VSMC has been awarded a EUR 110 million contract by Dudgeon Offshore Wind Limited, owned by Norwegian companies Statoil and Statkraft, for the export and inter-array cabling for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm. VSMC will start in 2015 by performing two 1,100-metre horizontal directional drillings at
Statoil will increase the Oseberg Øst field recovery rate by means of a drilling campaign starting up in the summer of 2015. On Wednesday 2 July it was made public that Prosafe Offshore has been awarded a contract for the use of Safe Scandinavia in connection with this campaign. Support vessel Safe
More than 99 years after it was scuttled in the First World War, a project to record, preserve and tell the story of the wreck of Australian submarine AE2, laying at the bottom of Turkey’s Sea of Marmara, is underway. AE2 is one of the last untouched Gallipoli battlefield sites, and with the dedicat
Total, together with its partner DONG, has decided to launch the development of the Edradour gas field in the West of Shetland area, and has in addition acquired a 60% interest in the neighboring Glenlivet discovery. The tie backs of Edradour and Glenlivet to Laggan-Tormore are expected to add reser
From 11 March 2014 to 16 June 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of ConocoPhillips. The audit focused on the company’s preparations and plans for permanent plugging and abandonment of the wells at Ekofisk 2/4. The objective of the audit was to follow up the well-s
Working with Jumbo Offshore since January 2014, IKM Subsea now expands the partnership with Jumbo Offshore. IKM Subsea is contracted to deliver another Merlin WR200 WROVs in addition to the system already onboard. The contract includes personnel, project specific tooling, and survey service onboard
Tullow Oil plc has announced that the Hanssen wildcat well, in production licence 537, offshore Norway, has encountered a 20-25 metre oil bearing sandstone with good reservoir properties in the main target (Stø Formation). The Hanssen well was drilled about 7 kilometres northwest of the Wisting Cent
MHI Vestas has received an order for four V164 8MW offshore wind turbines, which will be installed at Velling Mærsk onshore wind project in Denmark. The company said that the onshore project will allow testing of installation methods and operations and maintenance procedures prior to the commencemen
Jumbo has recently decided to award Huisman a contract for the design and construction of a 2nd Deepwater Deployment System (DDS). This system will be integrated on Jumbo’s DP2 Heavy Lift Vessel (HLV) Jumbo Javelin. The integration is planned to be completed by the third quarter of 2015. With this i
SeaRoc Group, a specialist provider of marine and engineering services for offshore renewable energy projects, has successfully completed the first major maintenance visit to Forewind’s Dogger Bank meteorological (met) masts in the North Sea at the beginning of June. The East (DB-MME) and West (DB-M
SeaRoc Group, a specialist provider of marine and engineering services for offshore renewable energy projects, has successfully completed the first major maintenance visit to Forewind’s meteorological (met) masts in the North Sea at the beginning of June. The East (DB-MME) and West (DB-MMW) masts ha
ABB has commissioned the upgrade of the control and protection system of the Skagerrak 3 HVDC link between Norway and Denmark. The installation and commissioning time was only four weeks to minimize outage time. In addition to the system upgrade, the delivery included control of the bipolar configur
The sponson has been lifted off through the Conquest crane and is now being submerged. In the next hours it will be connected to the wreck. Following this installation, technicians will progress with the last of the 30 sponsons, P1. In the refloating phase, sponsons will be gradually emptied of ball
Polarcus Amani has mobilized for a 4,400 sq. km RIGHTBAND 3D multi-client survey in the Southern Porcupine basin, offshore Ireland. The multi-client project, being acquired in collaboration with ION GeoVentures and GeoPartners, will be the largest ever 3D multi-client seismic survey acquired offshor
