Subsea
Trelleborg Cable Guards for Ørsted’s Taiwan OWF Project
Trelleborg has won a contract from Ørsted to provide NjordGuard cable protection system, for the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan. The company will provide 235 NjordGuard cable protection systems and bellmouths, which will protect all inter-array and export cables on the project
Damen and Bakker Sliedrecht to Build New Mining Vessel for De Beers
Damen Shipyards Group and Bakker Sliedrecht have joined forces in the construction of a new complex offshore diamond mining vessel for De Beers Marine Namibia. The two companies signed a cooperation agreement for the project Additional Mining Vessel 3 (AMV 3) in Rotterdam. The e-integrator and shipb
Rever Offshore Extends DSV Topaz Charter
Rever Offshore has extended a charter of the multi-role diving support vessel (DSV) Rever Topaz for three-years. The contract will see Rever Offshore secure exclusive and uninterrupted access to this asset from long-term partner Volstad Maritime until December 2022, with flexible options to further
Fugro Extends Skandi Carla Charter
Fugro has extended the firm period of hire for the Skandi Carla time charter contract until end October 2020, the Oslo-listed DOF Subsea said on Tuesday. Skandi Carla is a purpose-designed and built ROV survey, IRM and construction support vessel. The 84 meters long vessel with accommodation for 80
Apply and Aker Solutions Win Var Energi Contract
Vår Energi has signed frame agreements with Apply Sørco and Aker Solutions for modifications and maintenance support for the company’s operated assets. The frame agreements, which cover operation, maintenance, modification and engineering services, have a duration of three years with options for a t
Xodus Adds Two Recruits to Its Environment Division
Xodus Group is set to almost double its global environment division with recent appointment of two new recruits in Aberdeen. Jonathan Ashburner has joined as cables and interconnectors lead while Gill Rodger returns to Xodus as the head of governance and assurance. Qualifying as a marine mammal biol
CSV Polar King Stays with Nexans Until Summer 2020
Nexans Skagerrak, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexans Norway, has declared a charter extension for the CSV Polar King with GC Rieber Shipping. The five-month extension makes the charter firm until July 2020. This comes after the previous charter extension by four months, announced in October. The ex
N-Sea-BODAC Joint Venture Invests Further in UXO Provision
The N-Sea-BODAC joint venture has made an investment in the further development of its specialist UXO provision. Formed in 2016, the joint venture (JV) has demonstrated year-on-year commercial growth. In that time, it has built a formidable track record in UXO survey, identification and disposal, co
Shearwater Shoots Seismic for Shell in Black Sea
Shearwater GeoServices has secured a seismic acquisition contract by Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) in the Black Sea. The survey covers an area of approximately 600 sqkm in the western Black Sea. The one-month project will start in Q4 2019 and will be conducted by the Polar Empress. “We are very pleased
Weatherford Makes Management Changes
Weatherford International has appointed Christian Garcia as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective January 06, 2020. He will take over from Christoph Bausch who will step down as executive vice president and chief financial officer on November 14, 2019 to pursue other opport
Royal IHC Preps Reel Lay System for Shanghai Salvage
Royal IHC has hit a milestone in the design and build of an integrated 550t reel lay system for Shanghai Salvage. It will be the first reel lay system in the Chinese market and moreover, it will be one of the largest and most sophisticated reel lay systems worldwide. Namely, this month, the tower an
ExxonMobil Gets Approval for Assets Sale to Vår Energi
ExxonMobil has received approval from European Commission to sell its non-operated upstream assets in Norway to Vår Energi, a company owned by Eni and HitecVision. The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would raise no competition concerns given the companies’ moderate combined market
PGS to Support Seabed 2030 Project
From 2020, all vessels in the PGS fleet will share bathymetry information collected using echo sounders, with The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. The project aims to map the entire ocean floor by the year 2030. The bathymetric data will support Seabed 2030’s crowdsourced bathymetry init
Highlights of the Week
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