Statoil has declared the second of three one year options for each of the AHTS vessels Havila Mars and Havila Mercury and the first of two one year options for the RRV vessel Havila Runde. The agreed rates for the optional periods are according to current market level. The firm period for Havila Mar
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the publication of the following documents relating to fiscal year 2010, which ended on November 30, 2010: 2010 Annual Report and Financial Statements 2010 Annual Report on Form 20-F 2010 Annual Accounts for the Luxembourg holding Company The Company advises that the 20
During 30 years as a commercial diver Bob Durrant was often intrigued by the impact discarded car tyres had on the seabed. So instead of retiring, he launched a company to investigate whether linked tyres could prevent sand scouring which causes problems for turbines, cables and other subsea structu
Blue Offshore and Integrated Subsea Services have completed their feasibility study on the possible use of multipurpose DP2 vessel Normand Tonjer for array cable installation on offshore wind farms. The scope of the study included development of deck layouts for cable installation and cable burial t
This frame agreement will allow Technocean AS, a subsidiary of Reef Subsea AS, to act as a partner to Technip Norway and other Technip Group companies for subsea services in the NCS (both Norway and UK) and Canada according to pre-agreed terms. Technocean will perform its commitments calling on its
Infinera has been selected by MedNautilus to upgrade its subsea network for the speed of deployment and scalability of the Infinera submarine solution. MedNautilus, the Mediterranean operations of the Telecom Italia Sparkle Group and the first and only protected submarine ring-configured backbone in
The EPIC project with Statoil, an internationally renowned energy company, is worth approximately US$41 million and will involve EMAS AMC supplying and installing 55km of power cables along with associated terminations and ancillaries for the Gudrun field in the North Sea. State-of-the-art multipurp
YSI, along with two of its divisions—SonTek/YSI and YSI Integrated Systems—will be demonstrating three systems which can deliver cost-saving solutions for oceanographic data collection at the Ocean Business Exhibition. On Tuesday, April 5, YSI will demonstrate a new, simple, fast and accurate CTD, t
As part of the homeland security activity in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to test commercially available water quality sensors for their ability to provide a warning alarm due to deliberate or unintentional contamination events within a drinking water system
Seatec received an order for the conversion of an existing subsea slib-sampler. Seatec will design and install a complete subsea package to be used in combination with the existing slib-sampler. Two seperate junction boxes will be installed. One with all electrics and one with pneumatics as well as
Endeavour International Corporation announced the United Kingdom Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has approved the Rochelle Field Development Plan (FDP) for Block 15/27 in the Central North Sea, now known as East Rochelle. This approval represents phase one of the development of the Gr
Brisk business has been reported by Aberdeen-based Ecosse Subsea Systems, following the Subsea 2011 event in the city recently. First-time exhibitors Ecosse Subsea Systems have announced interest from across the globe in all divisions of the company, particularly the £500,000 SCAR specialist trenchi
Kongsberg Seatex’s unique ‘eBird’ Seismic Streamer Control System has been nominated for the prestigious Honours Award for Design Excellence by the Norwegian Design Council (NDC). Kongsberg Seatex, Kongsberg Maritime’s specialist in position reference systems, and attitude determination, is one of f
FoundOcean is awarded the freespan correction contract for the Troll P12 Project in the North Sea by Subsea7. FoundOcean will manufacture and install two fabric formwork grout bags to support the expected freespan of the new 36” pipeline at the approach to the Troll A Platform, in the Norwegian Sect