Operations & Maintenance
Expro Scoops Repsol Sinopec UK North Sea Deal
International oilfield services company, Expro, has secured a five-year master services agreement with Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Limited, for well services across its UK North Sea assets. The contract is valued at $8 million for the first calendar year, which will be reviewed on an annual basis –
Laminaria scores €2M to further advance wave tech
Belgian wave energy company Laminaria has raised €2 million to support the development and full-scale demonstration of its wave energy generation technology at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Scotland.
Well-Safe Boosts Team, Selects Aberdeen HQ
Well-Safe Solutions, a new player in the decommissioning market, has appointed Jim Christie as director of programmes. The specialist well abandonment company, launched in July this year, has already assembled a senior team of eight industry experts and now employs 20 people. Well-Safe has just sign
STR Expands into Aberdeen
Great Yarmouth-based Subsea Technology & Rentals (STR) has set up a new facility in Cults, Aberdeen. The second facility within the United Kingdom represents a strategic expansion, driven by STR’s Managing Director Scott Johnstone, and should allow STR to provide its full suite of technology and sup
Wave Hub concludes cable check-up
Wave Hub has completed the inspection of its subsea cable system installed as part of its wave energy test site infrastructure located off Cornwall in the UK.
Evopod tidal unit awaits Portugal redeployment
The Marine Offshore Renewable Energy (MORE) team from the University of Algarve plans to redeploy the scaled Evopod tidal unit off Portugal in mid-September 2017.
Visund IOR Project Gets Green Light
Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved the installation of a new template at the North Sea Visund field as part of Statoil’s improved oil recovery project. Visund is an oil and gas field in the northern part of the North Sea, approximately 22 kilometers northeast of the Gullfaks fie
Wave Energy Scotland brings in engineering assistance
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has hired ITPEnergised to act as an independent advisor for the engineering design activities for each of the four WES’ novel wave energy converter (NWEC) stage 2 projects.
Bibby Offshore Wraps Up Two North Sea Contracts
Bibby Offshore has completed two contracts with Perenco and Endeavour Energy UK. Perenco appointed Bibby Offshore to perform subsea integrity inspections and maintenance works on the Inde Joint pipeline, which runs to the Bacton Gas Terminal in the Southern North Sea. The 15-day workscope saw Bibby
CorPower and CPower top Ireland’s wave technology scan
Irish marine energy project developer Simply Blue Energy (SBE) has found CorPower Ocean, and Columbia Power Technologies as the most suitable companies for the development of future commercial wave energy projects.
DOF Subsea Scores Mediterranean Job
Norway-based DOF Subsea said it has secured a contract for the provision of the multipurpose support vessel (MSV) Skandi Skansen in the Mediterranean. The contract is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter this year and secures utilization of 90 days plus options for the vessel, the Oslo-listed fi
Aker BP Reduces Johan Sverdrup Phase 1 Investment Costs
Aker BP, along with its partners, has reduced the investment costs for Phase 1 of Johan Sverdrup development by NOK 5 billion to NOK 92 billion. The Johan Sverdrup development passed the halfway mark over the summer, and is now nearly 60% complete, the company informed. Since the plan for developmen
Swire Seabed and Seabed Solutions Join Forces
Swire Seabed and Seabed Solutions have signed an exclusive cooperation agreement for the provision of subsea dredging services worldwide. The expertise of the two companies is complementary, with Swire Seabed providing the Seabed Excavator, subsea dredging vehicle, and Seabed Solutions years of dred
Top news, Aug 28 – Sep 3, 2017
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from August 28 until September 3, 2017.