Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW), a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Cable, has received a newly refurbished DP2 cable laying vessel under a long term charter agreement from the vessel management company Meriaura. The vessel M/V Aura has been refurbished to the exact specifications of NSW and
Technip and Heerema Marine Contractors (Heerema) announce today that they have signed a worldwide alliance agreement where the two companies will combine their capabilities to help their clients best address the fast growing subsea ultra-deepwater market. ALLIANCE RATIONALE Ultra-deepwater projects
The Isle of Wight Council has received a double boost in its efforts to support the green economy. The council has secured nearly £700,000 of European money to help finance the necessary preparatory works for its Solent Offshore Energy Centre (SOEC) proposals to create tidal energy testing facilitie
RWE AG, through its subsidiary RWE Dea Norge AS, reached an agreement on the sale of its 20% licence interest in the “Edvard Grieg” development in Norway to OMV (Norge) AS, a subsidiary of OMV AG, for a cash purchase price of € 247.9 million as per effective date 1 January 2012 plus a contingent [&h
The UK government is considering the installation of subsea cables which would transfer wind power from Ireland to the National Grid, BBC reports. The Irish-based wind farms could provide power for three million UK homes. According to Mike O’Neill from Element Power, the £6bln infrastructure project
Marine Current Turbines and its parent company Siemens will be exhibiting at the ICOE 2012 (International Conference on Ocean Energy), taking place in Dublin. Siemens is also one of the principal sponsors of the conference and exhibition that attracts delegates from across the globe. David Ainsworth
DOF Subsea AS has secured multiple contracts awards in Asia, in Atlantic and in the Gulf of Mexico over the last couple of weeks with a total contract value of abt. USD 50 mill. In the Asia Pacific Region DOF Subsea have secured several new contracts and extension of existing contracts with a total
Coastline Surveys has recently completed a Geo-Environmental investigation on behalf of Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, as part of the Liverpool 2 container terminal development. The survey data and samples will provide marine sediment quality information and chemical analysis including dissipatio
Gulf Bridge International (GBI), the Middle East’s first carrier neutral regional network, and Xtera Communications Inc. (Xtera), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, announced the full 100G connectivity between Zafarana cable landing station in Egypt on the Red Sea and Milan P
AWS Ocean Energy is one of five Scottish marine energy developers to benefit from £7.9 million funding, to further develop testing of new wave and tidal prototypes in the seas around Scotland. The company was awarded a £3.9 million grant towards the cost to design, build and launch a project to prov
Today, Tocardo International, the leading Dutch producer of tidal and free-flow water turbines, announces the start of a strategic long-term partnership with Huisman. Huisman is an international designer and manufacturer of construction equipment for the on- and offshore industry. New shares have be
BP announces completion of a major milestone on its Kinnoull project in the UK’s central North Sea. On 14th October the new 700 tonne processing unit for the Kinnoull and Andrew Lower Cretaceous reservoirs, built in Hartlepool, England, was successfully installed on to BP’s Andrew platform, 230 kilo
SAM Electronics of Hamburg, an L-3 company, has been awarded a major contract for supply and installation of a comprehensive IT network and associated equipment aboard Pieter Schelte, the €1.3 billion dynamically-positioned platform installation-decommissioning and pipelay vessel being built by Daew
Jee Ltd, a leading independent multi-discipline engineering and training firm, announced further plans for expansion to accommodate the company’s growth strategy and the creation of 150 new jobs in the UK. The company which provides a complete range of subsea engineering expertise also announced the
