Orcades Marine Management Consultants Ltd has entered into a long term relationship with Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) Ltd to provide Marine Operations and Risk Management support for the deploymeNt of their PLAT-O tidal turbine platform. Their first prototype is being tested in tidal waters off Y
JDR has signed a contract with Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH for the Nordsee One offshore wind farm as currently being developed by RWE Innogy GmbH and forming part of Germany’s largest offshore wind farm cluster. JDR will provide over 70 kilometres of aluminium core inter-array cable, cable access
Norfolk Marine Ltd has opened a new Operations Base in the Port of Lowestoft, the new facility comprises an Office Complex adjacent to Storage and Workshop buildings with an open yard of 2500m2 and 96m of Quay Front. The company’s vessels have operated from the Port for the past three years and as L
Greater Manchester-based Roxtec is reporting a 45 per cent growth from its UK operation with sales hitting £5m, representing a four-fold increase in sales over the past eight years. The UK subsidiary of a Swedish based firm, said recent work on North Sea platforms, petrochemicals, renewable energy a
Umoe Wind AS, which owns the first Wave Craft vessel currently under construction at Umoe Mandal AS, has entered into an 8-month contract with DONG Energy on July 17, which would begin in March 2015. The charter includes a possible extension of up to 12 months. The vessel will be operating on the Bo
Statoil has received consent for exploration drilling using the Transocean Spitsbergen semi-submersible drilling rig to drill well 7319/12-1 Pingvin in production licence 713, in the Barents Sea. The well is in the Barents Sea, around 296 km from Hammerfest. Water depth at the site is approx. 422 me
The engineering and services group Bilfinger has won an order for the installation of a total of 72 foundations for the new Sandbank Offshore Windpark. Sandbank is a joint partnership of Vattenfall (51 percent) and the city of Munich’s public utility company (49 percent). The foundation elements wil
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has brought together eight of the industry’s major owner/operators to improve performance in operating and maintaining offshore wind farms. It is a move aimed at driving the industry a considerable way towards the goal of £100/MWh for energy generated fro
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has brought together eight of the industry’s major owner/operators to improve performance in operating and maintaining offshore wind farms. It is a move aimed at driving the industry a considerable way towards the goal of £100/MWh for energy generated fro
Providence Resources P.l.c., the Irish oil and gas exploration and appraisal company, has announced that 3D seismic surveying operations have started on Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 1/14 (‘Spanish Point South’) in the northern Porcupine Basin, offshore west of Ireland. The water depth across t
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) realized a net profit of EUR 253 million in the first half of 2014 (H1 2013: EUR 123 million). Revenue rose 21% in the first half of the year to EUR 1.5 billion (H1 2013: EUR 1.3 billion). Organic revenue growth was 13.4%. EBITDA amounted to EUR 466 million
Dolphin has been awarded a contract extension of approximately 50 days on an ongoing 3D seismic project in South America. Andy Phipps, President Dolphin Western Hemisphere, commented: “We are very pleased that, our good performance in South America this year is providing us with additional opportuni
Zenith Energy, an Aberdeen-based well company, has agreed a three-year non-exclusive deal with London based, Tullow Oil. Zenith Energy will provide a variety of well engineering services for Tullow Oil on an ad-hoc basis. Tullow Oil has over 140 exploration and production licences across 24 countrie
Subsea 7’s Autonomous Inspection Vehicle (AIV) has successfully completed its first test mission in the UK North Sea for Royal Dutch Shell plc. (Shell). A series of field trials were undertaken from Subsea 7 vessel the Normand Subsea for the company’s proprietary AIV technology in July. Graham Sharl
