Operations & Maintenance
VIDEO: VBMS in Luchterduinen OWF Export Cable Setup
In October 2014, VBMS installed the export cable for the Eneco Luchterduinen Offshore Wind Farm, executed by the CLV Ndurance and the Trenchformer. The multi-purpose trencher, developed and built by VBMS and Boskalis, used its jetting sword to bury the cable 3 metres deep near shore. This video show
Prysmian Plans Expansion in Romania
Prysmian Group has announced new development plans to strengthen its operations in Romania, as a further step of the investment plan started in 2013 with the opening of a newly built optical cable plant in Slatina. The announcement of a Memorandum of Understanding to study a submarine connection bet
Bourbon 2014 Revenues Up 6.7%
French vessel owner and offshore services provider, Bourbon, has posted an increase in fourth quarter 2014 (Q4) adjusted revenues and a 6.7% rise in full year adjusted revenues despite the harsher market towards the year end. The company generated a total of €1,385 million in full year adjusted reve
Reach, MMT Complete Surveyor Interceptor ROV Tests
Reach Subsea and MMT Sweden have recently finalized successful offshore tests on the new Surveyor Interceptor ROV from the vessel Edda Fonn. Sea trials with the new SROV have been performed to collect background data for a specialized handling system, to test speed, maneuverability, stability, cable
Vattenfall Requires Painting Work at DanTysk
Vattenfall is looking for a contractor who will carry out paint repair works on transition pieces (TPs) of DanTysk offshore wind turbines. The work includes surface preparation and painting of all the damaged areas on each of the foundation structures (TPs). Also, the contractor shall deliver the re
TAP Brings in New Directors
Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) has strengthened its project management team, hiring Norman Ingram as Project Director and Martin Mair as Operations Director. Both positions are located at TAP’s Headquarter offices in Baar, Switzerland. Norman Ingram joins TAP from BG Group in Queensland, Australia
Magseis Bags Red Sea Survey
Norwegian ocean-bottom seismic specialist, Magseis, has secured a deal with BGP Arabia Co. Ltd for a pilot survey for the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco). According to Magseis, the survey will be conducted in the Red Sea and should last until the end of February. This is the company’s secon
Shell Prepares for Brent Delta Decommissioning
A thirty day public consultation on plans to begin decommissioning of the Brent oil and gas field in the North Sea will start mid-February. The field has produced around 10% of all UK North Sea oil and gas and generated more than £20bn of tax revenue for the UK since production began in 1976. The de
Alewijnse in ‘Nexus’ Electrical Setup
The new cable-laying vessel ‘Nexus’, built by Damen Shipyards Group for a Dutch offshore contractor Van Oord, is getting its final touches by marine technology provider Alewijnse Marine Systems. Namely, according to Alewijnse, the Nexus is now in Flushing, where the company is currently working on t
VBMS On Track with Guernsey Subsea Cable Fix
Guernsey Electricity’s project to pre-emptively repair the undersea cable linking Guernsey and Jersey (GJ1) is underway and running according to schedule. The repair, on a section of cable some 500 metres from Les Terres Point, is scheduled to take around three to four weeks, finishing in mid to lat
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (January 26 – February 01). The subsea firm DeepOcean UK has confirmed it is entering into a statutory period of redundancy consultation with a number of its UK staff, based in its operations in the No
Scientists Study Potential Impacts of Deep-Sea Mining
50 specialists in deep-sea ecology, marine mining and deep-sea observation from 25 European research institutions met this week at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel to start the three-year research project “JPI Oceans Ecological aspects of deep-sea mining”. It aims at investigating
MMT Carries Out Cable Crossings Survey for Kraftnät Åland
As part of the preparations for the cable laying campaign MMT has completed a cable crossings survey for Kraftnät Åland. The planned submarine cable is 152 km long, and will be laid from Naantali, Finland to Juvik, Åland. The survey was planned based on a desktop survey done by MMT during the summer
SMD Assembles Nautilus’ Collecting Machine
Nautilus Minerals has announced that the mechanical and hydraulic assembly of its second of three Seafloor Production Tools (SPTs), the Collecting Machine, has been completed at Soil Machine Dynamics’ facility at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and the commissioning of the Collecting Machine systems has now