PGS has completed the acquisition phase of 3D GeoStreamer surveys totaling 10 500 square kilometers over frontier acreage on the Trøndelag platform, including the Helgeland and Froan basins. According to the company, first data is expected before the end of the year, with final PSDM due in July 2020
Oslo-based Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) has been awarded a contract for the transportation of jacket foundations for the Moray East offshore wind project in Scotland, UK. The contract, awarded by DEME Offshore, includes transportation of 48 jackets from Lamprell fabrication yard, UAE to the Port o
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (September 16 – September 22). https://subseaworldnews.com/2019/09/18/oceaneering-to-supply-subsea-umbilicals-for-project-in-bay-of-bengal/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2019/09/17/deep-down-appoints-chi
Kvaerner has expanded the capacity of its facilities at Stord in the yard area, storage area and offices to increase competitiveness and position the company for future growth. In addition, Kvaerner establishes its own inhouse capacity to supply insulation boxes, which often makes up a significant p
Orange, PCCW Global and PEACE officially signed their agreement to deploy the new submarine cable- PEACE Med. The draft agreement was announced during the Capacity Europe event in November 2018. This agreement marks the arrival of the first Chinese private submarine cable in France. PEACE refers to
Repsol Norge has awarded Allseas an EPRD contract for the removal, transfer, load-in to shore and disposal of its Gyda platform in the Norwegian North Sea. The contract covers both the 18,000t topsides and 11,200t jacket, and includes an option for reinstallation on another field, which would be an
Magseis Fairfield has signed a 2-3 months contract for the lease of a MASS I node crew to a client in the Asia Pacific region. The contract includes nodes, containerized automated handling system and service personnel. It is scheduled to start in the fourth quarter 2019 when the nodes are released f
Finnish wave energy developer, AW-Energy, has completed final assembly of the first commercial WaveRoller unit. The first commercial-scale 350 kW WaveRoller unit was assembled and prepared for deployment at Peniche in Portugal. “It’s a major step forward for wave energy and the beginning of a new en
NEMOS has finalized commissioning works for 2019 Wave Energy Converter (WEC) prototype in Ostend. After the main steel components were delivered, the Power Take-Off System with sufficient data acquisition integration was fitted to the assembly. The belt drive and spring system, that connects the sub
ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK has been selected to provide an autonomous route survey capability for Project WILTON. The Royal Navy’s Mine Countermeasures & Hydrographic Capability (MHC) team are assessing the ability to ‘deliver UK Peacetime route survey capability by exploiting Maritime Autonomous Systems’.
Modus has recently completed a high-speed decommissioning survey for Rever Offshore in the North Sea using one of its Hybrid Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (HAUVs). The objective of the survey was to locate any items of debris that remained at the sites after the decommissioning of Fairfield assets
Polarcus has started the multi-vessel wide-azimuth project for WesternGeco, the geophysical services product line of Schlumberger, in the Salina del Istmo Basin in the Gulf of Mexico. The project, awarded in June, incorporates two Polarcus high-end streamer vessels plus two source vessels. According
Equinor and its partners, AkerBP and Wellesley Petroleum, have found gas in the Ørn exploration well south-west of the Marulk field in the Norwegian Sea. Recoverable resources are estimated at 8–14 million standard cubic meters of oil equivalent, corresponding to 50–88 million barrels of oil equival
Equinor, together with its partners, has started production from the Utgard gas and condensate field, spanning the Norwegian-UK border in the North Sea on Monday. Recoverable Utgard resources are estimated at around 40 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) and daily production on plateau will be a
