Project & Tenders
Hurricane suffers a setback during Lancaster hook-up operations
Hurricane Energy has encountered a problem during the hook-up stage of its Early Production System (EPS) development of the Lancaster field in the West of Shetland area.
Sandvik Bags $111M in Tubular Orders
Sandvik Materials Technology has received several orders for advanced tubes for the oil and gas industry. The contract has a combined value of about 1 billion SEK ($111 million), with the majority being for umbilical tubes. Orders were booked in the first quarter of 2019 and deliveries are scheduled
Shell picks subsea compression option for Ormen Lange field
Shell has chosen subsea compression as a concept for the third phase of the Ormen Lange field development, located 140 kilometers north-west of Kristiansund, in the Norwegian Sea. Rich Denny, CEO of A / S Norske Shell said on Friday that Shell had evaluated a number of alternative concepts before op
Ulstein Orders Red Rock Crane for Merkur SOV
Ulstein Verft has contracted Red Rock to deliver a 3D-motion compensated knuckle jib crane for the service operations vessel (SOV) ordered by Bernhard Schulte for the Merkur offshore wind farm. Red Rock also delivered cranes and davits for the two previous vessels, Windea La Cour and Windea Leibniz,
Swire Seabed Orders HUGIN AUV from Kongsberg Maritime
Kongsberg Maritime has secured an order from Swire Seabed for a HUGIN autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) configured for commercial survey applications. The Swire Seabed HUGIN AUV system is rated to 4500 meters and equipped with Kongsberg Maritime’s HISAS 1032 Synthetic Aperture Sonar and EM2040 mul
Bureau Veritas Wins Fenja Inspection Work
Bureau Veritas has been awarded a four-year contract with Neptune Energy to provide second and third-party inspection services for the new Fenja oil and gas field development, offshore Norway. The Fenja Field, which is estimated to hold 100 million barrels of oil, lies in the Norwegian Sea. Formerly
Uniper, Titan join forces on advancing use of LNG as fuel
German utility Uniper and the Dutch Titan LNG signed a memorandum of understanding to accelerate the growth of LNG as a fuel in the downstream markets for industry, road fuel and shipping fuel in Germany.
Aker BP transfers Ivar Aasen operations to onshore control room
Aker BP has become the first company on the NCS to operate a staffed platform from an onshore control room.
Seatec Bags Sonar Order
The Nederlands-based technical solutions provider Seatec has received new orders for the ARIS 3000 Sonar. Units are sold to Benelux Offshore operator and will be used for UXO identification work. According to the company, the delivery is scheduled for Q1. The ARIS Explorer 3000 works in zero visibil
TenneT Books Connector Express
Transmission system operator TenneT has chartered the Connector Express to provide supply trips to offshore platforms as well as perform inspections and repair work on structures and submarine cables from the base port of Emden. Rhenus Offshore Logistics, working in conjunction with A1 Offshore Solu
Global Marine on Sirius South Cable Repair Duty
Global Marine has been contracted to undertake an emergency fibre-optic submarine cable repair to the Sirius South fibre-optic cable in the UK EEZ of the Irish Sea. The vessel CS Sovereign has already mobilised from Portland and arrived on site on Tuesday the 15th January 2019. The repair will take
Construction of New Antarctic Wharf Underway
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has just reported that the modernization work has begun at Rothera Research Station, with BAM Nuttall starting on the deconstruction of the old wharf. A new 74-meter long wharf, bigger, deeper and stronger than the current one, will be built during the next two Antarct
Vryhof Racks Up $75M in New Contracts
Vryhof companies – Deep Sea Mooring, Vryhof Anchors and Moorlink – have recently won up to $75 million in new contracts. The contracts include landmark deals for Vryhof Anchors for the WindFloat Atlantic wind farm, offshore Portugal, the world’s first commercial floating wind farm, and the Havfarm 1
IUEM Picks iXblue Subsea Solution for Geodetic Project Off Sicily
iXblue has been selected by the European Institute for Marine Studies (IUEM) to provide 8 Canopus LBL transponders for a major geodetic mission off the coast of Sicily. Deployed on the seabed, 2,500 meters below the surface, the Canopus transponders will measure the crustal deformation along the Nor