Amid the global energy transition, offshore survey and inspection companies are working on decarbonizing – but the industry is also going through a transition of its own. Bureau Veritas, Terradepth and Sulmara are among a number of offshore survey companies that are increasingly using autonomous or
A consortium of Boskalis and Orient Cable (NBOS) has completed the pull-in and burial of the second export cable for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust West Beta offshore grid connection at the landfall location in Velsen-Noord, the Netherlands. The 700 MW grid connection will link the offshore wind farm that
Norwegian state-owned energy company Equinor has awarded compatriot Ocean Installer with an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract to deliver a subsea scope for its huge oil and natural gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Equinor and its partners have
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has validated the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets submitted by Chinese subsea cable manufacturer Zhongtian Technology Submarine Cable (ZTTSC).
Norwegian vessel owner DOF Group has added more work to its to-do list for Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras by securing two new long-term contracts. The Brazil-built and flagged 142.2-meter-long pipelay support vessel (PLSV) Skandi Niterói has been given a three-year firm plus option contract,
Norway’s Reach Subsea is collaborating with compatriot state-owned energy giant Equinor to carry out a technology qualification program for the Reach Remote uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) that aims to validate remote operations for various tasks. Reach Remote 1 and 2 have entered the final testing
Three companies have confirmed the award of new CO2 storage licenses as part of the sixth call launched by Norway’s Ministry of Energy.
SSEN Transmission’s Shetland High Voltage Direct-Current (HVDC) Link in the North Sea has transmitted its first power from a wind farm to the mainland, nearing full energization. The £660 million Shetland HVDC Link connects Noss Head in Caithness and Weisdale Voe in Shetland. The 260-kilometer subse
Allseas has been urged to abandon further technological development of giant mining machines due to the allegedly harmful consequences their use will have.
Texas-based Trendsetter Engineering has tucked a new assignment under its belt on two offshore oil fields in Brazil.
TGS has been put in charge of offshore subsurface data insights into the maturity and distribution of source rocks off the coast of Tanzania.
Oceaneering International has been hired to provide an electro-hydraulic, steel tube dynamic umbilical for an energy project in the Gulf of Mexico.
Prysmian has confirmed the start of its vessel’s journey to Norway, where outfitting completion and trials will take place before the cable layer embarks on its inaugural job at a high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable connection in the UK.
Switzerland-headquartered Allseas is months away from embarking on a subsea pipeline assignment in the Caribbean.
