The €20-million flagship EU tidal energy project, Enabling Future Arrays in Tidal (EnFAIT), has reduced the cost of tidal energy by 15 per cent and grown its supply chain from four to 14 EU countries. EnFAIT is an academic-industry collaboration between nine European partners focused on demonstratin
Reservoir stimulation technology provider Fishbones has appointed Lars-Tore Berg as its chief technology officer and also increased its staff base by 25%. Following successful new projects in Qatar, Egypt and China, the seven new hires will be based across the company’s sales and R&D teams and will
DeepOcean has successfully completed the 36-inch oil export pipeline spool tie-in project on the Johan Sverdrup field for Equinor, the world’s first offshore diver-less remote hyperbaric tie-in operation. Back in July 2017, DeepOcean won an EPCI contract for performing remote hyperbaric tie-in of th
iSURVEY has signed a contract with Lundin Norway to undertake a campaign of drilling hazard surveys in the North Sea and in the Barents Sea. Work begins in June, with a seabed geological survey and continues with the series of drilling hazard surveys, which are planned to continue into the autumn. T
Shearwater has brought into operation a total of 10 vessels for the 2019 northern hemisphere summer season. High customer activity and successful integration of the marine seismic acquisition assets and operations of Schlumberger over the past six months provides Shearwater a 33-month vessel backlog
Fugro has recently contributed more than 110,000 square kilometers of high-resolution bathymetry data in the North Atlantic Ocean to help improve the quality and coverage of seabed mapping in the region. The dataset, which covers an area the size of Iceland, was delivered to two complementary progra
Wintershall Dea has installed two subsea templates on the ocean floor in Norway, marking a major milestone for the operated Nova project. The installation unlocks the next phase of the field development, with 65 kilometers of pipelines now ready to be laid in preparation for tie-back to the nearby G
NKT has been awarded the turnkey project from Equinor for the 132 kV high-voltage cable connecting the oil and gas platforms Johan Sverdrup 2 and Gina Krog. Equinor has selected NKT as the turnkey supplier for the high-voltage cable project connecting the oil and gas platforms Gina Krog and Johan Sv
DCN Diving, the Dutch subsea service specialist based in Bergen op Zoom, said it has expanded it cooperation with Solstad by chartering the vessel Normand Mermaid in support of its North Sea Dive/ROV campaigns. Scopes lined-up currently include construction / installation, IMR and decommissioning. B
The Danish Comtec Int and HeliPPE have opened a supply base in Grimsby, the UK, for personal protective equipment (PPE) and related services for the offshore wind industry. Located at Grimsby’s new GRO Centre, the Offshore Wind Supply Base will service rental PPE equipment on site, as well as carry
The Danish Comtec Int and HeliPPE have opened a supply base in Grimsby, the UK, for personal protective equipment (PPE) and related services for the offshore wind industry. Located at Grimsby’s new GRO Centre, the Offshore Wind Supply Base will service rental PPE equipment on site, as well as carry
Swan Hunter, along with its partner DOC, has completed load-in spooling operations for the Elia Modular Offshore Grid (MOG) project. The contract was awarded to load-in and store 5km of the Modular Offshore Grid spare export cable from the Tideway Living Stone cable lay vessel. Swan Hunter’s newest
The Modular Offshore Grid (MOG), the switchyard platform in the North Sea that will soon bundle together cables from offshore wind farms and connect them to the Belgium mainland, Elia said. The first of two cables was connected to the mainland at Zeebrugge, meaning that the MOG is nearly ready to fu
Pipeline installation of the offshore part of Balticconnector, the Estonian-Finnish gas interconnection, is set to begin. In 2018 all preparatory offshore works were completed, and the seabed is now ready for the pipeline to be installed. All the offshore pipes – more than 6,400 in number – with a t
