Project & Tenders

BW Offshore sends another laid-up FPSO to scrap yard
BW Offshore has arranged to recycle another one of its FPSOs at a yard in India to pursue portfolio optimisation.

Ondine to survey 200-turbine array offshore Ireland, part of 15.5 GW wind portfolio
Irish marine and aerial survey company Ondine has been awarded aerial baseline and geophysical investigation survey contracts for the Lir Offshore Array located off the east coast of Ireland. Survey works commenced in March 2022, utilising the multipurpose vessel Kommandor Iona and the Ondine Aer, O

MPS seeks marine operations services for wind and wave energy demonstrator
Welsh company Marine Power Systems (MPS) is looking to hire an experienced contractor to provide marine services for the deployment of its megawatt-scale wind and wave energy demonstrator in Spain.

Intertek gets more work on world’s longest subsea cable
UK’s Xlinks has awarded Intertek with a contract to provide quality assurance and technical advice on marine cable routing, survey specification and procurement for the planned interconnector between Morocco and the UK. Intertek will work with Xlinks to review cable routing, draft survey and technic

IOG marks ‘historic milestone’ as first gas flows from UK project
IOG has kicked off the first production at its Saturn Banks Project – Phase 1, located in the UK North Sea.

BP teams up with Aberdeen City Council to build hydrogen hub
British energy major BP has signed an agreement with Aberdeen City Council for a green hydrogen hub development.

Pipeline installation contractor wanted for Dutch CCS project
The Dutch Porthos Offshore Transport and Storage has issued a tender for the installation of about 20 kilometers of offshore pipeline for what will be one of the largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the world. Port of Rotterdam CO2 Transport Hub and Offshore Storage (Porthos) will tr

Morlais tidal energy scheme in need of environmental contractors
Menter Môn, the manager of the Morlais tidal energy project, has launched two tenders related to the procurement of environmental monitoring services for the scheme.

Aker Solutions to cover maintenance & modifications for OKEA for another seven years
Aker Solutions has secured a seven-year extension of its maintenance and modifications agreement with OKEA.

Vattenfall ready to exercise step-in rights offshore Germany, already seeking main contractors
Swedish energy company Vattenfall will participate in the tender for the N-7.2 offshore wind area in the German North Sea and will exercise its step-in rights if the company’s bid is not selected in the auction. Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) put the N-7.2 zone out to tender at

OMV taps TechnipFMC for Iris Hades field
TechnipFMC has secured a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract with OMV Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of the Austrian oil and gas company OMV, for the subsea production system (SPS & SURF) for the Iris Hades field. The integrated FEED contract for the Iris Hades development project is val

TenneT seeks offshore survey team
Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT has issued a contract notice for framework agreements to provide geophysical and geotechnical surveys for offshore platforms and cable routes. TenneT TSO B.V. is appointed by the Dutch government as the offshore grid operator and is responsible for en

MAN gets new subsea compressor order after world’s first units reach operational milestone
Equinor has awarded MAN Energy Solutions with a new contract to supply a subsea compressor unit for the Åsgard gas field offshore Norway in order to enhance production and extend the field’s lifetime. The order comes as the existing MAN subsea compression trains achieved 100,000 operational hours si

WATCH: Pioneering Spirit vessel installs final Sverdrup platform
The world’s largest heavy-lift vessel, Pioneering Spirit, has installed the fifth and final platform at the Johan Sverdrup field.