Operations & Maintenance
Tocardo to Deploy Turbines in Eastern Scheldt
Tocardo will install five tidal turbines in the Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier (Oosterschelde barrier) to generate clean energy. According to the company, this installation will be both the largest tidal energy project in the Netherlands as well as the world’s largest commercial tidal installat
Italy OKs Northern Petroleum EIAs
Northern Petroleum’s environmental impact assessments (EIA) for its three remaining exploration permit applications in the southern Adriatic have been approved. These approvals are in addition to the two EIA approvals for exploration permit applications announced by the company on June 10, 2015. The
Alcatel-Lucent to Upgrade Tiscali’s Network
Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Italy’s Tiscali to deploy a 100G terrestrial optical backbone infrastructure and upgrade existing submarine links. The new agile optical networking solution, using its 1830 Photonic Service Switch platform will allow Tiscali to increase both data capacity and data
Ardent-Ardentia Remove Oil from Sunken Oleg Naydenov
Ardent, the recent merger of Titan and Svitzer Salvage and Ardentia Marine, a salvage and diving company based in Spain have been awarded the contract to remove oil from the sunken fishing trawler “Oleg Naydenov” off the coast of Gran Canaria, Spain. On the 11th of April, the vessel sustained a fire
Uptime Engineering Sets Up UK Base
Due to growing demand for wind energy optimisation projects in the UK, Uptime Engineering has established a new base in Bristol, led by Staffan Lindahl. Lindahl has been working in the wind industry for nearly 10 years in the field of performance analysis and asset optimisation. He will coordinate p
JBA Consulting assists Swansea tidal
JBA Consulting, an environmental engineering company, is supporting Tidal Lagoon Power in the development of Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project. JBA Consulting is supporting the project in the preparation of evidence for the discharge of the environmental Development Consent Order (DCO) and Marine Lic
PSA Orders Oseberg B and Gullfaks C BOP Checkup
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has issued an order to Statoil following audits at Oseberg B and Gullfaks C. Namely, between November 10, 2014 and January 29, 2015, the PSA conducted audits at Oseberg B and Gullfaks C. The audits followed up and verified the auditing performed in 2013 re
Acta Marine’s Coastal Chariot to install BlueTec tidal platform
Coastal Chariot multi-purpose support vessel will be used for the installation of BlueTec floating tidal platform off Texel island, the Netherlands. According to Acta Marine, the company has coincided the installation process with Van Oord Offshore. The Coastal Chariot will tow and hook-up BlueTec t
WATCH: Normand Vision Gears for Troll B Gig
The following video shows a Norwegian subsea contractor, Ocean Installer, mobilising its vessel Normand Vision for riser replacement job at the Troll B platform June 2015. In March this year, Ocean Installer signed amendments with Statoil for umbilical marine installation at the Visund field and for
MMT in UK-Iceland Link Route Survey
MMT (Sweden) has been awarded a contract for the world’s longest HVDC route survey for the UK-Iceland Interconnector by Atlantic Superconnection Corporation (ASC). MMT will provide bathymetric and geophysical mapping along the entire route corridor, between Iceland to England, the company said. MMT
Statoil Gets Nod for Subsea Production at Gullfaks Sør
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Statoil consent to use pipelines and subsea production facilities at Gullfaks Sør. Gullfaks Sør is located to the south of Gullfaks in the northern part of the North Sea. It has been developed with a total of 12 subsea templates tied back to the
Ezra Scores $115 Mln in Subsea Deals
Ezra’s subsea division, EMAS AMC, has clinched several global contracts, including one for rigid pipelay on the Aviat field development in the UK North Sea, under the auspices of the frame agreement the company signed with Apache in the North Sea, bringing the total contract value to more than US$11
Providence: Ruadhan Seismic Shows Paleocene Potential in FEL 1/14
Providence Resources announced that Capricorn Ireland Limited has recently completed an initial assessment of the Paleocene within FEL 1/14 using the newly-acquired 2014 Ruadhan (previously referred to as “Spanish Point South”) 3D seismic survey. This interpretation has demonstrated the presence of
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (June 08 – June 14). Three more tendons on the Chevron’s Big Foot tension-leg platform (TLP) have sunk, causing an indefinite delay to the start of the project. As Reuters reports, nine of sixteen tend