L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro, in consortium with Subsea 7 has won another award for two projects from Saudi Aramco. The award consists of engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of three Oil Production Deck Manifolds and Subs
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
Bibby HydroMap will be providing survey support to Nekton Deep Ocean Research Institute for their Seychelles Expedition in March 2019. Bibby HydroMap will be providing a hydrographic surveyor to take part in this scientific discovery opportunity to help make a difference, specifically undertaking ba
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
Trans Adriatic Pipeline project (TAP) has completed financial close in December 2018, securing € 3.9 billion – the largest project finance agreed for a European infrastructure project in 2018. Luca Schieppati, TAP’s managing director, said: “With the financial close now achieved, TAP has reached ano
PGS has started the Phase 4 of the Sabah MultiClient 3D (MC3D) survey using the Ramform Hyperion vessel. Sabah represents the first ever MultiClient project in Malaysia, the company said. PGS will acquire up to 10 000 sq. km of GeoStreamer data, adding to the existing 37 000 sq. km multi-phased Saba
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks Transmission (SSEN Transmission), the wholly-owned subsidiary of SSE plc, has completed the construction, commissioning and energisation of the new Caithness-Moray electricity transmission link. Caithness-Moray is the largest single investment ever undertak
Norwegian offshore company Østensjø Rederi has decided to rename the survey/research vessel Sun Enabler before the start of the new Fugro contract in March. The vessels’ new name will be “Edda Sun”, in line with the rest of the Edda-fleet and Østensjø Rederi’s tradition. The first Edda Sun was an an
Aqualis Offshore, part of Oslo-listed energy consultancy group Aqualis, has set up an office in Perth, Western Australia, to support oil and gas developments in the Australasia region. “We have supported important projects offshore Australia in recent years and believe it represents a market with go
Blue Water Shipping (BWS) has put into operation the world’s strongest reachstacker at the port areas in Esbjerg, Denmark. According to BWS, the reachstacker has a lifting capacity of 152 tons and is a result of the targeted development work with the Danish supplier N.C. Nielsen. The new machine is
