Jumbo has secured an offshore decommissioning project in the North Sea by TAQA Energy. The project includes the removal, transportation and disposal of three subsea protection domes and piles. The removal operation will take place at the offshore fields located in the P15 block, 35km North West of H
Green Marine (UK) Ltd has carried out buoy maintenance on Equinor’s Hywind Scotland floating offshore wind project. Under the contract, which was awarded by Partrac, Green Marine used its vessel Green Isle to conduct the works. “These works were carried out safely, efficiently and on budget, utilisi
Ocean gliders are currently profiling waters off South Africa to collect data that supports a UK-Africa partnership aimed at improving understanding of how regional fisheries are sustained. Working in partnership with the Nelson Mandela University (NMU) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and a broad ra
SIMEC Atlantis Energy has recently completed the subsea cutting process for the decommissioning of SeaGen tidal turbine. The SeaGen turbine, previously the world record holder for tidal generation, is the first tidal generator to be decommissioned in Strangford Lough, the company said in a social me
Rem Offshore has signed a total of 5 term contracts for the fleet with a total contract value of more than NOK 200 million. The vessels which have been awarded new contracts are Rem Mira, Rem Cetus, Rem Insula, and vessels to be named Rem Trader and Rem Inspector. “The value of these contracts signi
DEME Offshore has selected tier one suppliers for its Moray East offshore windfarm foundation contract. The company said that the announcement of tier one suppliers for its EPCI works marks the culmination of around 1.5 years of work, which it carried out under an early works contract for the design
Oceaneering International has secured a contract renewal from Equinor, covering the provision of maintenance, reliability and integrity management. The contract, which was originally awarded to Oceaneering’s integrity business in 2005 and competitively tendered again in December 2013, is extended un
Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of Wintershall and its portfolio of pipes, risers, control cables and subsea facilities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The objective of the audit was to see how Wintershall follows up and safeguards the integrity of pipes, risers,
Telia Carrier and Telxius have announced an agreement for multi-terabit capacity services combining transatlantic capacity from Telxius in the new 6,600 km MAREA cable system and Telia Carrier’s European backbone network. The combination of Telia Carrier’s extensive terrestrial European and North Am
DOF Subsea Norway (DOF), together with Ocean Floor Geophysics (OFG), has completed geophysical mapping of a 5 km2 area in Bjørnafjord, Norway, for Statens Vegvesen (SVV). The project was executed using the Hugin AUV ‘Chercheur’, owned and operated by OFG, in combination with the small survey catamar
Fugro has been awarded a contract by TenneT for the delivery of UXO services at offshore wind farm development in Dutch coastal waters. The contract follows from the previous involvement in route survey activities at the site. Fugro will utilize Atlantis Dweller vessel, equipped with a work-class re
Vattenfall has issued a tender seeking a company to carry out wind turbine blade repair for its wind energy projects across Europe. The awarded company will be responsible for work on both offshore and onshore wind projects in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. According to Vatten
The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project and the Five Deeps Expedition have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) laying the groundwork for previously unexplored areas of the seafloor to be mapped and the resulting data made available for public use. Signed at the headquarters of the Int
Bibby HydroMap has embarked on a large scale UXO survey of Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm sites I & II on behalf of client Vattenfall. Using a multi-vessel approach, Bibby Tethra and Bibby Athena will together acquire over 4,000-line km of high-density magnetometer, side scan sonar, multibea
