Subsea
Motive’s New Division Bags £1M in Contracts
Offshore services firm Motive Offshore has attracted £1 million worth of new North Sea contracts after launching a new spooling and inspection division six months ago. Marine specialist has formed a partnership with husband and wife team, Ally and Claire Forbes, who have a share in the firm’s new sp
Borets Gets Senior VP Business Development & Sales
Borets, the provider of engineering, manufacturing, sales and service of electric submersible pump (ESP) systems, has named William P. Faubel as senior vice president-business development & sales of Borets U.S., located in Houston. Faubel will lead the company’s business development initiatives, exp
ISA, China Minmetals Ink Exploration Contract
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) and China Minmetals Corporation have signed a 15-year exploration contract for polymetallic nodules. The exploration contract was signed in Beijing, China, by the secretary-general of the International Seabed Authority, Michael Lodge and the chairman of China
AAE-1 Subsea Cable Lands in Cambodia
The Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) submarine cable system has landed in Cambodia. Optic Marine Offshore and the crew of the cable laying barge ‘Cable Orchestra’ have completed the shore end lay at Sihanoukville, Cambodia. AAE-1 is a 25,000 km system owned by a consortium of 19 global service providers
Wärtsilä Supports WaveRoller Wave Energy Device Development
Wärtsilä will support the development of the latest WaveRoller wave energy convertor, designed by Finnish company AW-Energy, with a series of sub-assemblies for the prototype. The patented WaveRoller is a device that harnesses the energy of ocean waves and turns it into electricity. The project itse
Oceanteam Secures Cable Storage Deal
Oceanteam Solutions has been awarded a long-term contract to supply a company that provides cables and systems for energy and telecommunications with port facilities, loadouts and storage of cables at Oceanteam’s own cable storage facility in Velsen Noord, The Netherlands. Furthermore, Oceanteam wil
Semco Maritime Wins Culzean Hook-Up Job
Maersk Oil UK has selected Semco Maritime to participate in the installation and preparation (hook-up) of the new gas production field Culzean, which is located 240 kilometres east of the coast of Aberdeen in the UK sector of the North Sea. The contract is the largest ever for Semco Maritime’s Aberd
Equinix, Eastern Light Collaborate on New Submarine Cable
Equinix has started working with Eastern Light on its new international fiber optic cable route in northern Europe. The new cable system is non-amplified and designed to let customers use their own equipment on their own dark fiber and will go from Stockholm in Sweden to Hanko, Helsinki and Kotka in
GBI Secures USD 285M Loan Refinancing Deal
Gulf Bridge International (GBI) has finalised a loan refinancing deal that should allow the company to explore new business and investment opportunities and to further support its successful transformational journey. Namely, the first privately-owned submarine cable system in the Middle East, has se
RETN Taps Aqua Comms’ AEConnect to Deliver Transatlantic Connectivity
RETN, a provider of international data transmission services, has partnered with Aqua Comms, the operator of Ireland’s first dedicated subsea fibre-optic network interconnecting New York, Dublin and London, to deliver transatlantic capacity on Aqua Comms’ America-Europe Connect (AEConnect) subsea ca
Motive Offshore Launches Spooling and Inspection Division
Motive Offshore Group has, in partnership with Ally and Claire Forbes, established a new spooling and inspection division, situated in the Kirkhill Industrial Estate, Dyce. Mr Forbes has joined Motive Spooling and Inspection as general manager, with Mrs Forbes taking on the role of operations coordi
Gotland Link Gets ‘IEEE Milestone’ Award
Vattenfall and ABB have been awarded the ‘IEEE Milestone’ for the high-voltage DC transmission cable built between the island of Gotland and the mainland in 1954 – the first of its kind in the world for commercial operation. The Milestone award, which has been called the Nobel Prize for Electricity,
VBMS Supplies Inter-Array Cables for Albatros OWF
VBMS, a subsidiary of Boskalis, has been awarded an inter-array cabling contract by EnBW Albatros GmbH for the 112MW Albatros offshore wind farm. The contract includes the supply, installation and burial as well as termination and testing of nineteen 33kV inter-array cables. The cable installation a
Heerema to Build Peregrino II Jacket
Heerema Fabrication Group has received a procurement and construction contract for the Peregrino II jacket by South Atlantic Holding, on behalf of Statoil. The Peregrino jacket will be approximately 135 meters tall, with a footprint of 66 x 53 meters and will weigh 9,300 tonnes (excluding the 12 pil