Gazprom has started laying the TurkStream gas pipeline in the deep-water area off the coast of Anapa. The operations were launched with the command given by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to the Pioneering Spirit pipe-laying vessel. Vladimir Putin and Alexey Miller, chairman of th
DOF Subsea has been awarded a subsea oil field support project offshore Newfoundland for a Canadian operator. The contract award follows another win in Canada this month for the multipurpose vessel Skandi Chieftain hired for a 5-month campaign. For this new project the ROV construction support vesse
Canadian developer of hydrokinetic systems for tidal and inland applications Instream Energy Systems has named Joe Hussey as its Engineering Manager for the UK.
GE Oil & Gas has signed a long-term agreement to collaborate with Eni East Africa (EEA), on the offshore Mozambique developments it operates. The agreement comprises a multi-year contract to supply subsea production systems, ancillary equipment and services. It covers the Coral South FLNG project an
Prysmian said it has secured a series of addition work with Terna Rete Italia — originally included as option — to be added to the Venetian Lagoon submarine power cable links project. The initial €34 million contract for two 14 km and 6 km long high voltage alternate current (HVAC) 132 kV cable link
Seatronics, a marine electronic equipment specialist in subsea services group Acteon, has supplied subsea equipment to an undisclosed oilfield services provider for a project in Brazil. The equipment sale included ROV Survey sensors, which were interfaced to Seatronics RTS Gen5 MUX ROV multiplexer.
The topside for the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 unmanned wellhead platform sailed out from Heerema Fabrication Group’s yard in Zwijndrecht, The Nederlands, on Sunday June 25. The jacket followed on Monday June 26. In February 2016, Statoil awarded Heerema the contract for the engineering, procurement & co
SeaBird Exploration has signed an agreement to provide a source vessel for an upcoming survey in South America. The project is anticipated to start during Q3, SeaBird informed. The project will have a duration of approximately 60 days. SeaBird will be using the Osprey Explorer for the project. Ospre
Polarcus has received an award for a 3D project offshore West Africa with a duration of one month. The project is scheduled to start early in Q4 2017, the company informed. The Polarcus XArray methodology will be utilized to optimize both data quality and acquisition efficiency. Richard Price, senio
Marine contractor Briggs Marine has invested more than £1 million into its subsea services division over recent months. The company said it has enhanced its subsea cable repair and installation capabilities with the addition of two new 15Te tracked cable tensioners. The tensioners were employed imme
EEL Energy has unveiled plans to test its scaled tidal energy prototype off the coast of Brest in France.
DOF Subsea has recently signed a new contract in the Mediterranean with Transmediterranean Pipeline Company (TMPC) to undertake the pipeline inspection on the TMPC’s pipeline system. The inspection is planned to take place in Q3, 2017, the company informed. The scope involves inspection of 5 submari
Researchers from the Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP) plan to recover a mooring with monitoring equipment which has been collecting data for the ongoing hydrokinetic energy study.
Seabed Geosolutions has been awarded a 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in the Santos Basin in Brazil. Seabed Geosolutions’ new Manta node system will be used for the survey. The seven month contract is valued at around $90 million and is scheduled to start at the end of the fourth quarter of 2017
