Subsea
DONG: Gode Wind’s First Foundation in Place
DONG Energy informed that the first foundation has been successfully installed at the Gode Wind Offshore Wind Farm in the German North Sea. With this project, DONG Energy is building Germany’s biggest offshore wind farm 45km from the mainland and around 33km from the islands Juist and Norderney. Tri
Subsea 7 Installs Nautronix NASNet on Aasta Hansteen
Nautronix has reported that the NASNet array in Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen field is fully operational and awaiting first field construction. Last year Nautronix secured an order with Subsea 7 to supply 16 NASNet stations along with a wet-stored spare station and three additional MTrx beacons to provid
Corvus Supplies ESS for Edda Freya
Corvus Energy, Siemens AS and Ostensjo Rederi strengthen their partnerships with a second offshore vessel project. The new 150m MPSV to be named the Edda Freya will incorporate a 1050VDC, 546kWh Corvus ESS consisting of 84 Corvus Energy AT6500 advanced lithium polymer battery modules. This new proje
Bourbon Under Bribery Inspection
Bourbon SA has been placed under formal investigation following the arrest and investigation of its former tax manager under suspicion of bribery of foreign public officials. Namely, Bourbon’s former tax manager was arrested at the airport of Marseille-Provence while he was returning from Africa in
New RP for Subsea Steel Forgings from DNV GL
DNV GL developed new Recommended Practice (RP) ’Steel forgings for subsea applications’ that will enable reduced lead times, enhanced stock keeping, interchangeability of forgings and help to improve and maintain consistent quality. “Unifying requirements for forgings into an acceptable common speci
Island Constructor Cleared For Work on Shell’s Draugen
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) informed that AS Norske Shell has been given green light to use Island Constructor for activities at well 6407/09-A-555-H on the Draugen field. Draugen is an oil field in the Norwegian Sea in 250 metres of water. The field has been developed using a fixed
Swiber Wins USD133 Mln EPIC Gig in India
Swiber Holdings has secured a US$133 million contract, the third award in India in the last three months, for Engineering, Procurement, Installation and Construction (EPIC) services. The project by the same national oil company which awarded Swiber two major contracts in February and March, involves
Fugro Secures Borssele OWF Contract
Fugro has been hired by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, to execute the geotechnical site investigation and geological modelling of sites I and II of the future Borssele wind farm park. The 1,400MW wind farm zone is located off the Zealand coast at the sou
TTS Nets New Crane Orders
TTS Group ASA has, through its Business Unit Offshore, entered into three new agreements for delivery of offshore and deck cranes with a total order value of approximately 105 MNOK ($13.2 million). The main contract is with Singapore’s Triyards Marine Services for delivery of two active heavy compen
Will Primavesi Moves from S3 to Neptune
Neptune announces the appointment of Will Primavesi as Survey General Manager for its European, Mediterranean and African Operations (EMA). “This appointment compliments our currently expanding ROV & Survey division within the EMA and forms part of the company’s strategic ‘One Neptune’ growth plan t
MacArtney’s Winch for RSI
Rockland Scientific Inc. (RSI), has ordered a small instrumentation winch from the MacArtney Underwater Technology Group (MacArtney) at Ocean Business 2015. The winch system is specifically designed for use with the RSI VMP-250 vertical turbulence profiler. MacArtney and RSI delivered the first VMP-
Carnegie, FCH Collaborate on Wave Energy Development in Chile
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited has signed a Collaboration Agreement with Fundación Chile (FCH) to collaborate on identifying a development pathway for commercial wave energy projects in Chile. Carnegie has signed a Collaboration Agreement with Fundación Chile to assess the potent
Kongsberg Subsea Package for RV Marion Dufresne
L’Institut Polaire Français Paul-Emile Victor (IPEV, the French Polar Institute) has chosen Kongsberg Maritime subsea hydroacoustic package for the mid-life upgrade of the R/V Marion Dufresne. The delivery includes new Kongsberg Maritime hydrographic equipment in addition to a Simrad EK80 scientific
Amec Foster Wheeler Gets BP Forties Pipeline Contract
Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by BP to provide operations, maintenance and project support for the Forties Pipeline System (which includes the Unity offshore platform and onshore pumping stations in Aberdeenshire and Perthshire) and the Central Area Transmission System terminal in