Operations & Maintenance
Company Providing Offshore Wind Staff Launched in Germany
A specialist company for the provision of personnel exclusively in the offshore wind industry has been launched in Oldenburg. Convent offshore GmbH yesterday said that it wants to set new standards in personnel service for the installation, repair and maintenance of offshore wind farms. The concept
TGS, Dolphin in Joint Seismic Shoot in Barents Sea
TGS has signed a joint venture agreement with Dolphin Geophysical to acquire 4,500 km2 3D multi-client seismic survey over the western part of the Hammerfest Basin in the Barents Sea. The survey will provide industry with broadband data over APA acreage not previously covered by modern MC 3D. Succes
OpenHydro nets USD 5 mln from Canada
OpenHydro Technology Canada will receive USD 5.173 mln (CAD 6.353 mln) for the Bay of Fundy Tidal Stream Project. The funding is provided though Sustainable Development Technology Canada’s (SDTC) SD Tech Fund. Through a joint venture, Cape Sharp Tidal formed by Emera and OpenHydro, the consortium ai
DONG: Gode Wind’s First Foundation in Place
DONG Energy informed that the first foundation has been successfully installed at the Gode Wind Offshore Wind Farm in the German North Sea. With this project, DONG Energy is building Germany’s biggest offshore wind farm 45km from the mainland and around 33km from the islands Juist and Norderney. Tri
Subsea 7 Installs Nautronix NASNet on Aasta Hansteen
Nautronix has reported that the NASNet array in Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen field is fully operational and awaiting first field construction. Last year Nautronix secured an order with Subsea 7 to supply 16 NASNet stations along with a wet-stored spare station and three additional MTrx beacons to provid
Bourbon Under Bribery Inspection
Bourbon SA has been placed under formal investigation following the arrest and investigation of its former tax manager under suspicion of bribery of foreign public officials. Namely, Bourbon’s former tax manager was arrested at the airport of Marseille-Provence while he was returning from Africa in
Island Constructor Cleared For Work on Shell’s Draugen
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) informed that AS Norske Shell has been given green light to use Island Constructor for activities at well 6407/09-A-555-H on the Draugen field. Draugen is an oil field in the Norwegian Sea in 250 metres of water. The field has been developed using a fixed
Swiber Wins USD133 Mln EPIC Gig in India
Swiber Holdings has secured a US$133 million contract, the third award in India in the last three months, for Engineering, Procurement, Installation and Construction (EPIC) services. The project by the same national oil company which awarded Swiber two major contracts in February and March, involves
Fugro Secures Borssele OWF Contract
Fugro has been hired by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, to execute the geotechnical site investigation and geological modelling of sites I and II of the future Borssele wind farm park. The 1,400MW wind farm zone is located off the Zealand coast at the sou
OpenHydro to deploy two 2 MW turbines in fall
OpenHydro is planning to deploy two 2 MW tidal turbines in the Bay of Fundy, Canada in Q3 2015. Through a joint venture, Cape Sharp Tidal, formed by Emera and OpenHydro, the company aims to deploy 4 MW grid connected tidal array that could power an estimated 1.000 homes in Nova Scotia, Canada. Accor
Carnegie, FCH Collaborate on Wave Energy Development in Chile
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited has signed a Collaboration Agreement with Fundación Chile (FCH) to collaborate on identifying a development pathway for commercial wave energy projects in Chile. Carnegie has signed a Collaboration Agreement with Fundación Chile to assess the potent
Bluestream Boosts ROV Fleet
Bluestream Offshore has ordered a fourth Saab Seaeye Panther XT Plus ROV to undertake tasks normally performed by hydraulic vehicles. “Our clients want high-spec equipment to take on more complex construction work at a lower cost,” says Bluestream’s managing director, Rolf de Vries. “For instance, w
SSCS Provides Mats for Bibby’s Pipeline Project
Norfolk-based, Seabed Scour Control Systems (SSCS), has supplied a quantity of Weighted Frond Mats to Bibby Offshore’s Singapore division for installation along one of the pipelines on the Yadana field in the Andaman Sea. The Mats, delivered on behalf of Total Myanmar, are meant to provide freespan
Saipem Awards Ichthys Subsea Contract to Kongsberg
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies (KONGSBERG) has been awarded a contract by Saipem for delivery of subsea structures for the gas export pipeline project of the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project. The Ichthys Field is located about 220 km offshore Western Australia and 820 km southwest of Darwin. The