The Basque Government has allocated a grant to a project dedicated to developing floating wind operation and maintenance technologies, including underwater image recognition technology for subsea asset integrity. The Integrated solutions for Floating Wind O&M through the development of new technolog
The 87-meter long TEK Ocean Spirit has commenced what is described as the largest subsea engineering survey at the site of the Marinus Link interconnector in Australia. The 32 expert crew aboard the survey vessel left from the Port of Burnie on 11 February and will take four to six weeks to survey t
Norwegian vessel owner Solstad Offshore has secured contracts within the renewable energy sector for three of its subsea construction support vessels (CSVs). Normand Cutter is in charge of carrying out a 110-day firm contract for a cable project in Northern Europe. Work is set to commence this month
UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has granted InterMoor, the lead brand for Acteon’s mooring and anchors segment, a Fit for Offshore Renewables status. Fit 4 Offshore Renewables (F4OR) is a programme that verifies that UK service providers are equipped and have the key management systems
Aberdeen-headquartered Boskalis Subsea Services has opened a new regional project office at the Port of Sunderland. Boskalis Subsea Services said it will use the base to expand the presence of its business vessel operations in the UK, as it looks to cater for growing demand for its offshore, IRM, co
Sumitomo Electric Industries has received a limited notice to proceed (LNTP) from Samsung C&T Corporation to deliver a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable for what will be the first of its kind submarine HVDC network in the Middle East. Under the $200 million deal, Sumitomo will deliver its 400
Aker BP is planning to drill 13 exploration wells this year while also working to develop several projects in Norway, including a new Alvheim tieback.
Louis Dreyfus TravOcean (LDTVO) plans to start the second inter-array cable installation campaign at the Saint-Nazaire wind farm offshore France in mid-March. Back in September 2018, a consortium of LDTVO and Prysmian officially secured a contract for the supply and installation of inter-array cable
French energy major TotalEnergies is withdrawing from its operated project located in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
Hydrographic and geophysical surveys are set to start on the proposed Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon Extension offshore wind projects in March. The vessel Ocean Research is expected to begin the work around 1 March offshore the North Norfolk coast. Activities will continue for an estimated 120 days, e
Nexans High Voltage laboratory has carried out a 420 kV HVAC electrical type test with the use of g3 inside the termination, a gas said to have significantly reduced impact on the environment compared to the most commonly used SF6. According to Nexans, sulphur hexafluoride gas (SF6) has been extensi
The ITSASDRONE, an Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) developed by Spanish research institute AZTI, has completed the first sea trials ahead of deployment at BiMEP to monitor Wello’s Penguin wave energy device.
Researchers at the University of Malta have kicked off research to assess how the significant amounts of CO2 available from carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities may support offshore energy storage systems co-located within the same footprint of wind farms. The Investigating the thermal perfor
TGS has commenced an extensive 2D-cubed seismic reprocessing project off the east coast of India in support of the country’s license round schedule. The project includes over 250,000-line kilometers of existing 2D data across an area of over half a million square kilometers. This new dataset offers
