Danish power cable manufacturer and installation firm NKT has inaugurated its expanded medium-voltage (MV) power cable factory in Asnaes, Denmark, where production has been ongoing since 1965. The expansion works began in September 2024 and included a new production hall, new production and test fac
Azule Energy, a joint venture between Italy’s Eni and the UK’s BP, has awarded SLB OneSubsea with a contract for the supply of controls umbilicals for a project offshore Angola. The West Hub Tails project, part of the Integrated West Hub (IWH) development in Block 15/06, includes the redirection of
A carbon capture facility has been inaugurated in the Netherlands at Yara’s plant, from where CO2 will be transported by ship to Norway for permanent storage under the seabed as part of the Northern Lights project. Deemed Europe’s largest industrial carbon capture facility, it will capture up to 800
The first fully operational, pre-permitted and grid-connected wave energy test facility in the continental U.S. has opened for business. Officially opened on August 27, PacWave South is located off the coast of Newport, Oregon, and has been developed through the collaboration of the U.S. Department
The 24-meter-long unmanned surface vessel (USV) Challenger, owned by a joint venture of DeepOcean, Solstad Offshore and Østensjø Rederi, has completed its first fully remote project. GONDAN Shipbuilders started the construction of the USV in March 2024, following the order from the joint venture com
Film-Ocean, a UK-based subsea contractor providing ROV inspection and intervention services, has taken delivery of another remotely operated vehicle (ROV) from SMD, completing a major fleet investment program. This comes as Film-Ocean took delivery of two Quantum 250-hp heavy-duty work-class ROVs in
Norway’s energy company Equinor has awarded Proserv with a contract for the deployment of cable monitoring technology at the 402 MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm in the UK. Proserv’s ECG Business Unit will deploy its advanced monitoring technology to provide continuous visibility of cable and terminati
Offshore construction has started for the UK’s first offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) project as Saipem’s 325-meter-long vessel Castorone arrives in the Southern North Sea to start pipelaying. Developed some 75 kilometers east of Flamborough Head, the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) pr
Texas-headquartered offshore energy services provider Helix Energy Solutions and Hornbeck Offshore Services, a Louisiana-headquartered supplier of offshore transport services, have completed their merger, establishing what they describe as a premier integrated offshore services company. As announced
Subsea7 has won a contract with LLOG Exploration, a subsidiary of Harbour Energy, worth between $50 million and $150 million for the Who Dat East development located in the Gulf of America (U.S. Gulf of Mexico). Under the contract that Subsea7 defines as sizeable, the company will fabricate, transpo
XOCEAN has been tasked with performing geophysical survey operations, starting this month, for the 2,200 MW Western HVDC Link cable route between Hunterston, Scotland, and the Wirral, England. XOCEAN’s uncrewed survey vessels (USVs) X-05 and X-29 will be used for the geophysical inspection survey of
Jan De Nul’s extra-large cable-laying vessel (CLV) Fleeming Jenkin has started sea trials, soon to be followed by its twin, William Thomson. Jan De Nul placed an order for Fleeming Jenkin at China’s CMHI Haimen shipyard in October 2023, followed by an order for William Thomson in May the following y
The Tersan Shipyard in Türkiye has laid the keel for the cable-laying vessel (CLV) it is constructing for South Korean subsea cable installation company LS Marine Solution. LS Marine Solution and the shipyard signed a contract for the construction of the vessel in June 2025, followed by the start of
An offshore subsea construction vessel (OSCV) that Norwegian shipbuilder VARD is building for Taiwan-based Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) has been launched in Romania and will now go to Norway for final outfitting. The 121.3-meter-long vessel of VARD 3 39 design is said to be a highly versatile platform d
