Operations & Maintenance
Akastor in Joint Venture with Mitsui
Akastor, an oil service investment company, has signed a heads of agreement with Japanese company Mitsui, to create a joint venture with 50/50 ownership between (AKOFS) and Mitsui. The joint venture will acquire both the Skandi Santos hull from DOF Subsea Rederi AS and the Skandi Santos topside from
RMS Supports Next Geosolutions’ Baltic Campaign
Next Geosolutions’ 17-month marine survey project for cable route design and engineering in the western Baltic Sea, has been supported by RMS Submarine. The project consists of multiple 220 kV AC grid connections of the two offshore wind parks Arkona Basin South-East and Wikinger. Next Geosolutions’
FMC Technologies and Aker Solutions Line Up More Layoffs
American provider of equipment and services for the energy industry, FMC Technologies, and Norwegian oil services company, Aker Solutions, are planning additional workforce reductions, both at their subsea services businesses at Ågotnes, Norway. FMC Technologies is reportedly letting go up to 200 wo
Strainstall Wins Hywind Mooring Monitoring Contract
Strainstall, a monitoring solutions developer and part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has been awarded a contract to provide mooring monitoring for the 30MW Hywind pilot park – the world’s first floating offshore wind farm being developed by Statoil off the coast of Peterhead, Scotland. The site will
Strainstall Wins Hywind Mooring Monitoring Contract
Strainstall, a monitoring solutions developer and part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has been awarded a contract to provide mooring monitoring for the 30MW Hywind pilot park – the world’s first floating offshore wind farm being developed by Statoil off the coast of Peterhead, Scotland. The site will
WATCH: DEME Splashes ‘Living Stone’
Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group DEME, has launched its newest DP3 multipurpose vessel ‘Living Stone’, built by the Spanish shipyard LaNaval near Bilbao, Spain. The launching ceremony was carried out by Sarah Tommelein, spouse of Bart Tommelein, vice-minister-president of
Deutsche Offshore Consult Stays at Bard Offshore 1
Deutsche Offshore Consult (DOC) has won a follow-up contract to manage vessels used by the German wind farm operator Ocean Breeze Energy (OBE) on the 400MW Bard Offshore 1 wind farm from 2016 until 2017. Following a selection process for the operation & maintenance campaigns in 2016/2017, OBE and DO
Flexlife and Deep Water Concession Form Nigeria Partnership
Flexlife and Deep Water Concession of Nigeria have formalised their relationship by signing an exclusive cooperation agreement to work with each other in Nigeria. The two companies have been working together on a number of projects on a non-exclusive basis for the past two years. Deep Water Concessi
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (September 12 – September 18). Aker Solutions, Det norske oljeselskap and Subsea 7 agreed on a so-called “one for all, all for one” collaboration model that should, as the companies believe, mark a maj
NordLink Construction Kicks Off with Groundbreaking Ceremony
The project partners TenneT, Statnett and KfW (represented by KfW IPEX-Bank) have carried out the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the German converter station for the NordLink subsea cable project and a symbolic cable pulling. The ceremony was performed together with the Schleswig-Ho
DEME’s Neptune shows up for duty on MeyGen
The jack-up vessel Neptune, operated by DEME Group’s subsidiary GeoSea, has arrived to Nigg Energy Park to begin with the offshore installation operations as part of MeyGen tidal array project.
Maersk Supply Service Scores North Sea Decom Work
Maersk Supply Service has been awarded a contract to provide decommissioning services for the Janice subsea field in the North Sea for Maersk Oil UK. Maersk Supply Service will assume responsibility for engineering, project planning and managing the scope of the subsea decommissioning. “With the awa
Aker Solutions in Troll B Win
Aker Solutions has secured a contract from Statoil to deliver a compression module for the Troll field in the North Sea to help boost output at one of Norway’s key offshore fields. The contract is valued at NOK 370 million and is an option in a front end engineering and design (FEED) agreement award
Red Marine’s Clamp Handling System for Well Intervention Contractor
Red Marine has delivered a subsea clamp handling system to a US-based provider of subsea riserless light well intervention services. The company delivered the fast-track project in eight weeks from initial consultation through to commissioning of the clamp handling system. With a working load limit