Subsea services group Acteon is adding subsea cutting expertise to its Claxton brand with the acquisition of Proserv’s international Field Technology Services and Survey business units. The Field Technology Services business offers cutting, friction stud welding and pipeline maintenance services fro
Swedish survey specialist MMT has been assigned by EirGrid to perform a geophysical survey over the existing East West Interconnector in the Irish Sea. At 262km in length, 186km of which is beneath the Irish Sea, the East West Interconnector (EWIC) links the electricity transmission grids of Ireland
Siemens Gamesa has taken over operational control of the scheduled maintenance and troubleshooting of turbines at the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the UK, according to the project’s latest Weekly Notice of Operations. Siemens Gamesa has engaged crew transfer vessels (CTVs) Seacat Mischief and Seac
James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS) has completed deep-towed subsea survey project for Lukoil in waters proven to preserve treasures dating back to Venetian golden era of centuries ago. Conducted offshore Romania, in the Black Sea at some 1000 meters water depth, the deep-towed subsea survey covered
Orkney-based Leask Marine will be carrying out diving operations at the EMEC Tidal Test Site Fall of Warness. During the ops, between July 8 – 14, 2019, vessels C-Spartan, Explorer, Kirkwall Bay and Reggie will be moored alongside Magallanes’ ATIR platform currently on site. The ATIR tidal energy co
Altus Intervention has secured contracts with TechnipFMC Island Offshore Subsea (TIOS), a TechnipFMC and Island Offshore company, for the provision of wireline services across three of their vessels. The vessels include Island Constructor, Island Frontier and Island Wellserver. The contract duration
Equinor has agreed with Lundin Petroleum to divest a 16 percent shareholding in Lundin for a direct interest of 2.6 percent in the Johan Sverdrup field and a cash consideration of around USD 650 million. “Since 2016 we have more than doubled the value of our investment in Lundin. This transaction gi
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DeepOcean has been awarded a contract by Equinor for performing marine operations in connection with installation of the Vigdis Boosting Station and associated in-field structures and flexibles. The award to DeepOcean covers project management, engineering and offshore installation activities. The o
Rever Offshore has completed three standalone contracts for energy major Total E&P UK. The contracts utilized Rever Offshore’s multi-purpose dive support and offshore construction vessel (DSV) Rever Polaris, and ROV support vessel (ROVSV) Rever Sapphire. Operating over 100 days across North Sea asse
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has seen vessel utilization for the second quarter 2019 at 73% compared with 31% for the second quarter in 2018. In the second quarter of 2019, the company’s vessels were allocated 45% to proprietary work and 28% to multi-client projects. In the comparable quarter
Equinor has, on behalf of the Oseberg partners, made an oil discovery related to Oseberg Vestflanken. The well was drilled by the Askepott rig and the discovery will soon be put on stream via the new, unmanned and remote-operated H platform on the Oseberg field. Included in the Oseberg Vestflanken P
Hydrex has developed a new method to clean propeller blades underwater in close communication with the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. This method complies with the environmental regulations in Belgium and the Netherlands and as a result, Hydrex has been given permission to cl
