Anbaric Development Partners has concluded the second set of oceanographic survey activities for its Boardwalk Power Link (BPL) project which will connect offshore wind energy to New Jersey’s onshore grid. Led by ESS Group in concert with Ocean Surveys, the two sets of surveys looked specifically at
Giant oilfield services provider Schlumberger and NOV have started a collaboration to accelerate automated drilling solutions adoption by oil and gas operators and drilling contractors.
Norwegian seismic firm TGS has commenced the multi-client Phase 4 3D survey in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. The survey is taking place in the western portion of the Santos Basin and works as a northwest extension of the existing TGS Santos 3D, covering approximately 5,000 square kilometers. The
NKT is investing more than €150 million in the expansion of its high-voltage power cable production sites and logistics to execute on a record high order backlog. The investment program will see a new high-voltage power cable test center in Cologne, Germany, and the construction of a new extrusion t
Van Oord has placed an order with Demcon Unmanned Systems for its second autonomous survey vessel. The move comes after Van Oord deployed its first unmanned survey vessel VO:X Metiri last year at projects in the Netherlands. According to the Dutch company, the idea for VO:X Metiri originated in its
Petrofac has secured a contract with BP to develop operational procedures for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project in Mauritania and Senegal.
Ultra Deep Solutions (UDS) has secured a subsea decommissioning project with MPF Asia in Thailand.
CGG has secured a contract by Equinor to carry out ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic imaging at the Bacalhau offshore field in Brazil. The project is already underway at CGG’s subsurface imaging center in Rio de Janeiro where its team is employing proprietary imaging technologies to address pre-salt i
Archer has signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire DeepWell based on an enterprise value of NOK 177 million.
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Polish GAZ-SYSTEM is carrying out final preparations to begin laying the offshore gas pipeline for the Baltic Pipe project in the Baltic Sea. Drilling of a tunnel for the gas pipeline began in April on the Polish coast, with similar work set to start soon in Denmark, GAZ-SYSTEM said. Allseas will wo
The first ship ever sailed to the future energy island in the Danish North Sea on Monday, 3 May. MMT’s Relume will undertake seabed mapping at the site which will ensure that the construction of the energy island and the hundreds of wind turbines takes place in a technically sustainable way, Energin
Nexans’ new cable-laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Aurora has commenced its sea trials off the Norwegian coast. Nexans Aurora began the yard sea trial on 3 May and continued with the technical sea trial on 5 May. Ulstein Verft said that the sea trial will continue for a few more days, after which the yard
MMA Offshore has secured a contract with OMV New Zealand to support the decommissioning works of three wells in the Maui field. MMA’s engineering team has developed a number of engineered connector recovery and wellhead cap replacement components to replace the existing capping mechanisms in place o
