Subsea
Bibby HydroMap Appoints New Operations Director
Bibby HydroMap has appointed Mick Slater as their new Operations Director. After 3 years with the company, Mick Slater has been appointed to the role of Operations Director. With an MBE to his name and over 40 years of industry experience including more than 30 years in the Royal Navy, Mick will hol
Update: Polarcus Starts MSGB Shoot
Polarcus Limited has started a new 3D broadband multi-client project across the Mauritania-Senegal-Guinea-Bissau Basin (“MSGB”), offshore Northwest Africa. Erin Energy has contracted Polarcus to carry out the survey using the Polarcus Alima, an ultra-modern 12 streamer 3D/4D seismic vessel. The proj
NorSea Group Names UK Finance Director
NorSea Group (UK) Ltd has appointed Karen Russell as its first UK Finance Director. Karen becomes the third addition to the Group’s executive team as the company continues to grow its activity across Scotland in both the decommissioning and subsea support sectors. She joins MD Walter Robertson and O
FPSO Fault Halts Jubilee Gas Export
Tullow Oil plc announces that gas export from the Jubilee Field to the Ghana Gas plant at Atuabo has been suspended since 3 July 2015 due to technical issues with gas compression systems on the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah and is expected to resume by mid-August. Oil production is currently constrained to app
HII Nets Submarine Engineering Contract
Huntington Ingalls Industries announced that its Newport News Shipbuilding division was awarded a $106 million contract to provide engineering and industrial support on U.S. Navy submarines, special mission submersibles, submarine support facilities and related programs. If all options are exercised
MPS Welcomes EU Commission’s Innovation Fund Proposal
Marine Power Systems (MPS), a Swansea-based company that is developing technology designed to harness wave energy, welcomes the European Commission’s proposal for an Innovation Fund, to strengthen the Emission Trading Scheme and support emerging renewable technologies. MPS is developing the WaveSub
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (July 13 – July 19). SubC Partner has awarded DOF Subsea UK two contracts to support the execution of its project to replace selected buoyancy modules on a live riser for Maersk Oil in the Dumbarton Fi
DeepOcean to Install Cables for Bligh Bank Phase II
DeepOcean 1 UK Ltd., a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group, has been awarded the inter array cable installation contract for the Bligh Bank Phase II Offshore Wind Farm in Belgium. Nobelwind NV is developing the Bligh Bank Phase II Offshore Wind Farm with fifty 3.3MW wind turbines offshore Belgium, with an
DOF Subsea, SubC to Work on Dumbarton Field
SubC Partner has awarded DOF Subsea UK two contracts to support the execution of its project to replace selected buoyancy modules on a live riser for Maersk Oil in the Dumbarton Field. The first scope focuses on onshore solution optimization, and sees DOF Subsea providing ROV assets, personnel and t
New Cable Capacity Record for Alcatel-Lucent and Apollo
Apollo and Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) have successfully demonstrated a capacity of 8 terabits-per-second (Tbit/s) of data per fiber pair on the Apollo South system, which connects France to the United States. For the demonstration ASN used its current generation 1620 Light Manager subma
STATS Wins Middle East EPRS Deal
STATS Group has secured a 10-year contract in excess of $10 million (£6.5 million) with a major LNG operator in the Middle East. The EPRS and pre-planned isolation contract follows the completion of a similar multi-million pound contract on behalf of the world’s largest LNG producer Qatargas. The sp
Prysmian Cables for Normandie 1 Link
Prysmian has been awarded a new contract by Jersey Electricity (UK) for the “Normandie 1” project to provide electricity to Jersey in the Channel Islands from the French mainland. The project involves the turn-key supply and installation of a High Voltage Alternate Current (HVAC) cable connection fr
Fugro Secures Fehmarnbelt Geotechnical Survey
Fugro has been awarded the Geotechnical Verification Investigations 2015 programme by Femern, owner of the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link project. The planned 18 kilometre-long immersed tunnel will connect Denmark and Germany as part of the Scandinavian-Mediterranean corridor, one of the EU’s nine priority
Genesis to Buy Enterprise GoM Pipelines and Services Business
Enterprise Products Partners has executed definitive agreements to sell its offshore Gulf of Mexico pipelines and services business, which primarily consists of its Offshore Pipelines & Services business segment to Genesis Energy for approximately $1.5 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to