Operations & Maintenance
McDermott Gets Pipeline Work from Shell Off Brunei
McDermott International has been awarded further pipeline work for 2017 under a multi-year offshore installation contract with Brunei Shell Petroleum Company (BSP). The work includes transportation and installation of pipelines and umbilicals in the Fairley and Ampa fields offshore Brunei. The full
Cape Sharp Tidal clear for deployment
The proposed monitoring program for the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) and Cape Sharp Tidal has been approved by Nova Scotia Department of Environment.
AgileTek Wraps Up Walney Extension Subsea Power Cable Study
London based AgileTek has completed a multi-phase study on subsea power cables for the Walney Extension offshore wind farm. The 660MW wind farm is located in the Irish Sea, around 19 km west of the Walney Island coast in Cumbria. Working directly with project developer DONG Energy, the study involve
DONG Building Burbo Bank O&M Base in Merseyside
DONG Energy will build a new operations and maintenance (O&M) facility in Kings Wharf, Seacombe, Merseyside, to serve the existing 90MW Burbo Bank offshore wind farm and the new 258MW Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm, currently under construction. The facility will consist of a new office and
Ezra Bags USD 300M Worth of Contracts
Ezra has received the awards for several new deepwater projects from international oil majors valued at approximately USD 300 million. The awards will be executed in various offshore regions in the Gulf of Mexico, Southeast Asia and West Africa. Furthermore, the awards include Ezra’s largest project
DOF Subsea and Technip Win Petrobras Contract
DOF Subsea and Technip joint venture has secured a contract with Brazilian oil major Petrobras for the vessel Skandi Niterói. The Skandi Niteroi is designed for pipelay, subsea construction, installation and maintenance work and can operate in up to 2,300 meters water depths. According DOF, the cont
Search Teams Find EgyptAir MS804 Black Boxes
Search teams have found and retrieved black box recorders of the EgyptAir flight MS804. According to Reuters, the cockpit voice recorder was retreived on Thursday following an extensive serch in the Mediterranean Sea, where the airplane crashed. The Airbus A320 crashed en route from Paris to Cairo o
Shoreline Improves Its Offshore Wind O&M Software
Shoreline has made Balance of Plant (BoP) O&M modelling available within its MAINSYS™ tool, which includes foundations, inter array cabling, and substations. The tool allows choosing and placing BoP components and model failure, their service and associated cost, as well as defining interdependencie
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (June 13 – June 19). Ezra Holdings, Chiyoda Corporation and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) have entered into a binding agreement for NYK to invest in EMAS CHIYODA Subsea (ECS), which is currently
Hilong to Install MDA-MBH Fields Jackets Off Indonesia
Hilong Petroleum Offshore Engineering has won a contract from TIMAS to provide a “Hilong 106”pipe-laying derrick barge to install jackets for the HCML Madura MDA – MBH offshore gas field development project jointly funded by China National Offshore Oil Corporation and Husky. This is Hilong’s first o
VBMS Wraps Up Sandbank OWF Cable Installation Project
VBMS has completed cable installation and post-lay burial for Vattenfall’s Sandbank offshore wind farm. A total of 76 inter-array cables were installed and post-lay buried within a limited time frame of approximately two and a half months. VBMS deployed its multipurpose vessels Ndurance and Ndeavor
Bard Offshore 1 Clocks Up 3 TWh of Generated Power
Bard Offshore 1 marked another first for German offshore wind farms after recently generating 3 TWh of electricity since first starting to produce power in 2013. The wind farm has generated 1 TWh of electricity since November 2015, when Ocean Breeze Energy announced the wind farm reaching the 2 TWh
EC OKs Boskalis’ Acquisition of VolkerWessels’ Offshore Businesses
The European Commission has approved the acquisition of VolkerWessels Offshore by Boskalis. The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would raise no competition concerns, because it would not significantly change the market structure. A Letter of Intent (LoI) to acquire offshore activit
NOF Energy diversifies into tidal, wave sectors
NOF Energy, a UK-based business development organisation, has expanded its services to new energy sectors including tidal and wave.