Metsähallitus, Finalnd’s administrator of state-owned land and water areas, will soon wrap up surveys of underwater flora and fauna off the coast of Korsnäs, which are part of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for a gigawatt-scale offshore wind farm. The work, being performed by the Finnish
Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) has proposed to suspend processing offshore wind survey applications until existing regulatory and technical issues are solved. The proposal comes shortly after the Ministry recommended an overhaul of its administrative system, includin
In the light of Nord Stream methane leaks, geopolitical tensions, and general global security issues, the US-based company C-Power has brought to spotlight the potential role its wave energy technology could play in protecting increasingly important remote offshore assets.
Sacgasco via its subsidiary Nido Petroleum is planning to conduct site surveys over acreage located offshore the Philippines.
Bluefield Geoservices has completed what it believes to be the deepest-ever offshore cone penetration test (CPT), carried out in water depths of more than 4,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean. Bluefield operators completed 23 seafloor CPTs to a push depth of two meters as part of an ongoing geotechnica
Blyth-headquartered seabed intervention and subsea robotics services company Pharos Offshore has secured a £7.8 million funding package from ThinCats to facilitate the purchase of new assets. The funding package is set to allow Pharos to source additional work-class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs)
ABL Group has been appointed as a marine warranty surveyor to review and approve critical marine and offshore operations on the Belbazem Project, offshore UAE.
Brazilian oil and gas company Petrobras has awarded Radix Engineering and Software with a contract to develop and maintain scientific software focused on well engineering and subsea engineering. Under the contract worth approximately $9.5 million, Radix will develop software for two lots of subsea a
The inauguration ceremony for the EuroAsia Interconnector, which will connect Israel, Cyprus and Greece with continental Europe, is scheduled to be held on Friday, 14 October. The EuroAsia Interconnector is a multi-terminal VSC-HVDC scheme that will connect the national grids of the three countries
Subsea 7’s Seven Arctic is on its way to the Black Sea to begin work on the Sakarya gas field development, described as one of the largest energy projects ever built in Türkiye. Seven Arctic is in charge of installing subsea oil and gas hardware, such as manifold structures, piles, production flexib
Petrofac has been selected by Hartshead Resources to conduct an engineering study to define an offtake route from its Southern North Sea fields.
A geotechnical site investigation campaign is set to begin at the proposed North Irish Sea Array (NISA) wind farm area offshore Ireland. The campaign will involve the deployment of seabed borehole drilling and Cone Penetration Test (CPT) equipment from a survey vessel at specific locations within th
SeeByte has integrated its SeeTrack multi-domain, command and control software into Kongsberg’s Hugin Superior autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). According to SeeByte, SeeTrack v4 offers optimal goal-based planning and interoperability with other SeeTrack users and its Open Architecture allows int
The energy company Ilmatar has started a technical seabed survey for its planned Stormskär and Väderskär offshore wind project in Finland. The technical surveys of the seabed started by Ilmatar Offshore, a subsidiary of Ilmatar Energy Oy, are within the maritime areas north of Åland that, according
