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PHOTO: Isaac Newton Construction Progresses
Belgian students paid a visit to Uljanik shipyard in Croatia and witnessed the construction process of Jan de Nul’s multipurpose vessel ‘Isaac Newton’. The vessel with deadweight of 10,500 tonnes and a total length of 138 m is currently under construction in Pula and it’s expected to be delivered mi
First Subsea Secures GROW Funding
First Subsea has been awarded £130,000 of Process Technology Innovation Funding under the Government’s GROW: Offshore Wind programme. The award is for development of a monopile interface connector and hang off cable connector for offshore wind farms and top tension mooring connector for floating win
Atlantis Gets Feed-in Tariff to Deploy Tidal Turbines at FORCE
Atlantis Resources Limited’s Canadian subsidiary has been awarded a Feed-in Tariff for up to 4.5 megawatts of tidal generation to be deployed at the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) in Nova Scotia, Canada. The Developmental Feed-In-Tariff award of C$530 (£292) per megawatt hour (MWh) p
Hibernia Networks Brings Express Link to Ireland
Hibernia Networks will land a direct connection of its Express cable to Cork, Ireland via a new landing station. Hibernia is the only transatlantic cable provider to own and operate three diverse cable landing stations in Ireland and the only provider with six diverse routes connecting the island of
Ocean Yield Delivers Geco Triton to WesternGeco
Ocean Yield announced that it has delivered “Geco Triton” seismic vessel to its new owners and received net cash proceeds of USD 8.2 million from the sale of the vessel. Previously the company announced the sale of the vessel to its charterer WesternGeco. Ocean Yield has also entered into an agreeme
Divers Relocate Corals Due to Miami Harbor Deepening
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Jacksonville District, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), and the Port of Miami have completed additional relocation of coral colonies as part of a major project to deepen Miami Harbor. The staghorn corals, known as acropora were relocated by divers durin
Govt Awards Support Tidal Turbines Deployment
Government is granting four awards that will help tidal energy developers deploy the first turbine arrays in the Bay of Fundy. In October, developers at the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) applied to the Department of Energy to receive a developmental feed-in tariff, an established pr
EvoLogics ‘Sonobot’ in Dead Sea Survey
EvoLogics joined scientists from the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany, who led a two-week field campaign north and south of the Darga river outlet on the Dead Sea coast in Israel. In cooperation with EvoLogics and the Scientific Diving Center (SDC) team of Technische Univer
Scientists Study Tropical Oceans OMZ Growth
Long-term observations indicate that the oxygen minimum zones in the tropical oceans have expanded in recent decades. The reason is still unknown. The scientists at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Collaborative Research Centre 754 “Climate – Biogeochemical Interactions in
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (December 15 – December 21). The UK-based oil services company Subsea 7 is reported to be letting go almost 150 employees in Norway. According to the latest reports, the company revealed that its Norwa
PGS Drops Guidance, Postpones Vessels
Oslo-listed seismic player Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) said today it expects lower earnings for this year and a further decline in profits in 2015 due to drop in oil prices and exploration cost cuts by the offshore oil companies. The company expects its EBITDA to be around $700 million for the year
Boskalis Gets Wikinger OWF Construction Contract
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) in partnership with Volker Stevin International (VolkerWessels) have been awarded a contract by Iberdrola Renewables Offshore Deutschland GmbH for the partial construction of the Wikinger Offshore Wind Farm in German section of the Baltic Sea. The work comp
PHOTO: SAL’s MV Frauke Completes Its Job
SAL Heavy Lift’s Type 176 vessel MV Frauke successfully finalized her latest project, for which it had been engaged since July 2014. The project consisted of seven phases: – Mobilization and special preparation of the vessel in Germany and the Netherlands; – Loading and transport of two empty carous
Ennsub Builds Ceona Amazon LARS
Ennsub has completed the design and manufacture of two innovative workclass remotely operated vehicle (WROV) deployment systems which have been designed and manufactured for ROVOP and are due to be installed into a new build, tier one pipelay vessel Ceona Amazon early in 2015. The company demonstrat