Ocean Infinity has launched its third vessel – the Normand Frontier. The vessel has now been mobilised, having been signed on a three-year year charter with the Norwegian ship owner Solstad Offshore in December 2018. The mobilisation of this third vessel adds to Ocean Infinity’s current fleet consis
Shawcor’s pipe coating division has entered into a letter of intent with Saipem for the proposed Payara development project located in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana. The coating value of this phase is estimated to be similar to the individual phases of the Liza development that have already bee
Mermaid Maritime, a provider of subsea and drilling services to the offshore oil and gas industry, has reported net loss of $6.4 million for the three-month period ended September 30, 2019. This result compares with loss of some $1.9 million in the corresponding period in 2018. The Singapore-listed
Eco Wave Power has started the assembly phase of the hydraulic land-located conversion unit for its first grid connected installation in Israel. This will be the first time that wave energy will connect to the national electric grid in Israel and a special Feed in Tariff (FIT) will be determined for
Saipem has secured a subsea contract by ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana (EEPGL) for the proposed Payara development project located in the Stabroek block. The contract scope includes the supply of subsea structures, risers and flowlines. Saipem was awarded earlier subsea
Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO) said it will be closing its Norwegian wholly owned subsidiary, Swire Seabed, and its three associated companies, namely Swire Seabed Subsea, Swire Seabed Shipping and Swire Seabed Sea. This change will take effect from the end of February 2020. SPO’s managing director, P
i-Tech 7, Subsea 7’s Life of Field business unit, has completed an underwater inspection in lieu of dry-docking (UWILD) project for Borr Drilling in the North Sea. Borr Drilling required a hull inspection for its Paragon MSS-1 mid-water semi-submersible, to meet ABS intermediate survey certification
Fugro’s collaboration with Areté to develop the Rapid Airborne Multibeam Mapping System (RAMMS) has resulted in improved maritime domain awareness for the US Navy. RAMMS is based on Areté’s Pushbroom Imaging Littoral Lidar System (PILLS), an airborne seabed mapping capability developed through a US
Flexential is expanding its FlexAnywhere offering with providing customers direct access to Seaborn Networks’ transoceanic platform for the low latency, high-speed, 72-terabits-per-second connection to Latin America. The Latin American subsea cable, called Seabras-1, links New York/New Jersey, U.S.
Prysmian has delivered the HVDC offshore grid connection project DolWin3, off the German North Sea coast. The Italian subsea cables specialist had secured this project in February 2013, with a contract awarded by Alstom Grid (now GE Grid GmbH) on behalf of the Dutch-German grid operator TenneT. DolW
Vattenfall has contracted 3sun Group to carry out statutory inspections across its offshore and onshore wind farms. Under the deal, 3sun will provide inspections across Vattenfall’s 50 offshore and onshore wind farms in the UK, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. “Vattenfall is delighted t
Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of Vår Energi and its pipe and subsea portfolio on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The audit, from October this year, included inspection of Vår Energi and its portfolio of pipelines, risers, control cables and subsea facilities on th
Solstad Offshore has been awarded a long-term contract with Global Offshore, part of the Global Marine Group for the construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Clipper. The contract is scheduled to start in the first quarter 2020 and have a duration of 3 years. In addition to the fixed term, the deal
TechnipFMC has entered into memorandum of agreement (MOA) to sell the G1201 subsea vessel as it aims to optimize the profile and size of its subsea fleet. The MOA is subject to certain conditions precedent to complete the transaction. TechnipFMC expects to complete the sale in December as these cond
