Mermaid Maritime’s joint venture with a Middle Eastern offshore services company has secured a one-year contract extension for subsea services with an upstream oil and gas company. Thailand-headquartered Mermaid won the contract in a joint venture formed with a local offshore services operator in a
Norwegian shipping group Island Offshore has awarded compatriot shipbuilder VARD with a contract to design and construct one hybrid power ocean energy construction vessel (OECV) and has also agreed on an option for two more vessels. In 2020-2021, Island Offshore, whose 19-vessel fleet operates in th
Malaysia’s Sapura Energy has secured $1.8 billion worth of contracts with Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras for six multi-purpose pipe-laying support vessels (PLSVs). Sapura Energy’s joint venture entities Seabras Sapura Holding and Seabras Sapura Participacoes have been awarded the
Dutch offshore services provider Boskalis has outfitted its new subsea rock installation vessel with a new inclined fallpipe with the aim of expanding its range. Following its first rock installation project in Australia earlier this year, the Seapiper subsea rock installation vessel was outfitted w
Norway’s shipbuilder VARD has contracted compatriot TMC Compressors to supply a complete marine compressed air system for a cable-laying vessel (CLV) that it is constructing for Italian cabling giant Prysmian. Under the contract whose value has not been disclosed, TMC will deliver a marine compresse
France-based geoscience technology services company CGG and U.S. energy technology company Baker Hughes have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly explore carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions. CGG said that the collaboration and proposed commercial alliance intends to support t
Following a recent long-term strategic agreement with Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor, SLB OneSubsea and Subsea7’s Subsea Integration Alliance has secured a contract with Norwegian oil & gas company OKEA for its North Sea field. The “sizeable” integrated engineering, procurement, construct
The landfall of the first submarine cable circuit has been completed by LS Cable & System and LS Marine Solution in the construction of the Jeonnam offshore wind farm in South Korea. Jeonnam Offshore Wind Power was founded in 2020 as a 51-49 joint venture between SK E&S and Copenhagen Infrastructure
ZTT Submarine Cable & System has finished the installation and termination of the 155 kV submarine cable connecting the Gode Wind 3 offshore wind farm to the DolWin kappa offshore converter platform in Germany. In 2020, TenneT contracted ZTT Submarine Cable & System to link the 253 MW offshore wind
French cable maker Nexans has kicked off the installation of high-voltage alternating current (HVAC) onshore cable on the Irish side of the Celtic Interconnector, set to link the power systems of Ireland and France together for the first time via subsea power cable. The project is being developed by
Saipem’s Hydrone-R underwater intervention drone has achieved uninterrupted subsea operations for nearly six months, performing remotely operated works and autonomous missions on Equinor’s Njord oil and gas field offshore Norway. The Hydrone-R, whose operations are fully supervised from Saipem’s ons
Norwegian oil and gas player Aker BP has awarded compatriot subsea technology company Optime Subsea with a contract to develop and deliver multiple remotely operated controls systems (ROCS) for use on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). Aker BP has placed an order with Optime Subsea for the renta
Norway’s energy data and intelligence provider, TGS, has won an ocean bottom node (OBN) data acquisition contract in North America that is expected to take over six months to complete.
The development of an HVDC cable connection, which is said to be the longest ever built in Great Britain, is moving forward, with the construction works slated to kick off this autumn.
