Subsea
Namaka Subsea Scores UK North Sea Deal
Namaka Subsea, an Aberdeen based subsea consulting company, has secured a 5-year contract with an undisclosed UK North Sea operator to act as their diving technical authority. This scope of work outlines the requirement for Namaka Subsea to provide diving technical authority, dive assurance and dive
Genesis Scoops BP FEED Award
Engineering company Genesis has been awarded two frame agreement contracts by BP covering work in the Conceptual, Pre-FEED and FEED stages of the project lifecycle. These frame agreement contracts have global reach and ensure that Genesis will continue to engage early with BP to support them in thei
Subsea 7 Expands Fleet with Two Newbuild Vessels
Subsea 7, a provider of seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services, has taken delivery of two newbuild vessels, Seven Arctic and Seven Kestrel. With this delivery, Subsea 7 has completed its fleet investment programme that has added six newbuild vessels to the company’s fleet since 201
Reach Subsea Enters Survey Deal for Edda Fonn
Norwegian IMR, ROV, survey construction support and decomissioning services provider, Reach Subsea, has entered into an ROV/survey contract for the vessel Edda Fonn. Reach said in an Oslo Stock Exchange filing on Wednesday that the new contract covers the next 40 days and that it is set to start thi
Ashtead Technology Sets Up New Group to Drive Down Subsea Costs
Ashtead Technology, a provider of subsea technology and services, is launching a new service to increase efficiency and drive down risk and cost in subsea and marine operations. By applying its engineering and technical know-how to solve specific subsea challenges, Ashtead has already delivered inte
UK Eyes Five Protection Areas for Harbour Porpoises
UK is looking to protect harbour porpoises by setting up five marine conservation areas in its surrounding waters. According to a statement on Tuesday by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), an adviser to the UK government on nature conservation, five harbour porpoise Special Areas of Con
Two MMA Offshore Newbuilds Start First Scopes of Work
Marine services provider MMA Offshore has informed that its two vessels MMA Prestige and MMA Pinnacle have been delivered and started their first scopes of work. The MMA Prestige and the MMA Pinnacle were launched at the company’s Batam shipyard in November 2015 and April 2016, respectively. Accordi
TCarta Marine and Proteus Geo Combine
TCarta Marine has merged with Proteus Geo to create a global mapping company that provides bathymetric and marine data sets from the shallow coastal zone out to the continental shelf. The new company is called TCarta Marine and will maintain offices in Denver and Oxford. “By merging, we believe the
PHOTO: Heerema Presses on with Culzean Jacket Work
Heerema Fabrication Group is pressing on with its operations on two jackets meant for the Culzean field development at its Vlissingen facility in the Netherlands. The company reported through its social media channels on Tuesday, January 31 that the last row of the Culzean’s utility & living quarter
Flux Group Bags Another Johan Sverdrup Contract
Flux Group’s subsidiary Active Service has been awarded a contract for the provision of 40 hydraulic umbilicals and hoses for a wellhead control system to the engineering and manufacturing company CRE8 Systems AS. The equipment will be installed at the Johan Sverdrup field. Flux Group has now secure
Nord Stream 2 Resolves Swedish Port Hurdle
Following reports that Sweden’s municipalities Karlshamn and Slite might not allow the use of their respective ports for pipe storage during the execution phase of the Nord Stream 2 project, Karlshamn has approved the use of its port. The Nord Stream 2 pipeline will carry natural gas through the Bal
Seatools Introduces New Subsea Storage Technology
In January of this year, Dutch subsea technology company Seatools completed an R&D program on a subsea liquid storage technology. During the program, a continuation of an earlier engineering study performed on behalf of Statoil, the storage technology successfully passed a full product qualification
PSA Probe Spots Deficiencies in Gullfaks B Ops Management
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has detected several non-conformities and improvement points in an audit of Statoil’s management of operations and barriers at Gullfaks B. Statoil is the operator of the Gullfaks field in the North Sea west of Sognefjord. The field has been developed using
Smulders Nets EOWDC Foundations Job
A contract for assembling pioneering suction bucket foundations for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) has helped safeguard around 35 jobs and create up to another 105 positions in Newcastle upon Tyne after being awarded to Smulders Projects. The company will carry out the