Petrofac has been appointed well operator by Tullow Oil for the next phase of its Thames Decommissioning Project, following the award of a contract worth around $16 million. As well operator, Petrofac will be responsible for the execution of plug and abandonment operations on three of Tullow Oil’s s
Xodus Group has carried out a concept study and Front End Engineering Design (FEED) project for a North Sea operator and determined that the operator will save up to £59 million by adopting a Not Normally Attended (NNA) status ahead of decommissioning the field. The North Sea field recently complete
Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) has recently completed sea trials on its deep-sea Quasar work-class remotely operated vehicle (WROV). The 6000-meters-rated WROV, complemented with an electric drive dual-purpose winch and launch and recovery system (LARS), reached the seabed at 5,760 meters during the tr
L3 Technologies said it has successful demonstrated an Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) deploying, operating and recovering a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV). In what is said to be an industry first, the C-Worker 7 ASV deployed an inspection-class ROV for vertical and horizontal subsea inspection. Th
Offshore survey specialist G-tec has been awarded contracts for geotechnical investigation services for Ørsted’s Gode Wind 03 and 04 and German Cluster offshore wind farm projects. Under the contracts, G-Tec will carry out geotechnical investigations and laboratory analysis of samples taken from the
SeaBird Exploration has secured two new contracts in West Africa and Gulf of Mexico and started looking for opportunities for vessel capacity expansion. The company has received a letter of award for a niche 3D survey in West Africa, with a total value of approximately USD 6.5 million. The survey is
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Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Shell for the Arran gas field development, located approximately 150 miles east of Aberdeen. The contract scope includes project management, engineering, procurement, construction and installation of 60 kilometres of mechanically lined pipe-in- pipe production
Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania has launched Bibby Marine Services’ second Service Operations Vessel (SOV) 9020 – Bibby WaveMaster Horizon. Upon delivery later this year, the SOV will begin maintenance work on two EnBW and Enbridge-owned wind farms in the German North Sea – Hohe See and Albatros –
Motive Offshore has secured a multi-million investment from EV Private Equity (EV) to allow accelerated growth in the oil, gas and marine market. The move will see EV take a shareholding stake in the business and two positions on the board as Motive focuses on growing organically with the manufactur
A.P. Moller – Maersk has decided to retain full ownership of Maersk Supply Service, a company operating in the offshore support vessel industry. The company decided to retain the ownership of Maersk Supply Service after investigating several structural solutions but couldn’t find the right fit, due
Offshore services player Oceanteam and its Mexican partner Diavaz have reached an agreement to terminate the joint venture structure, DOT Group. DOT was set up by the two groups in 2014 in order to service the Mexican offshore market. Oceanteam held 40 percent which will be taken over by Diavaz. The
Neptune Energy and its joint venture partners BP and Japex have made the final investment decision for the Seagull project in the UK North Sea. Neptune submitted the Field Development Plan (FDP) for Seagull to the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) on Thursday, and upon the OGA’s approval of the FDP, the f
Zeeland Tidal Power partnership has laid down the ambition to generate 100 megawatts of tidal energy in Zeeland before the year 2025. The Zeeland Tidal Power consists of the companies Hillebrand, Istimewa, DELTA Energy, PZEM, Zeeuwind and Tocardo. Zeeland is the only province in the Netherlands with
