Aberdeen-based Canyon Offshore has been awarded a contract for the provision of offshore cable trenching services on the North Sea Link Interconnector. The 1.400MW subsea HVDC system with cables linking the UK and Norway when complete will be the world’s longest submarine interconnector. The multi-m
Ship repair and marine specialist A&P Group has named two managers to deliver its new strategic partnership with Peel Ports Group in Great Yarmouth.
The Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project’s floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility–Ichthys Venturer–safely sailed away yesterday evening from waters near its construction site in Okpo, South Korea en route to Australia. This follows the completion of commissioning and preparation w
Naval Energies will officially launch the construction of a purpose-built tidal turbine assembly facility at Cherbourg Port in two days.
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) is continuing to make more and more data openly available in an effort to help revitalise exploration of oil and gas in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). The latest data release follows the publication of a suite of subsurface data packages in June related to undevelop
Kongsberg Maritime has received the first order for K-MATE, its latest marine robotics innovation. K-MATE, an autonomous surface vehicle control system, will be integrated with SEA-KIT, a new class of Maritime Autonomous Surface Vessel being built by UK manufacturer, Hushcraft. SEA-KIT is an USV tha
Naval Energies has retrieved the second tidal turbine that was deployed off Brittany in France as part of Paimpol-Bréhat tidal array demonstration project.
The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) and the Diving Medical Advisory Committee (DMAC) are staging a two-day IMCA Diving Seminar and DMAC Workshop in London on September 25-26, 2017 that should present a number of topics of interest to the global offshore diving community. The even
Seaway Heavy Lifting has selected BASF, as part of the grouting subcontract with FoundOcean, for the supply of MasterFlow 9800 to the Beatrice offshore wind farm project. The grout will be installed by BASF’s licensed contractor FoundOcean. MasterFlow 9800 grout was mainly chosen for the grouting of
Norske Shell has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway for the use of riserless light well intervention (RLWI) vessel, Island Constructor, for the start-up of well 6407/9-G-5 on the Draugen field. Draugen is an oil field in the Norwegian Sea in 250 metres of water, around
UK-based company Rovco will carry out subsea cable system survey of the offshore renewable energy test site Wave Hub. The purpose of the project, scheduled to start July 25, is to inspect the Wave Hub subsea cable system with multibeam echo-sounder bathymetry and ROV visual survey. The survey works
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has submitted the field development plan (FDP) to the UK Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) for the Blythe Hub, which comprises the Blythe and Elgood fields. This follows on from IOG’s submission of a draft FDP for only the Blythe field in December 2016. The Blythe and Elgood
AGR has signed a SaaS (software as a service) contract with Dana Gas PJSC to supply its latest version of P1 software. AGR’s P1 software is said to help improve the accuracy of well time and cost modeling and can be applied for all drilling and well related operations, including completions and inte
Subsea excavation specialist James Fisher Subsea Excavation (JFSE) has introduced centrally-located jetting systems to its mass/controlled flow excavation (M/CFE) equipment spreads. According to the company, the water jet, designed, developed and patented by JFSE, facilitates the excavation of soils
