead Technology has completed subsea installation monitoring work to support the Northern Lights Carbon Capture Storage project (CCS) in the North Sea. Developed by Equinor in partnership with Shell and Total, the Northern Lights project is the first of its k
Statkraft Ireland subsidiary, North Irish Sea Array (NISA), is seeking permission to carry out marine site investigation surveys for the proposed offshore wind farm project in the Irish Sea. The marine surveys will include geophysical, geotechnical, metocean marine, ecological and archaeological sur
Royal IHC and the trade unions FNV, CNV vakmensen.nl, RMU and De Unie have today signed a covenant within the framework of the programme for the replacement of the Dutch Walrus class submarines. In this covenant, the parties have agreed to intensively work together when Royal IHC and its French part
DEME Offshore and Herrenknecht have signed a deal for the fabrication of a subsea drill to be deployed at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. This is the first wind farm in the world to use drilled XL-monopile foundations. In 2019, a consortium including DEME Offshore and Eiffage Métal w
BayWa is constructing the world’s largest floating PV installation outside of China, consisting of nearly 73,000 PV modules, 13 floating transformers and 192 inverter boats, on a sandpit lake in Zwolle in the Netherlands. Dr. Benedikt Ortmann, global director of Solar Projects at BayWa, stated: “In
Spanish grid operator Red Electrica has launched a tender call for the provision geophysical, UXO and geotechnical services to be performed along a corridor of approximately 345 kilometers between Spanish mainland and Mallorca Island, in the Mediterranean Sea. The purposes of the geophysical and geo
Forum Energy Technologies has secured an order from Amundsen Science (Université Laval, Canada) to supply a light work-class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to support its Arctic scientific research activities. The vehicle will be installed on board the Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen and
Mermaid Maritime has incorporated an indirect wholly owned subsidiary – Mermaid Subsea Services in the United Kingdom (MSS UK) on 7 February 2020. The Singapore-listed company said it intends to utilize MSS UK as a vehicle to expand the provision of its subsea and related services into the North Sea
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from February 03 – February 09, 2020. https://marineenergy.biz/2020/02/05/ec-and-eif-set-up-e75m-blueinvest-fund/ https://marineenergy.biz/2020/02/04/atlantis-opens-new-office-in-japan/ https://marineenergy.biz/2020/02/07/carnegi
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (February 03 – February 09). https://subseaworldnews.com/2020/02/07/saipem-nets-over-500-million-in-contracts/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2020/02/07/red-ink-for-aker-solutions/ https://subseaworldnews
