Subsea
Skagerrak 4 Officially Launched
The new High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) submarine cable system interconnecting Norway and Denmark, Skagerrak 4, has been officially inaugurated and ready for commercial operation. The realisation of Skagerrak 4 had been agreed upon by the Danish and the Norwegian transmission grid operators Energ
Statoil Halts Veslefrikk Drilling Due to Seismic Interpretation
Statoil announced that the licence partners have decided to temporarily halt drilling on Veslefrikk. The stoppage is due to the time that will be needed to interpret new seismic data, which can help in bringing profitable new drilling targets on the field to maturity. The drilling stoppage is expect
VIDEO: Kleven Splashes ‘Olympic Nike’
Norway’s Kleven Verft has launched Olympic Shipping’s future subsea vessel “Olympic Nike”. Back in May 2014, Olympic Shipping entered into a new contract with Kleven Verft for building of an Inspection Maintenance Repair (IMR) vessel with MT6021 MK2 design. The MK2 design is a further development of
ABB Nets Walney Extension Subsea Cable Deal
ABB has won an order worth around $130 million from DONG Energy to supply a high-voltage cable system that will bring power from the Walney Extension wind park off the northwest coast of England to more than a million people in the United Kingdom. The Walney Extension will provide additional generat
Jan De Nul to Install Race Bank Subsea Export Cables
DONG Energy has signed an agreement with the Jan De Nul Group for the installation of subsea export cables at the Race Bank offshore wind development project in the UK. Race Bank offshore wind farm, when operational, will have a capacity of up to 580 megawatts, enough to power over 400,000 UK homes.
MCP Builds Largest 4G Network at Sea for Statoil
Statoil has chosen Maritime Communications Partner (MCP) to deploy and operate their high speed 4G-network on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Statoil and MCP have signed a six years contract with an option to extend for another four years. With that MCP will immediately start building “the wo
Hughes SSE Presents New Corporate Brand at EWEA
Hughes Sub Surface Engineering (Hughes SSE), today officially launched its new corporate brand, including a new logo, tagline and customer materials at EWEA Offshore 2015 in Copenhagen. As stated by Hughes SSE, the rebranding reflects the many recent changes the company has undergone as well as its
Kongsberg: MK-II Version of EM 710 Multibeam Echo Sounder
Kongsberg Maritime has launched an advanced MK-II version of its EM® 710 multibeam echo sounder. The new EM 710 MK-II increases range and swath coverage over the original EM 710 by up to 40%. The EM 710 MK-II has a maximum range of approximately 2800m, a significant improvement over the original ver
Boskalis Boosts Profit
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) realized a net profit attributable to shareholders of EUR 490.3 million, compared to EUR 365.7 million in 2013. During the past year revenue rose by 1% to EUR 3.167 billion (2013: EUR 3.144 billion). Adjusted for acquisitions, deconsolidations and divestmen
Jobs Lost As Reef Subsea UK Falls into Administration
Reef Subsea UK, operating from a head office in Stockton-On-Tees, County Durham with vessel mobilisation at the Port of Blyth, Northumberland, has fallen into administration resulting in the loss of 43 jobs. The Company that provides marine trenching services to the offshore wind and oil & gas marke
Seaeye Sabertooth AUV Shows 4D Capabilities
For offshore operators, a 4D geo-spatial data acquisition system with data visualisation in real-time is now available for the Seaeye Sabertooth AUV. Its full capabilities were demonstrated to representatives of twelve companies from seven countries, together with the Danish Navy, in Saab’s underwat
INTERVIEW: Spectrum Sees Huge Potential Offshore Adriatic
It’s the second day of the Adriatic Oil & Gas Summit (AOG) in Budva, Montenegro, a summit focused on the offshore oil and gas investment opportunities within Montenegro, Croatia and Albania. The day two started off by covering the production lifecycle for exploration from the seismic and ultrasound
MacArtney, Sea-Bird Solutions for Turkish Research Vessels
MacArtney Underwater Technology and Sea-Bird Scientific have joined forces to deliver four oceanographic instrumentation solutions to research vessel operators in Turkey. According to MacArtney, Turkish research clients procured a combination of MacArtney CORMAC Q winches and Sea-Bird Scientific CTD
BEL Valves to Establish New Subsea Engineering Facility
Muckle LLP have been advising BEL Valves on the establishment of a new £10m subsea engineering facility for Newcastle’s Quayside. Plans for the 20,000 sq ft Neptune Test Centre on the Spillers Tyne Mill site, which will house four hyperbaric chambers that simulate the environment of subsea depths up