A consortium of McDermott and Baker Hughes has completed the installation of subsea infrastructure for Inpex its gas field located offshore Australia. Awarded to the consortium in 2019, the subsea infrastructure development project for the Ichthys field included engineering, procurement, constructio
Ørsted and Jan De Nul Group have signed the offshore export cable installation contract for the 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. This is the first offshore HVDC installation contract awarded by Ørsted in the UK, the company said. Belgium-headquartered Jan De Nul Group will be responsib
Houston-based marine robotics company Ocean Infinity has taken delivery of the last in a series of eight new high-tech, ammonia-ready Armada vessels. The vessel NB 941 was delivered by Vard Vung Tau in Vietnam on January 24. Vard received a contract to design and build these highly advanced, 78-mete
Texas-based oil and gas services company Trendsetter Engineering has completed two deepwater well stimulation campaigns for what the company says are major operators in the US Gulf of Mexico. These campaigns saw acid treatments performed on a total of six wells, in water depths from 6,500 to 7,200
UK-based Rovco has added a second hull-mounted survey vessel to its fleet, a move said to come in response to client demand for geophysical and geotechnical survey solutions. Rovco has entered into a four-year charter agreement with Glomar for the DP2 vessel Glomar Worker. “We are delighted with our
Dutch Boskalis has installed a new energy storage system on board its diving support vessel (DSV) BOKA Atlantis as part of the efforts to make its fleet more sustainable. Boskalis reported that a set of powerful batteries was recently installed on board BOKA Atlantis along the quay of the Boskalis S
The Correll Group has secured a contract with Hellenic Cables for the termination and testing of inter-array cables on the wind turbine generators and offshore substation for the 704 MW Revolution Wind offshore wind farm in the US. The Revolution Wind offshore wind farm is being developed by a joint
Ulstein Verft and Nexans have cut the first steel for Nexans’ new cable-laying vessel (CLV), four months after signing the shipbuilding contract. On January 19, on the day four months after signing the shipbuilding contract, Nexans Marine Operations and Ulstein Verft celebrated the start of the cons
BP has set a major four-dimensional (4D) high-definition ocean bottom node seismic program in motion at its giant oilfield in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan.
UTEC, a geo-services brand in Acteon’s Data and Robotics division, has been awarded a contract by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) to provide subsea balance of plant operations and maintenance (O&M) services to the German Butendiek offshore wind farm. Under the three-year contract, Acteon will
Following the delivery of equipment for Nexans Aurora, Ulstein Verft has awarded Red Rock with another contract to provide an upgraded crane package for Nexans’ new cable-lay vessel (CLV). The new CLV will have a deck capacity of 10.000t of cable, an under-deck capacity of 3.500t cable, and will be
After introducing its jet trenching system to the U.S. market, DeepOcean has completed the burial of a fuel support pipeline in the US Gulf of Mexico for Genesis Energy. DeepOcean’s trenching system, UT-1, was utilized for the burial of a portion of the High Island A5 fuel support pipeline. Accordi
A French consortium comprising three partners has secured a €3 million grant to develop and qualify subsea resident patrol technologies. The consortium is made of Ifremer, a French research institute dedicated to the ocean, FinX, a start-up specialized in bio-inspired underwater thrusters, and led b
Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has hand-picked Optime Subsea, a compatriot provider of subsea solutions for the oil & gas industry, for the delivery of the remote operated controls system (ROCS), which will be used on a big oil & gas field located in the UK waters. The ROCS system is sai
