Leask Marine’s fabrication workshop has taken delivery of two of the largest tubular sections that they have ever received for the construction of the very first tidal platform ever to be built in Orkney. Leask Marine were awarded the contract for the manufacturing and supply contract of a Surface F
Transmission system operator TenneT has chartered the Connector Express to provide supply trips to offshore platforms as well as perform inspections and repair work on structures and submarine cables from the base port of Emden. Rhenus Offshore Logistics, working in conjunction with A1 Offshore Solu
Global Marine has been contracted to undertake an emergency fibre-optic submarine cable repair to the Sirius South fibre-optic cable in the UK EEZ of the Irish Sea. The vessel CS Sovereign has already mobilised from Portland and arrived on site on Tuesday the 15th January 2019. The repair will take
The Gullfaks partners have decided to drill seven new wells and thereby improve oil recovery by 17 million barrels. On behalf of the licence partners, Equinor’s executive vice president for Development and Production Norway, Arne Sigve Nylund, presented an amended plan for development and operation
Maritime Developments (MDL) has completed a four-project North Sea campaign with TechnipFMC. The work scopes on the jobs, which took place throughout 2018, included installation and retrieval of umbilicals, jumpers, risers and flowlines. In total 16 reels were handled and close to 40km of product wa
Ingeteam has provided supervision and electrical work analysis services on Spain’s first offshore wind turbine, the 5MW Elisa prototype. At the request of project leader Esteyco, Ingeteam worked on the connection of the medium voltage submarine cable for the transmission to land, as well as on the p
Vryhof companies – Deep Sea Mooring, Vryhof Anchors and Moorlink – have recently won up to $75 million in new contracts. The contracts include landmark deals for Vryhof Anchors for the WindFloat Atlantic wind farm, offshore Portugal, the world’s first commercial floating wind farm, and the Havfarm 1
iXblue has been selected by the European Institute for Marine Studies (IUEM) to provide 8 Canopus LBL transponders for a major geodetic mission off the coast of Sicily. Deployed on the seabed, 2,500 meters below the surface, the Canopus transponders will measure the crustal deformation along the Nor
Danish marine contractor Peter Madsen Rederi (PMR) has been awarded a contract for boulder clearance at the Ostwind 2 grid connection project in the German Baltic Sea. The contract was awarded by German transmission system operator 50Hertz. The project comprises boulder clearance and survey works at
Utility ROV Services (URS) has won a contract to provide boulder relocation services on the 950MW Moray East offshore wind farm in the Scottish waters. The Fife-headquartered company plans to begin the work in the first quarter of the year using its load bearing ROV system UTROV. “This contract is a
Well services specialist, Altus Intervention UK, is investing in a new training simulator to boost the safety and competency of its personnel in the field. The new ‘MultiSIM’ portable well intervention simulator, developed by Drilling Systems, will be installed at Altus Intervention’s UK facilities
Utility ROV Services (URS) has been contracted by Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) to provide boulder relocation services on the Moray East Offshore Windfarm, located 22 km from the coast of Scotland. Utility ROV are the latest local Scottish contractor to be awarded a contract by Moray East on the of
National Grid and Energinet have entered a joint ownership and operations agreement (JOOA) to construct and operate the Viking Link – a 760 kilometer long, electricity interconnector between Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire, Great Britain and Revsing in southern Jutland, Denmark. Viking Link is now in a p
Equinor has been awarded an exploitation permit for CO2 storage on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The allocated area for storage of CO₂ is located near the Troll oil and gas field and was announced in July 2018. Equinor is currently performing front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies on sto
