Petrofac has entered into a Preferred Supplier Agreement with SSE Renewables to design, supply and install the HVAC onshore and offshore substations for the Seagreen wind farm project. The wind farm will be located 27 kilometers off the coast of Angus. Petrofac has started early work on the project.
MDL has carried out a complete overhaul of a number of lifting equipment on board a North Sea FPSO, in the facility’s 20th year in operation. The marine services project, which reinstated a 25-tonne riser pull-in winch and three 200-tonne anchor chain winches, is estimated to have contributed to ext
InterMoor has recently wrapped up FPSO mooring installation project offshore West Africa. Acteon’s mooring specialist was comissioned, through Maersk Supply Service, to provide suction embedded plate anchors (SEPLAs) technology for permanent FPSO mooring system. For the project, InterMoor designed a
Aberdeen-based well integrity player Unity has completed a preparatory plugging and abandonment project in partnership with oilfield services provider Petrofac. Unity deployed its Temporary Abandonment Cap Test Tool (TACTT) to pressure test two suspended mudline wells in the North Sea in support of
Deutsche Windtechnik has won a contract to provide maintenance of the six Adwen AD 5-116 (M5000) wind turbines on the alpha ventus offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The contract was awarded by Deutsche Offshore-Testfeld und Infrastruktur (DOTI), a joint venture established by EWE AG, E.ON
Woodside and its partners, Cairn and FAR, have signed a joint Final Investment Decision (FID) statement, in agreement with Petrosen and the Government of Senegal for the Sangomar field development. The FID was signed at an official ceremony on Tuesday night with the Minister of Petroleum and Energie
Searcher Seismic said it has completed of the Gulf of Papua prospectivity study in Papua New Guinea. The survey was performed by Discover Geoscience on behalf of Searcher and consists of five main sections; tectono-stratigraphic framework, tectonostratigraphic elements, facies and EOD mapping, charg
Royal Navy has added unmanned mine hunters and survey technology which will be used on live operations from March. Sailors trained in this of type mission will be stationed at HMNB Clyde, where the remotely operated kit, including submersibles and boats designed to hunt down mines but also analyse t
Sustainable Marine Energy Canada (SMEC) is proposing an electrical grid-connected tidal energy project at Grand Passage, located between the communities of Westport and Freeport in Digby County, Nova Scotia. The project will begin with the connection of the PLAT-I tidal energy platform (outfitted wi
Veja Mate Offshore Project GmbH has selected fos4X GmbH to provide a rotor blade condition monitoring system on the 402MW Veja Mate wind farm in the German North Sea. The fos4X “retroX” system, consisting of a sensor platform and intelligent software, was installed on strategically selected 10% of t
NKT has been awarded a five-year service agreement by the Irish power grid operator EirGrid for cable related services including repair works for the East West Interconnector. The East West Interconnector is a 200 kV HVDC power cable with capacity of 500 MW between Ireland and Great Britain. For NKT
Polarcus said it has once more agreed to postpone the redelivery of seismic research vessel Vyacheslav Tikhonov with Sovcomflot (SCF). The vessel was due for redelivery until January 15, 2020, while potential projects were pursued by SCF. The redelivery of the vessel has now been agreed until the co
Subsea Global Solutions (SGS) has entered into a new agreement with Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCCL) to provide underwater hull maintenance and repair services for their fleet of 58 ships. The new agreement is a continuation of the long-term relationship between the two companies. RCCL VP of Glob
SapuraOMV Upstream has produced first gas from its Larak field offshore Malaysia following the start-up at the end of December. The Larak field is part of gas fields discovered in 2014 under the SK408 production sharing contract (PSC). The fields are tied back into an existing processing facility an
