Ørsted has officially started operations on the 1,214MW Hornsea One, the largest offshore wind farm in the world. The project’s first operational team of 32 set sail from Grimsby Royal Docks to the wind farm located 120 kilometres out to sea on 31 May. They are part of two shift-based teams that are
Plexus Holdings has formed PPC, a majority owned JV which will exclusively supply Plexus with surface production Xmas trees and wellhead annulus outlet valves. Following the sale of its jack-up exploration wellhead rental business to TechnipFMC, the formation of PPC is in line with Plexus’ strategy
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Olympic Subsea has reported net loss of NOK 27 million ($3 million) for the quarter ended March 31, 2019, versus net loss of NOK 53 million ($6 million) same time last year. The Oslo-listed company generated operating income of NOK 131 million for the first quarter of 2019, compared to NOK 96 millio
Boskalis Subsea Services said it has been awarded over £100 million worth of contracts in the North Sea over the last six months. These include the Total Tyra redevelopment project, an inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) campaign for Repsol Sinopec, a decommissioning contract with Spirit Energy
Energy consultancy Xodus has strengthened its team with the appointment of a new advanced analysis lead. Ismael Ripoll will be responsible for leading the team which specialises in finite element analysis (FEA) covering a variety of areas including steel and flexible pipelines, pressure vessels and
Ireland’s Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport has informed that a pre-lay grapnel run and route clearance operations in the Irish Sea will take place on Friday. The operations are a part of installation of the marine part of the HAVHINGSTEN submarine fibre optic cable system. The work will be
Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar and President of France Emmanuel Macron have submitted a joint request to the European Commission seeking financial support for the Celtic Interconnector electricity link between Ireland and France. Varadkar and Macron co-signed a letter today before the European C
Spica Technology is to deliver 32 remote maintenance platforms to be installed on the wind turbines of Ørsted’s Burbo Bank Extension wind farm in Liverpool Bay, UK. The 258MW wind farm comprises 32 MHI Vestas 8MW wind turbines which have been in operation since May 2017. The remote maintenance platf
Oslo-listed SeaBird has narrowed its quarterly loss for the period ended March 31, 2019 as revenues picked up on higher utilization, compared to prior-year first quarter. The seismic data provider for oil and gas companies posted loss of around $0.5 million for the first quarter of 2019, compared to
London-based private equity firm Blue Water Energy has acquired Pipeline Technique Limited (PTL), a provider of pipeline welding, field joint coating and spoolbase services to the energy industry, from Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC). PTL is headquartered in Huntly, UK with additional worksites in
Guernsey Electricity has confirmed that the activity is underway to lay the new subsea cable which links the Island to Jersey. Exploratory and research work has been carried out underwater and the cable is currently under construction in Sweden. An environmental survey along the cable route in Guern
Vattenfall has issued a tender seeking wind turbine maintenance services on the 288MW DanTysk offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The service agreement covers the scheduled maintenance of 54 wind turbines in 2020 and 80 units in 2021. The contract is expected to start in June 2020 and end in
A new GBP 4 million cross-sector project is set to develop the world’s first fully autonomous robotic inspection and repair solution for offshore wind farms. The Innovate UK-funded MIMRee (Multi-Platform Inspection, Maintenance and Repair in Extreme Environments) is a two-year project bringing in ex
