Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has reported a successful start to a 10-week boulder clearing and trenching campaign on the Baltic 2 offshore wind farm project. Mobilised onboard the Siem Topaz anchor handling vessel, Ecosse Subsea’s SCAR subsea plough system is engaged on route clearing and pre-lay tre
The Oyster wave energy device, developed by Aquamarine Power, has returned to the right track having met various development challenges on the way and “will get there” after achieving an uninterrupted 24 hours of electricity generation, 18 months after installation in the Pentland Firth, the Herald
Federal Research Minister Johanna Wanka, together with representatives of the State of Lower Saxony and the Meyer shipyard, held the keel laying of the new deep-sea research vessel SONNE. The first section of the 116 meter long ship was launched in the dock. The ship will be handed over in January 2
Sevan Marine announces that “first oil” and production from FPSO Voyageur Spirit at the Huntington oil and gas field in the Central North Sea has successfully started. Following a 72 hours continuous production testing, title to the FPSO Voyageur is expected to be transferred to Voyageur LLC (a subs
Statens vegvesen is seeking for a contractor to conduct underwater inspection services in Norway. The work consists of diving inspection on a total of 53 quays in the county and 49 selected bridges. The report shall be prepared for each quay and bridge with a proposal to repair any damage. The start
50Hertz Offshore GmbH has invited tenders for the provision of underwater ordnance identification services offshore Germany. The project includes extensive tracking to identify anomalies in the ferromagnetic area of the planned subsea cable routes from landfall in Lubmin the priority area for wind e
As DEME is moving forward with the construction of two Belgian wind farms, GeoSea has secured two new contracts: Westermost Rough in the UK and Borkum Riffgrund 1 in Germany. A new contract secured in the United Kingdom (UK) concerns a job for the Danish company DONG Energy, the largest operator of
The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport has been advised that a hydrographic and geophysical survey operation is currently being undertaken by INFOMAR1 for the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) off the Clare coast. The survey operaton started on 6th April and will continue throug
Bibby Remote Intervention Limited (BRIL) has successfully secured a contract with the potential of a seven year commitment. Centrica Energy has awarded a three year contract with two, two year extension options, worth up to £40million. It is the largest Inspection, Repair & Maintenance (IRM) contrac
Aker Solutions has won a contract to provide hook-up, commissioning and facility management services to Premier Oil at the operator’s Solan field development, west of Shetland. The hook-up project will see two subsea production and two subsea injection wells tied back to a fixed production platform
Fastnet Oil & Gas plc the E&P company focused on near term exploration acreage in Morocco and the Celtic Sea, announced that an independent assessment of the Company’s prospective resources on licensing option 12/5 (“Shanagarry” or the “Licensing Option”) has been completed by SLR Consulting. Fastne
Tidal Lagoon (Swansea Bay) Plc has launched a £10m investment offering, providing private investors with a tax efficient opportunity to back the development of the UK’s largest tidal range power project based in Swansea Bay. A further local community share offering will be launched within the next f
EnerMech’s continuing success has been further boosted with an additional £20 million funding from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking in Aberdeen. The latest tranche of funding will support EnerMech’s organic growth initiatives and will also assist in funding a number of acquisitions the Aberdeen mechan
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