Blue Offshore, a specialist subsea construction contractor, have announced that they have reached agreement to use the former Swan Hunter shipyard facilities at Wallsend, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK), for assembly and construction of their cable installation system. Blue Offshore will operate the facili
The Visund North investment decision means that the fast-track developments around the Visund field in the North Sea are a step nearer completion. It was decided in autumn 2010 to fast track the development of Visund North with production start-up scheduled for autumn 2013. The partners have now rea
Barnstaple and Aberdeen based J+S Limited has reported record results for the year ended 30 September 2011. Sales were up 27.7% on the prior year to just under £13.3m and operating profit increased by a massive 41% to just under £1.5m. Both the sales and the operating profit hit record levels. Comme
E. ON contracted Fugro Consult GmbH to run a geotechnical exploration for offshore wind farm “Arkona-Becken Südost”, which E.ON is planning in the Baltic Sea. Work which took place in the summer and early fall of this year , has now been completed in water depths of approximately 22 to 37 m. Fugro u
UK-based specialist pipe measurement technology company Optical Metrology Services (OMS) Ltd has successfully completed an on-site internal… SubseaUK [mappress] Source: SubseaUK , December 02, 2011; Image: OMS
Emerald Networks, Inc., a subsea cable system owner/operator that provides low latency transatlantic capacity to the wholesale market, announces that the Group is to install, for completion by the Spring of 2013, the highest capacity, low latency, transatlantic submarine cable system in order to mee
Mitsubishi Corporation , through its wholly owned special purpose company and its UK based subsidiary, has acquired a 50% share of the Walney 1 offshore transmission assets. The acquisition was made from Macquarie Capital Group Limited (UK Branch) , and represents the first time for a Japanese compa
MMT has been contracted by Nexans Norway AS to carry out a pre-engineering marine survey of an 80 m wide corridor between Qalet Marku in Malta and Marina di Ragusa in Sicily. The survey operation will be conducted by MMT survey vessel Franklin, (length 56 meters). M/V Franklin is fully equipped to p
As the chase for oil and gas moves further north, the oil services industry follows. Today Aker Solutions announces plans to establish a large engineering office in Tromsø as part of the company’s northern Norway strategy. The new office will gather knowledge and expertise related to the northern re
Russian based oil and gas corporation Rosneft plans to begin a 3D seismic survey in the southern part of the Barents Sea in summer season 2012, said Rosneft head Eduard Khudainatov. “Next year we’ll commence seismic survey. In May, the ship should be there, in July or August, maybe we’ll start”, RIA
The planned construction of offshore wind power parks in the North Sea and Baltic Sea can only prosper if specialist port services providers, suppliers and manufacturers work together closely and if the public sector provides the necessary financial support. That was the conclusion reached at the Rh
SeaBird announces following results for third quarter of 2011: HIGHLIGHTS · The Ocean Bottom Node (“OBN”) survey with Hugin Explorer and Munin Explorer was successfully completed on 16 August, followed by the pilot survey for ExxonMobil E&P Norway in the Norwegian North Sea. Upon completion, the ves
Offshore Marine Services, the German arm of UK-based Offshore Marine Management, has successfully completed its first cable storage task for the consortium Siemens Energy and Prysmian Powerlink, the companies responsible for the BorWin 2 and HelWin 1 export cable systems including Offshore Sub Stati
Sonardyne announces the acquisition of MARSS Ltd, a high technology marine company with operations in the UK, Monaco and Italy. The Company is run by founder Johannes Pinl and supported by the European Union security directive. MARSS has led a pan-European team of research and military institutes, l
