Subsea

Olympic Subsea fleet to feature Kongsberg tech
Olympic Subsea has chosen Kongsberg Digital to install Vessel Insight across its entire fleet as a means of accessing, collecting and consolidating a full range of mission-critical data.

Express Engineering to deliver subsea actuators for Northern Lights
The UK-based Express Engineering has secured a contract to provide subsea actuators for the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage project in the North Sea.

BEHYOND project developing new offshore wind-to-hydrogen system
EDP and TechnipFMC, together with research partners, have launched a joint project to develop a conceptual engineering and economic feasibility study for a new offshore system for green hydrogen production from offshore wind power. The goal of the project – called BEHYOND and supported by the Blue G

World’s most compact 6,000 meters rated sonar comes to market
UK’s Impact Subsea has launched what is said to be the world’s most compact 6,000 meters depth-rated imaging sonar. The new addition to the ISS360 range of sonars provides a full 360° field of vision, 80 meters range capability and high-resolution imagery using CHIRP-based signaling, Impact Subsea s

Minesto seeks marine equipment recovery services
Minesto is looking for a marine contractor to carry out the recovery of subsea equipment from the seabed at the Holyhead Deep site and the disposal of the items.

France’s first offshore wind turbine undergoes survey
Forssea Robotics has completed an underwater survey of the Floatgen offshore wind turbine installed at the SEM-REV site in France. The main goal of the survey, completed in June, was to visually confirm the integrity of the mooring lines and dynamic umbilical system, besides characterizing marine gr

Seabed ecology survey scheduled at Sofia offshore wind farm
Ocean Ecology is about to start a seabed habitat survey for the proposed Sofia offshore wind farm site off the UK’S North East coast.

DEME installs cable with LNG-powered vessel
DEME’s Living Stone has successfully installed DolWin6 HVDC cable while powered by LNG, thus significantly reducing emissions.

Serica upbeat over Columbus well results ahead of tie-in
Serica Energy has achieved successful flow test results from the Columbus development well and will tie the subsea wellhead to the Arran field.

BGP buys Sercel’s new seabed nodal solution
Sercel, CGG’s seismic equipment business, has made its first major sale of the recently launched GPR300 seabed nodal solution to geophysical services provider BGP. The sale includes 18,000 nodes that will be deployed in Q4 2021 on a large-scale, long-term, multi-vessel operation in the Middle East r

DeepOcean buys into marine minerals exploration and extraction firm
Subsea services player DeepOcean is acquiring a majority stake in marine minerals exploration and extraction company ADEPTH Minerals. DeepOcean reported it had signed an agreement to invest in the Norwegian company, which will continue to operate as a standalone company and brand. According to DeepO

In focus: Bridging the gaps in hydrogen technologies
A collection of energy transition-related updates across the industry was heavily focused on hydrogen and its role in reaching net-zero goals.

Aker Solutions, Subsea 7 to supply subsea equipment for KEG project
Aker Solutions and Subsea 7 have secured subsea scope contracts with Aker BP for the Kobra East & Gekko (KEG) development located in the Alvheim area of the North Sea. Aker Solutions will provide the subsea production system for the project, including four horizontal subsea trees, three manifolds, c

Maersk rig gets more Martin Linge work
Maersk Drilling has secured an extended well intervention scope with Equinor off Norway for the low-emission rig Maersk Intrepid.