UK’s Xlinks has awarded Intertek with a contract to provide quality assurance and technical advice on marine cable routing, survey specification and procurement for the planned interconnector between Morocco and the UK. Intertek will work with Xlinks to review cable routing, draft survey and technic
Golden Energy Offshore Services has secured a term contract with a “first-class international operator” for the platform supply vessel (PSV) Energy Scout. The Norwegian company started the reactivation process for the vessel as it had been in warm lay-up for 16 months caused by the downturn in the m
As many countries around the world are choosing to shift away from Russian fossil fuels due to the ongoing Ukrainian crisis and turning to different sources, others are seizing the momentum and working towards securing energy independence through clean energy options.
The Dutch Porthos Offshore Transport and Storage has issued a tender for the installation of about 20 kilometers of offshore pipeline for what will be one of the largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the world. Port of Rotterdam CO2 Transport Hub and Offshore Storage (Porthos) will tr
Havfram, formerly known as Ocean Installer, has decided to extend the present contract with Solstad Offshore for the construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Vision. The firm contract will then expire on 31 December 2023 and there are no further options thereafter. Normand Vision was built for th
Aker Solutions has secured a seven-year extension of its maintenance and modifications agreement with OKEA.
Swedish energy company Vattenfall will participate in the tender for the N-7.2 offshore wind area in the German North Sea and will exercise its step-in rights if the company’s bid is not selected in the auction. Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) put the N-7.2 zone out to tender at
TechnipFMC has secured a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract with OMV Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of the Austrian oil and gas company OMV, for the subsea production system (SPS & SURF) for the Iris Hades field. The integrated FEED contract for the Iris Hades development project is val
Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT has issued a contract notice for framework agreements to provide geophysical and geotechnical surveys for offshore platforms and cable routes. TenneT TSO B.V. is appointed by the Dutch government as the offshore grid operator and is responsible for en
Cyprus Subsea Consulting Services has acquired four Seaglider autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to unlock new long-duration subsea survey and monitoring capabilities for research and commercial organizations. The four M1 Seagliders, acquired in February, make one of the largest privately-owned f
Nexans has won a contract with Ørsted and Eversource to install and protect the export cable link for the Revolution Wind Farm offshore the US East Coast. The project will connect the wind farm to the onshore grid and help Connecticut and Rhode Island states achieve ongoing commitments to develop of
McDermott International has completed a subsea campaign at the Bayu-Undan infill well Phase 3C project in the Timor Sea under its first subsea engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract with Santos. McDermott’s scope included a tieback of a single in-field well to existi
Equinor has awarded MAN Energy Solutions with a new contract to supply a subsea compressor unit for the Åsgard gas field offshore Norway in order to enhance production and extend the field’s lifetime. The order comes as the existing MAN subsea compression trains achieved 100,000 operational hours si
James Fisher has signed a seasonal charter agreement for Go Marine Group’s multi-purpose service vessel (MPSV) Go Electra, following, as the company describes, an extensive vessel research and evaluation process. The agreement will see the vessel used throughout the remainder of 2022 by James Fisher
