One of the largest construction support vessels (CSVs) in the Solstad fleet has won a contract award that will keep it fully committed until the end of 2027. As Solstad Maritime (SOMA) reported, the CSV Normand Sentinel secured the award with an international subsea contractor for operations worldwi
Norway’s state-owned oil & gas giant Equinor has awarded DeepOcean with a contract for subsea construction and installation activities for a project that aims to extend the production life of an oil & gas field operational since 1992. DeepOcean’s scope of work includes the installation of a subsea s
Cyprus-headquartered SeaBird Exploration, a wholly owned subsidiary of SED Energy Holdings, has secured a contract extension for its source vessel for work in the Western Hemisphere. The three-month contract extension for the 2009-built Fulmar Explorer, which joined the company’s fleet in 2019, will
Marine robotics company Ocean Infinity is set to begin a geotechnical survey later this month for Eastern Green Link (EGL5), the UK’s fifth subsea electricity superhighway that would connect Scotland and England. The marine survey activities for the 2 GW EGL5 are expected to commence on November 23
Italy’s Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) has won a €8.5 million contract with compatriot engineering, drilling, and construction services giant Saipem for survey and support to installation activities for an offshore gas project in North Africa. NextGeo will deploy the vessels NG Worker and NG Surveyor t
Greece’s Asso.subsea has placed an order with a firm headquartered in Finland for an Integrated Automation System (IAS) to be delivered for its DP 2 cable-laying vessel (CLV) currently being built in China. Valmet will supply its automation technology for the vessel named Althea, which the China Mer
Norwegian vessel owner DOF Group has secured a three-year firm, with two-year options, contract with UK-headquartered energy giant BP for subsea services in the Atlantic region. DOF said it would deploy a high-capability subsea vessel to support BP with subsea construction, installation, repair, and
Norway’s marine construction and operations player Ocean Installer, a wholly owned subsidiary of Moreld Group, has secured a contract defined as large with compatriot oil & gas player Vår Energi for the Balder Next development. Under the contract that is expected to bring NOK 1-2 billion ($98-$196 m
Preliminary seismic and geotechnical surveys of the seabed have been completed at the Baltic East offshore wind farm site in the Polish Baltic Sea. Preliminary seabed surveys for the Baltic East project began at the end of June and lasted over 15 weeks, said Orlen Group, the developer of the offshor
Air Liquide, CentraleSupélec, ITP Interpipe, Nexans, and RTE have joined forces to develop a project that connects distant offshore wind farms to shore via a High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) superconducting transmission system. The SupraMarine demonstrator project will study the electrical co
The aftship of NKT’s new cable-laying vessel (CLV) NKT Eleonora has arrived at another Vard shipyard in Romania to be connected to the foreship and superstructure. To remind, NKT Eleonora entered the water for the first time in mid-October following the launch of its aftship at VARD’s shipyard in Br
Florida-headquartered marine environmental consulting firm CSA Ocean Sciences (CSA) has performed an environmental baseline survey (EBS) off the coast of Mozambique for what it says is a major oil & gas company. CSA’s project scope included water column profiling, environmental sampling, seafloor im
French provider of tubular solutions Vallourec has secured the renewal of a multi-year contract with an undisclosed operator in the North Sea for the supply of oil country tubular good (OCTG) products, accessories, and integrated services. Vallourec said it was in charge of providing logistics, main
The China Merchants Heavy Industry shipyard has begun the construction of a DP 2 cable-laying vessel (CLV) ordered by Greece’s Asso.subsea for the offshore wind market. The steel-cutting ceremony for Althea was held today, November 5, at the CMHI shipyard on Mazhou Island, Shenzhen, China. “The firs
