Subsea
Repsol Sinopec preparing for decommissioning of UK North Sea field
Repsol Sinopec has received approval from the UK authorities for preparation work scopes relating to the decommissioning of the Fulmar and Auk North installations.
Osprey Group bags Moray East OWF contract
The Osprey Group has won a contract to provide handling and storage services for the spare export cable for the Moray East offshore wind farm. Under the contract, the company will receive and store approximately 2,500 metres of subsea cable and approximately 1,500 metres of HDD cable to be received
New managing director for Seatronics
Acteon’s marine technology company Seatronics has appointed Derek Donaldson as its new Group managing director. Donaldson joined Seatronics in 2008 as vice president Asia Pacific, where he established Seatronics Pte as the regions key supplier. Following this success, Seatronics promoted him into th
Prysmian picks First Subsea CPS for Fécamp offshore wind farm
First Subsea has won the contract to provide the cable protection systems (CPSs) for the inter-array cables at the 71-turbine Fécamp wind farm offshore Normandy, France. Prysmian Group will manufacture and deliver the inter-array cables for the project. The Italian cable maker selected First Subsea
McDermott to support Tata Steel’s Dutch CCS vision
McDermott has won a pre front-end engineering design (FEED) contract from Tata Steel B.V. for the Enhancing Value by Emissions Reuse and Emission Storage (EVEREST) Project. Specifically, Tata Steel has launched the preparatory plans for a project to capture CO2 from its blast furnaces in IJmuiden, t
Subsea 7 taps Mammoet for SCR and umbilical pull-in project in Gulf of Mexico
Dutch-based Mammoet has secured a steel catenary riser (SCR) and umbilical pull-in contract from Subsea 7. The scope of work included in this contract is for engineering, procurement, fabrication and offshore pull-in operations. The SCR and umbilical pull-in operations will take place at Mississippi
DeepOcean to wind down cable laying and trenching units in UK
Subsea services player DeepOcean has started a restructuring process in relation to three UK subsidiaries in its Cable Laying and Trenching business (“CL&T Group”), which will enable the CL&T Group to be wound down on a solvent basis. DeepOcean 1 UK, DeepOcean Subsea Cables and Enshore Subsea have f
Ithaca moves forward with plans to develop North Sea field as subsea tie-back
Ithaca Energy is moving forward with its plans to develop the Abigail field, located in the UK North Sea as a subsea tie-back.
Shell and Ocean Infinity form seep hunting pact
Oil and gas major Shell has partnered with marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity to combine expertise and assets to execute multiclient seep hunting projects. The companies believe that combination of Shell’s specialist seep hunting expertise and Ocean Infinity’s ‘Armada’ fleet of robotic ships, will
New platform seeks data to reduce subsea cable failures
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has invited the offshore wind sector to sign up to a world-first data collection platform that aims to vastly reduce subsea cable failures. ELECTRODE will track cable failure trends and service downtime, as well as the effectiveness of current methods of
Mocean Energy bags £850K to bring green power to subsea oil and gas
The Edinburgh-based start-up Mocean Energy has secured a major investment to advance the design of its Blue Star wave energy device, and drive its adoption in subsea oil and gas sector.
Tenaris know-how for future hydrogen pipeline network
Tenaris line pipe technology team is working on the latest generation of products for HyLINE, a four-year project that looks to build safe pipeline infrastructure for hydrogen transportation. SINTEF and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) launched the HyLINE project in 2019. To
Prysmian signs Sofia export cable deal
Prysmian Group has signed a preferred bidder agreement with RWE Renewables for the development of the high voltage submarine and land export cable connection for the Sofia offshore wind project in the UK. Prysmian will be responsible for the design, supply, offshore route preparation, installation,
First guide for safer subsea mining
Classification and technical advisory body ABS has recently published the ‘Guide for Subsea Mining’. The guide details Class requirements for the design, construction, installation as well as survey of mobile offshore mining units. It comes as global interest in resources on the sea floor grows to s