Subsea
Seaway Heavy Lifting Renames Two Crane Vessels
Seaway Heavy Lifting, a specialist offshore contractor and operator of two heavy lift vessels ‘Stanislav Yudin’ and ‘Oleg Strashnov’, has renamed the vessels to ‘Seaway Yudin’ and ‘Seaway Strashnov’. The Seaway Yudin is a crane vessel equipped with a 2,500 tonnes revolving crane, a 500 tonnes auxili
Neptune Submits Duva and Gjøa P1 Development Plans
Neptune Energy has submitted Plans for Development and Operation (PDOs) to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for the Duva and Gjøa P1 projects in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The fields will be developed as subsea tie-backs connecting two templates to the nearby Gjøa platform, operated
N-Sea Bags Two Contracts in North Sea
Subsea services provider N-Sea has been awarded two contracts with undisclosed clients. Managed and supported by N-Sea’s Aberdeen base, the first is a three-year contract, awarded by an international operator. The work scope will take place across a number of the operator’s UK North Sea assets and i
AML Oceanographic Delivers MVP for New Swedish Research Vessel
AML Oceanographic has supplied a Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP) for the new Swedish research vessel ‘RV Svea’. The newbuild vessel, owned by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), will be used by the university and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) for a vari
DEME Integrates Its Subsidiaries into DEME Offshore
DEME Group has integrated activities of its subsidiaries GeoSea, Tideway, A2Sea and EverSea into the DEME Offshore activity line. By integrating all of the offshore activities, expertise and capabilities into one organisation, DEME will be able to fulfil the future requirements of its customers, the
Subsea Setback for TechnipFMC
TechnipFMC has reported fourth-quarter 2018 loss of $2.26 billion or $5 per diluted share. The UK-based energy services giant booked total quarterly after-tax charges and credits of $2,22 billion, or $4.91 per diluted share. Major part of these charges included asset impairments (of close to $1.7 bi
Oceaneering Lands Tyra Redevelopment Deal from Total
Oceaneering International has received a two-year integrity management contract from Total E&P Denmark (Total) to support its Tyra Redevelopment project in the Danish North Sea. Oceaneering’s scope includes the full development of Tyra’s integrity management program, developing risk-based assessment
Greenlink Wins €3.6M EU Funding
Greenlink Interconnector has been awarded a €3.6-million funding by the European Commission to finance the development of the project. Greenlink was selected for a grant in the field of trans-European energy infrastructure under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Energy). Simon Ludlam, Project Dire
First Steel Cut on Nexans CS Aurora
The construction of Nexans’ new DP3 cable laying vessel CS Aurora is progressing with the cutting of the first steel. The hull is being built at Crist, Poland, while the engineering, outfitting and system integration, equipment preparations, testing, sea trials and finalising will be carried out at
Kraken Robotics Bags Ocean Infinity Order
Kraken Robotics has received $1.7 million purchase orders from Ocean Infinity for the AquaPix Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) sensors and support. Product delivery is expected during Q1 and Q2, 2019. According to the company, this is the second set of purchase orders from Ocean Infinity under an init
Marlinks to Monitor Northwester 2 Burial Depth of Cables
Marlinks has secured a contract from Northwester 2 and Nexans to monitor the burial depth of six infield cables and one export cable of the Northwester 2 offshore wind farm in Belgium. Both the export and infield cables will be equipped with Marlinks’ distributed temperature sensing (DTS) measuremen
New Operations Manager Joins Namaka Subsea
Namaka Subsea has appointed Alan Melia as operations manager of the company. Alan has nearly 40 years’ experience in the diving industry. He joins Namaka Subsea from IMCA, where he held the position of technical manager. Alan has, during the course of his career, also held positions such as offshore
Wood Nets Equinor EPCI Deal for Vigdis IOR Project
Wood has received a contract from Equinor, worth $13 million, to deliver engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) services to the Vigdis boosting station increased oil recovery (IOR) project. Wood will provide topside modifications to enable the tie-in of subsea equipment to o
Reach Subsea Narrows Losses
Reach Subsea has reduced its quarterly deficit for the period ended December 31, 2018, as revenues hiked some 70 percent on increased activity against the same quarter last year. For the fourth quarter 2018, the Norwegian contractor booked loss of NOK 6.3 million on revenues of NOK 191 million, vers