First Subsea has delivered beach landing cable protection system for the WindFloat Atlantic project. The Lancaster-based firm delivered CPS for the export cables on the 25MW project located 20 kilometres off the coast of Viana do Castelo in Portugal for Portuguese transmission system operator REN. H
GEOMAR has acquired a moving vessel profiler (MVP) from AML Oceanographic as part of the Helmholtz Association funded observing infrastructure “Modular Observation Solutions for Earth Systems” (MOSES). MOSES is comprised of flexible and mobile observation modules which are designed to investigate th
An exploration well is being drilled south of the Troll field in the North Sea, for the first time, with the objective not to find oil or gas, but to investigate whether the reservoir in the deep Johansen Formation is suitable for storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). The Northern Lights project, consist
Prysmian Group has secured €100 million contract from EDF Renewables for the development of submarine and land power cables to connect the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm to the Scottish mainland power grid. The NnG offshore wind farm, located around 15 km off the Fife coast, will generate
Saipem has been awarded a contract by the French company EDF Renewables for the construction of the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) wind farm offshore Scotland. This is the first turn-key project awarded to Saipem in the offshore wind farm sector. The scope of work consists of the engineering, procurement, c
Huisman has opened its facilities for submarine production in The Netherlands. For the approaching Dutch Walrus-class submarine replacement project Huisman is directing its capabilities and parts of its Dutch facilities towards the naval building cluster. With this portfolio-extension, Huisman aims
DOF Subsea, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DOF Group, reported loss in the third quarter of 2019 of NOK 1.09 billion ($119 million), compared to loss of NOK 98 million ($10.7 million) in the corresponding period in 2018. Year-to-date result for 2019 came out negative, with loss of NOK 1.1 billion ($12
Trelleborg has won a contract from Ørsted to provide NjordGuard cable protection system, for the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan. The company will provide 235 NjordGuard cable protection systems and bellmouths, which will protect all inter-array and export cables on the project
Vår Energi has signed frame agreements with Apply Sørco and Aker Solutions for modifications and maintenance support for the company’s operated assets. The frame agreements, which cover operation, maintenance, modification and engineering services, have a duration of three years with options for a t
Shearwater GeoServices has secured a seismic acquisition contract by Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) in the Black Sea. The survey covers an area of approximately 600 sqkm in the western Black Sea. The one-month project will start in Q4 2019 and will be conducted by the Polar Empress. “We are very pleased
Royal IHC has hit a milestone in the design and build of an integrated 550t reel lay system for Shanghai Salvage. It will be the first reel lay system in the Chinese market and moreover, it will be one of the largest and most sophisticated reel lay systems worldwide. Namely, this month, the tower an
From 2020, all vessels in the PGS fleet will share bathymetry information collected using echo sounders, with The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. The project aims to map the entire ocean floor by the year 2030. The bathymetric data will support Seabed 2030’s crowdsourced bathymetry init
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Bluefield Geoservices, a UK-based provider of specialist subsea geotechnical services announced its expansion into the Americas. The company will initially open two offices in the US, one in the northeast US to serve the immediate demands of the offshore renewable energy market, and one in the south
