Equinor and its partner Neptune have found oil in the Sigrun East prospect in the North Sea. Recoverable resources are estimated at between 7 and 17 million barrels of oil equivalent. “Sigrun East is a win-win. Exploring near existing infrastructure we prove resources that can be profitably realized
Shearwater GeoServices has secured an award of a large towed streamer 3D acquisition and Fast Track processing project in the Black Sea by Total E&P Bulgaria. The survey covers 5,500 sq. km in the Han Asparuh block 1-21 using Flexisource triple source together with Fast Track processing enabled by S
Subsea 7 has secured a contract, worth between USD 150 million and USD 300 million, by Murphy Exploration and Production Company – USA for the subsea installation services related to the Samurai, Khaleesi, and Mormont developments tying back to the King’s Quay semi- submersible. The King’s Quay host
Norwegian geophysical services company EMGS has received a letter of intent with a minimum value of USD 3.6 million from an undisclosed customer on behalf of a JV block consortium, offshore Namibia. Under the terms of the pending data licensing agreement, a final survey option type and license fee i
INFOMAR has advised Ireland’s Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport that a hydrographic and geophysical surveys will be undertaken in the Celtic Sea and Atlantic Ocean between April and October 2020. The INFOMAR Programme (Integrated Mapping for the Sustainable Development of Irelands Marine Re
Moray East has completed offshore piling works on its 950MW offshore wind farm which is under construction in the Moray Firth off the North East coast of Scotland. Work to install the pin piles in the seabed started in May of last year, using the jack-up installation vessel ‘Apollo’ which worked out
Ocean Infinity has secured a contract from ExxonMobil for geophysical and geotechnical data acquisition within the Stabroek block offshore Guyana. The company will carry out high-resolution autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) survey, simultaneously deploying its AUVs in water depths of between 70 me
SeaRobotics has deployed its SR-Surveyor M1.8 ASV in cooperation with Morgan & Eklund (M&E) to survey a twenty-mile stretch of waterways in the hard-hit islands of the Bahamas. “We designed the SR-Surveyor M1.8 to excel at working in hurricane and storm-damaged areas, without putting manned vessels
Danish developer Ørsted has seen the first inter-array cable set up at its Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind complex in the Netherlands. Borssele 1 and 2 are located around 23 kilometers off the Dutch coast in 14 to 36 meters of water. The dutch offshore contractor Van Oord is responsible for the transpo
Maersk Decom has received a contract to provide complete plugging and abandonment of Tullow Oil’s Banda and Tiof fields offshore Mauritania. This is the first project where Maersk Decom will provide an end-to-end plugging and abandonment solution under one single contract, the company said. The solu
Heerema’s Aegir vessel has finalized the installation of the 4.000 mT jacket and topside for Qatargas’ North Field Bravo Living Quarters Expansion project. The Aegir firstly mobilized to Qatar’s Ras Laffan Port where both structures were constructed by Rosetti Marino at the N-Kom yard. On February 1
Tidal energy developer Magallanes Renovables, has been testing its second generation, 2MW tidal platform ATIR at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), since 2018, as part of the Ocean_2G project. The aim of the project was to test, validate and pre-certify Magallanes’ device and this was achieve
Fugro has completed a second marine unexploded ordnance (UXO) risk mitigation project for TenneT, this time on a cable route survey as part of the construction of the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm. The 13-month project involved surveying the route for explosive remnants of war (ERW), includ
Ørsted has signed a wharf lease and a 20-year operations and maintenance (O&M) lease with the Port of Taichung in Taiwan. The leased wharfs will be upgraded and utilized for the construction of the Greater Changhua offshore wind farms, and the O&M site will serve as the O&M base for Ørsted‘s Changhu
