Operations & Maintenance
North Sea Systems Wraps Up CableFish Tests
North Sea Systems has completed EMEC trials of their CableFish survey system for touchdown monitoring and cable route survey. According to North Sea Systems, CableFish will offer a survey capability that enables cable laying operations to be extended in tides up to 6 knots in strength – currents in
Hydrex Performs Underwater Insert Repairs
Hydrex diver/technician teams carried out underwater insert repairs in Marseille and Togo. One of the repairs was performed on a general cargo vessel while it was berthed in Marseille. An inspection performed shortly after arrival at the location indicated that an insert of 800 mm x 400 mm was neede
Ashtead Tech Names Global Sales Manager
Ashtead Technology has appointed Kevin Murray-Taylor as global product sales manager. Based in Aberdeen, Murray-Taylor is responsible for product sales within Ashtead, providing a central focus for both customers and the regional sales teams in Aberdeen, London, Houston and Singapore. Formerly regio
BW Offshore Gets FPSO Umuroa Extension
Oslo-listed provider of floating production services to the oil and gas industry, BW Offshore, has received a one year contract extension for the lease and operation of the FPSO Umuroa. The FPSO is operating on the Umuroa field offshore New Zealand for the Australian based oil and gas exploration an
MENCK World’s Largest Hammer for Sandbank Subsea Ops
Subsea pile driving specialist MENCK, an Acteon company, is providing the largest and most powerful hydraulic hammer in the world to assist Bilfinger Marine & Offshore Systems with the installation of sub-sea foundations for Project Sandbank, a new 72 turbine strong wind farm in the North Sea. Known
FMDS Supports Offshore Installation in Liverpool Bay
Fendercare Marine Diving Services (FMDS) has been contracted to provide significant diving services and equipment for an offshore installation in Liverpool Bay, UK. The Liverpool Bay Development comprises four oil and gas fields, together with significant offshore and onshore facilities used for ext
VIDEO: IHC Splashes Subsea 7’s SEVEN SUN
Royal IHC launched Subsea 7’s latest pipelay vessel SEVEN SUN, on friday 19th december 2014 at its shipyard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. Seven Sun is the third of four vessels Subsea 7 has ordered to operate for Petrobras offshore Brazil. In August last year, IHC announced the orders from Subsea
First Subsea Secures GROW Funding
First Subsea has been awarded £130,000 of Process Technology Innovation Funding under the Government’s GROW: Offshore Wind programme. The award is for development of a monopile interface connector and hang off cable connector for offshore wind farms and top tension mooring connector for floating win
Hibernia Networks Brings Express Link to Ireland
Hibernia Networks will land a direct connection of its Express cable to Cork, Ireland via a new landing station. Hibernia is the only transatlantic cable provider to own and operate three diverse cable landing stations in Ireland and the only provider with six diverse routes connecting the island of
Scientists Study Tropical Oceans OMZ Growth
Long-term observations indicate that the oxygen minimum zones in the tropical oceans have expanded in recent decades. The reason is still unknown. The scientists at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Collaborative Research Centre 754 “Climate – Biogeochemical Interactions in
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (December 15 – December 21). The UK-based oil services company Subsea 7 is reported to be letting go almost 150 employees in Norway. According to the latest reports, the company revealed that its Norwa
PGS Drops Guidance, Postpones Vessels
Oslo-listed seismic player Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) said today it expects lower earnings for this year and a further decline in profits in 2015 due to drop in oil prices and exploration cost cuts by the offshore oil companies. The company expects its EBITDA to be around $700 million for the year
Boskalis Gets Wikinger OWF Construction Contract
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) in partnership with Volker Stevin International (VolkerWessels) have been awarded a contract by Iberdrola Renewables Offshore Deutschland GmbH for the partial construction of the Wikinger Offshore Wind Farm in German section of the Baltic Sea. The work comp
PHOTO: SAL’s MV Frauke Completes Its Job
SAL Heavy Lift’s Type 176 vessel MV Frauke successfully finalized her latest project, for which it had been engaged since July 2014. The project consisted of seven phases: – Mobilization and special preparation of the vessel in Germany and the Netherlands; – Loading and transport of two empty carous