Inverness Graham Investments, a private investment firm based in Philadelphia, has trough its recreational safety education portfolio company, Kalkomey Enterprises, invested in the RAID Scuba Diver Training agency. “We’ve been carefully researching the options to enter the scuba market for some time
Following three successful cable loadouts, Oceanteam Solutions, in cooperation with Blue Offshore, are set for another loadout starting this Friday. Oceanteam and Blue Offshore are lining up a professional cable handling crew to assist the client during the loadout. The entire spread, a barge equipp
New research shows the first observed reduction in lead concentrations in the surface waters of the seas around Europe since the phasing out of leaded petrol. Lead has no biological function, and is toxic to humans and marine organisms. The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, is based
Smulders loaded its 1,500th transition piece at the yard in Hoboken, Belgium, on Wednesday, 18 April, which is destined for the Hohe See offshore wind farm.
BP and Reliance have sanctioned the ‘Satellite cluster’ project in Block KG D6. The companies are moving forward to develop the Block’s discovered deep-water gas fields in an integrated series of projects, bringing new gas production for India. The ‘Satellite cluster’ is the second of three projects
Vroon’s crew transfer vessel (CTV) MPI Napoleon has secured a charter in the German sector of the Baltic Sea.
Vroon’s crew transfer vessel (CTV) MPI Napoleon has secured a charter in the German sector of the Baltic Sea.
Van Oord’s cable-laying vessel Nexus has started the installation of cables at Ørsted’s offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 2, in the German North Sea. A total of 110 kilometers of cable will be laid in the wind farm to later connect the 56 wind turbines with the offshore substation. Furthermore, a
A tech start-up Synaptec has developed a new distributed instrumentation technology, which reportedly reduces operating costs for offshore renewables operators by automating the response to subsea power cable faults. The first product based on this new technology is named ‘Refase’ and was designed t
Fibre rope manufacturers Lankhorst Ropes and Phillystran, both WireCo WorldGroup companies, have signed an exclusive strategic supply agreement with Precision Tension Solutions (PTS) in Houston, Texas. Under the agreement, PTS will supply project engineered ropes to the offshore construction, subsea
Tullow Oil has received a data set of the recently acquired 2,550 square kilometers of 3D seismic on the company’s Orinduik Block, offshore Guyana. Tullow is the operator of the block with the 60% stake, while Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas holds the remaining 40%. The data set, delivered by PGS Geophysic
Pipetech, the independent process system integrity specialist, has launched a new ‘Active Caisson Management’ service following a number of recent projects with North Sea operators. Caissons are prone to damage from fatigue and erosion, which can lead to defects and wall failure resulting in a knock
James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS) has been appointed by London Array to deliver Balance of Plant (BoP) Operations and Maintenance (O&M) services covering the wind farm’s next five years of operation.
Tideway has laid the first offshore export cable section at 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm owned by Ørsted. The wind farm will be located 120km off the Yorkshire Coast, and three high voltage subsea power cables will carry electricity from three offshore substations to shore. Tideway i
