MAN Energy Solutions has secured a contract by Aker Solutions to deliver five subsea compression units for the Chevron-operated Jansz-Io Compression (J-IC) Project offshore Australia. Three Subsea HOFIM compressor units will be installed into the subsea modules, while the remaining two will serve as
CRP Subsea has delivered distributed buoyancy modules (DBMs), said to be the biggest in the world, to be used in protecting steel pipelines.
Universal Subsea Inc. (USI) has developed and deployed what is said to be the industry’s first high-density subsea equipment preservation and hydrate prevention fluid. Defender Stasis HD was formulated specifically to protect subsea tree mandrels, tree access bores, tubing head spools and similar su
Rotech Subsea has completed de-burial and post-lay trenching works on a key interconnector cable in the southern North Sea.
DEME Group’s cable-laying vessel Living Stone has completed the installation of the export cable for the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind project in the Netherlands. The cable will connect the HKZ Beta offshore platform to the Dutch mainland. According to DEME, the project included the crossing of
Norwegian energy giant Equinor started production from the Troll phase 3 project in the North Sea off Norway on Friday 27 August.
Louis Dreyfus TravOcean has commenced the installation of the inter-array cables at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. The inter-array cable installation is being carried out by cable-laying vessel Wind of Pride. Prysmian is in charge of the production and delivery of the inter-array
Unique Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AMC Search (AMCS), the training and consultancy division of the Australian Maritime College, to jointly develop a maritime industry accredited Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) Coxswain’s course. This industry-academia collaboration will s
Perma-Pipe has secured a contract from LLOG Exploration Offshore to supply 5 miles (some 8 kilometers) of subsea insulated pipeline for the Taggart project in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract scope covers overseeing engineering support, pipe coating, and supplying the FLOW-THERM pre-insulated pipe s
Survey vessels Northern Franklin and Normand Flower are set to start geophysical and geotechnical site investigation works at the Moray West offshore wind farm site at the beginning of September. Northern Franklin is scheduled to commence geophysical surveys on 4 September. The vessel will be carryi
Energy transition is bringing with it an intricate mix of options for the offshore energy and shipping sectors.
Ryder Geotechnical has completed site-specific assessment (SSA) at the turbine locations of the first two phases of the Dogger Bank offshore wind project. Ryder completed a geotechnical zonation assessment to classify the 190 turbine locations in terms of geotechnical risk to the upcoming jack-up op
Seismic surveyor PXGEO has secured a contract to carry out an ocean bottom node (OBN) project in the North Sea. The OBN marine seismic acquisition project will be carried out in the second quarter of 2022, with an approximate duration of three months. PXGEO has not revealed any other details about t
Oilfield services firm Expro has completed an integrated plug and abandonment (P&A) contract for PC Mauritania 1 Pty Ltd (PCMPL), a subsidiary of Petronas, in Mauritania. Completed in April, the well intervention scope used Expro’s integrated Open Water Intervention Riser System (OWIRS), deployed fr
