Subsea
Jacket foundation for Moray East OSP1 in place
The jacket foundation for the third offshore transformer module (OTM) for Moray East offshore wind farm has been installed at the site off the Scottish coast. According to the project’s latest Notice of Operations, the jack-up vessel Seajacks Scylla installed the OSP1 jacket on 30 August. Meanwhile,
ETPM enters into joint venture with Nudge Exchange
ETPM, the Aberdeen-based subsea and marine recruitment specialist, has entered into a new joint venture with Glasgow based start-up company, Nudge Exchange. Nudge Exchange has developed a platform to connect agile companies with a flexible workforce. The technology being developed digitalises the pr
Seasystems gets LNG FSU mooring equipment deal from DSME
South Korean shipbuilder DSME has tagged Scana-owned Seasystems for the delivery of mooring equipment and analyses for two floating LNG storage units.
DEME’s trio starts working at Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm
DEME’s vessels Neptune, D’Artagnan, and Bonny River have been deployed on the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project, with some of the work now underway at the site located some 12 kilometres off the coast of the Guérande peninsula in France. The company’s cutter suction dredger D’Artagnan and trailing
Boskalis Subsea Services wraps up Perenco UK contract in North Sea
Boskalis Subsea Services has completed a multi-million-pound contract awarded by Perenco UK to support a pipeline project in the UK’s Southern North Sea basin. One of the firm’s dive support vessels (DSV) the Boka Da Vinci, was mobilised to replace a 29-metre section of pipeline, which delivers hydr
Tekmar adds two new management team members
Tekmar Energy, a Tekmar Group company, has appointed Marc Bell as director of Operations and Leanne Wilkinson as finance director. Marc is an industry professional with over 20 years technical and operational management experience. Marc previously held positions as director of Operations with JDR Ca
Ramboll to assist TU Braunschweig with marine life research
The Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany has awarded Ramboll with a contract to assist in developing a research device that will study marine growth on offshore wind turbines. The university’s Leichtweiß Institute for Hydraulic Engineering is planning to build a large-scale saltwater flow
Advanced Insulation invests in new facility due to increase in subsea demand
Advanced Insulation has invested over £8 million pounds in a new facility in Gloucester, due to the steadily increasing demand for its subsea buoyancy products. The company recently signed a ten-year lease for a new 65,000sq ft factory close to its UK head office. The expansion into the new unit wil
Shearwater gets CGG 3D survey award in Norway
Shearwater GeoServices has received an award by CGG for a 3D survey in Norway. The Northern Viking Graben (NVG) multi-client survey, which has already started, will take approximately one month to complete. The survey is being conducted by the SW Amundsen. “We are pleased to see this award which wil
JDR loads out Kriegers Flak inter-array cables
JDR Hartlepool has completed the manufacturing and load-out of inter-array cables for the Danish Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm, the company reported via social media. Vattenfall awarded JDR with the inter-array cable contract in 2019. The company is supplying 170 kilometres of 33 kV cables for th
Hornsea Two offshore wind farm connected to land
Cable pull-in for the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm’s export line has been completed at the project’s landfall site at Lincolnshire’s Horseshoe Point beach. The operation, carried out by Boskalis’ cable laying vessel Ndurance, involved installing 2.4 kilometres of cable under water and toward the c
Triton Knoll foundations and export cables in place
All turbine foundations and export cables have been installed at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK. According to project developer RWE, the installation of the 90 monopile foundations and two lengths of 50km export cable was completed this week. Seaway 7’s Seaway Strashnov and DEME’s Inn
Tetra Tech ads Unmanned Surface Vessel from USS
Tetra Tech’s Marine Services Division has taken delivery of an Inception Class MKII Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) with a bespoke cooling system and two additional survey instrumentation pods for harbour survey projects. The first payload pod has been fitted out with an R2SONIC 2020, SBG Ekinox-D, Va
GC Rieber delivers Polar King to new owner
GC Rieber Shipping has delivered IMR vessel Polar King to the new owner. The company entered into the sale agreement for the vessel last week. GC Rieber did not reveal the name of the buyer. The Polar King is a multipurpose subsea vessel specially capable of execution operations under severe weather