Subsea
SeaBird and Lundin Team Up on Barents Sea Survey
SeaBird Exploration informed that it will acquire a long offset 2D multi-client survey in the Barents Sea. SeaBird and Lundin Norway have jointly designed the survey, to be acquired during September-October 2016. The survey objective is to acquire long-offset profiles that image large scale deep sea
Hurricane Completes Testing of Lancaster Pilot Well
Hurricane Energy has completed the testing and logging phase of the 205/21a-7 well, the ‘Pilot well’, and operations are now progressing to permanently abandon the well reservoir section prior to side-tracking the top-hole to form the the ‘Horizontal well’. Preliminary third party analysis from the
Maersk Gallant Gets Leadon and James Decom Job
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract for the jack-up rig Maersk Gallant with Maersk Oil for the plugging and abandonment of the Leadon and James subsea fields in the UK sector of the North Sea. The duration of the contract is estimated to 230 days, with commencement in February 2017. The esti
Mermaid Scoops Close to $7M in New Deals
Mermaid Maritime’s subsidiary, Seascape, has been awarded two additional subsea contracts in South East Asia with a total estimated potential value of USD 5.1 million. The first package of work involves the DP2 dive support vessel “Mermaid Nusantara” together with heavy duty work-class ROVs for a 30
Tekmar and Subsea Innovation Team Up
Tekmar Energy and Subsea Innovation have signed a strategic collaborations agreement to collaborate in sales, product development and strategic initiatives towards cost and risk reduction in both OWF cabling equipment and O&G SURF and pipeline ancillaries. Namely, the new deal should see the two com
More Red Ink for Bourbon
Bourbon has seen its loss widened in the first half of 2016 as revenue fell on lower utilization and daily rates pressured by tough market conditions. French vessel owner and offshore services provider has recognized a €104.3 million ($117.5 million) net loss (group share) for the first six months o
Hummer Jacket Set for Touchdown
Following a short weather-related delay, platform jacket for the Hummer development project in the Gulf of Mexico has arrived to its destination. The platform jacket is a 4 pile, 3 slot structure designed to be installed in water depth of 65.5 meters over the Main Pass Block 270 #3 Hummer discovery
EIB Funds Humber Gateway Offshore Transmission Link
The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide GBP 82 million (USD 109.3 million) for the purchase, operation and maintenance of a new electricity transmission connection between the Humber Gateway offshore wind farm and the UK national electricity network. The new Humber Gateway transmission li
Gazprom Obtains First Permits for TurkStream Project
Gazprom has received the first permits for the TurkStream project from Turkish authorities following the decision to resume the project this year. Namely, at last week’s negotiations between Alexey Miller, chairman of the Gazprom management committee, and Berat Albayrak, minister of energy and natur
NEC to Build Indonesia Global Gateway Submarine Cable
NEC Corporation has signed a contract with PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Tbk (Telkom) to develop the Indonesia Global Gateway cable system (IGG). The IGG is an optical submarine cable system that will connect the islands of Sumatra, Batam, Jawa, Bali, Kalimantan and Sulawesi with Singapore. The IGG
Western Link Contruction Advances
Cable laying vessel Giulio Verne and support vessel Go Pegasus are continuing with installation and survey work in the Irish Sea along the Western HVDC Link cable route, AWJ Marine informs. The Western Link Project consists of installing two 600 kV DC submarine cables in the Irish Sea from Ardneil (
Aker Solutions Wins Utgard-Sleipner EPCIC Work
Aker Solutions said it will provide engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) services to enable a tie-in of the Utgard gas and condensate field to the Statoil-operated Sleipner facilities in the North Sea. The work, valued at about NOK 500 million ($61 million),
Docomo Pacific Finalizes Marine Surveys for ATISA Cable
Docomo Pacific has completed marine surveys for the undersea path of ATISA submarine cable leading to the cable landing sites on Guam, Saipan, Rota, and Tinian, which is the next step in the route selection process. “The selection process was a joint team effort by representatives from NEC Corporati
E.ON Sells Humber Gateway OWF Transmission Assets
E.ON has signed an agreement for the sale of transmission assets at its Humber Gateway offshore wind farm to a consortium comprising Balfour Beatty Investments and Equitix. Balfour Beatty Investments and Equitix were selected by Ofgem in September 2015 as the preferred bidder to own and operate the