Aker Solutions has been awarded two contracts from Island Offshore to provide well intervention services for Statoil in the North Sea. Scope of work is to deliver downhole well intervention services from Island Offshore’s two riserless well intervention vessels Island Frontier and Island Wellserver.
Van Oord Offshore Wind Projects has successfully installed all 27 monopiles for the Teesside Wind Farm. Foundation installation began on the 6th of February 2012 and the last monopile has been installed last weekend. This means that the installation of the Monopiles has been completed ahead of sched
Millions of users of the submarine cable SEA-ME-WE-4 in Bangladesh were affected after the cable experienced a cut on Wednesday afternoon off the coast of Singapore, Channel News Asia reported. Managing director of the Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company stated that it may take a week for the system
OutSmart opens the first offshore wind Operations Centre for the German market in Emden at the end of this year. The operations centre will be manned 24/7 to operate offshore wind farms in the German North Sea and coordinate all maintenance and logistic activities. Launching customer is Trianel for
OutSmart opens the first offshore wind Operations Centre for the German market in Emden at the end of this year. The operations centre will be manned 24/7 to operate offshore wind farms in the German North Sea and coordinate all maintenance and logistic activities. Launching customer is Trianel for
Prime Minister David Cameron and the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg agreed a landmark energy partnership between the UK and Norway designed to secure affordable and sustainable long term energy supplies. The Norway-UK Energy Partnership for Sustainable Growth heralds closer collaboration
After many months of manufacturing and preparation, it is now time for the array cable installation to commence on the Anholt project. Over the past year, Nexans Deutschland has been manufacturing array cables for the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm in three different cross sections with a total length of
DeepOcean AS, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding AS, has been awarded a contract by AF Group in connection with the removal and recycling contract for the B-11 riser platform cessation project for Statoil, on behalf of Gassco as operator for Gassled. The contract is an option in the existing co
The installation of the wind turbines on Anholt offshore wind farm will commence in September, but already now, the preparations in and around Grenaa Harbour are in full activity before Siemens Wind Power commences the installation works. As the installation vessels also have to jack up in Grenaa No
Aker Solutions aims to build up a 1 700-strong London engineering hub – thereby creating 1 300 new jobs – by 2015, as growth in global oil and gas markets drives demand for the company’s technologies and services. Øyvind Eriksen, executive chairman of Aker Solutions, shared this ambition with Prime
CGGVeritas announced that it will begin acquiring a fourth repeat survey (LoFS04) on the Ekofisk field in the North Sea as part of the multi-year Life-of-Field Seismic (LoFS) program for which it was awarded both the seismic data acquisition and processing. Mobilization is starting early June 2012,
Primeline and CNOOC Ltd. have received formal approval of the environmental impact assessment report (“EIA”) relating to the development of the LS36-1 gas field from the State Oceanic Administration (“SOA”). The SOA had previously approved the routing of pipeline for the Development. The Safety Asse
Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, inaugurates its new submarine cable plant in Finland, having invested approximately €40 million to increase its production capacity at the Pikkala facility, already one of the Group’s centres of excellence for high voltag
The world’s largest LNG producing company, Qatargas, has awarded pipeline engineering company STATS Group a multi-million pound 10 year contract to provide remote pipeline isolation equipment. STATS will design, manufacture, test and supply a new range of high integrity Remote Tecno Plugs™ for 32”,
