Operations & Maintenance
Siem Offshore Contractors Sets Up UK Base in Scotland
Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (SOC) has opened an office in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, Scotland to serve as local project office and act as the focal point for the company’s UK market growth strategy. SOC will use the new office to carry out the contract for the turnkey supply and installation packag
Siem Offshore Contractors Sets Up UK Base in Scotland
Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (SOC) has opened an office in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, Scotland to serve as local project office and act as the focal point for the company’s UK market growth strategy. SOC will use the new office to carry out the contract for the turnkey supply and installation packag
Siem Offshore Contractors Selects JDR for Beatrice Inner Array Cables
Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC) has selected UK based JDR to design, manufacture and supply around 163km of 33kV inner array grid cables for the 588 MW Beatrice offshore wind farm. JDR will be manufacturing the submarine composite cables at its Hartlepool facility. These will be directly loaded out
Sabella treads towards bright 2016 ending
French tidal energy developer, Sabella, is expecting to wrap up the year 2016 with several projects moving forward to the next phase of development.
Transmission Capital Services Returns to CWind
Transmission assets owner and operator Transmission Capital Services (TCS) has chartered one of CWind’s crew transfer vessels (CTV) on a five-year contract to support works at several of their offshore substations in the United Kingdom. CWind is using one of its MPC19 resin infused composite catamar
Technip to Lay Off All Employees at Pori (Finland)
Technip Offshore Finland is reportedly sending home its entire workforce employed at construction yard in Pori. The manufacturing yard in Finland, lately responsible for delivery of a 23,000-ton truss spar hull for Anadarko’s Heidelberg field development in the US Gulf of Mexico, has experienced a s
Principle Power Dismantles WindFloat 1
Principle Power has announced the successful decommissioning of WindFloat 1, the company’s 2MW prototype that had been deployed off the Northern Coast of Portugal. The project, originally installed in 2011, was a full lifecycle demonstration of the features and benefits of the WindFloat floating off
STATS Group Delivers Subsea Isolation Project in China
Pipeline technology specialist STATS Group has completed its first subsea isolation project in China on a 780km pipeline supplying gas to Hong Kong. Aberdeenshire-based company was contracted by COOEC Subsea Technology to provide a temporary isolation of the Yacheng pipeline in the South China Sea.
Applied Acoustics’ Nexus USBL Boosts GOSL’s Ops
Geodetic Offshore Services Ltd (GOSL) has purchased two Applied Acoustics’ Nexus USBL positioning systems for its offshore projects including underwater installation, diver monitoring, seabed surveys and ROV operations. Emanuel Ekpeyong, managing director at GOSL, said: “The Nexus system has been mo
Lockheed Martin Sees Autonomous Robots in Combined Ops
Lockheed Martin has launched Vector Hawk, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), on command from the Marlin MK2 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) during a cross-domain command and control event hosted by the U.S. Navy. In addition to Marlin and Vector Hawk, the Submaran, an unmanned surface vehicle (US
Niras Readies for Gwynt y Môr Benthic Survey
Niras Consulting Ltd (Niras) will be undertaking a benthic drop down camera and Day grab survey for scientific monitoring purposes to the south, west and within the 576MW Gwynt y Môr wind farm site offshore Wales during October 2016, according to a notice to mariners. Niras will use the vessel Aquad
Niras Readies for Gwynt y Môr Benthic Survey
Niras Consulting Ltd (Niras) will be undertaking a benthic drop down camera and Day grab survey for scientific monitoring purposes to the south, west and within the 576MW Gwynt y Môr wind farm site offshore Wales during October 2016, according to a notice to mariners. Niras will use the vessel Aquad
Wave energy testing at Carderock nears conclusion
Wave energy converters testing is coming to a close with only two more developers left to test their 1:20 scale devices as part of US Department of Energy’s funded Wave Energy Prize challenge.
GM Deep Sea Mooring Bags Ivar Aasen Deal
Global Maritime Deep Sea Mooring has signed a contract with Det norske oljeselskap to support Prosafe’s semi-submersible Safe Zephyrus accommodation rig in the Ivar Aasen field in the North Sea. The contract also includes support to the Maersk Interceptor ultra-harsh environment jack-up rig. Deep Se