Longitude Engineering, part of LOC Group, has provided the concept and basic design services for Woen Jinn Harbor Engineering’s new DP2 cable-laying vessel that will service the Taiwanese offshore wind market. Longitude Engineering also provided construction specifications for yard engagement and pr
Roxtec UK is increasing its presence in Britain’s maritime sector with the appointment of Mark Whelan as a new marine and offshore manager. Whelan will have responsibility for business development in the south of England. Mark Whelan joins the Swedish-owned company having spent 10 years at another i
UK clean energy technology innovator Enertechnos said it has raised £5 million in a Series A funding round. The round secured further 30 per cent backing by existing investors. The remainder were provided by individual investors, including energy and engineering specialists alongside former cabinet
Subsea digitalisation specialist WFS Technologies has welcomed a former Formula 1 engineer as head of engineering and projects. Colin Drysdale takes up the post and will be responsible for leading the delivery of projects at WFS. Drysdale was previously head of technical projects at McLaren responsi
SMP has received an order to supply a bespoke diving system for a Turkish shipyard. The system contains a 20ft containerised decompression chamber, a 20ft machinery container with a 10ft containerised dive control, a single basket LARS and 4×50 ltr scuba replacement package (SRP). The 1.8m deck deco
Denmark’s energy operator Energinet has selected consulting engineering group Ramboll for cable route survey as part of the KBH02 ‘København02’ project. The city development of the Danish capital, Copenhagen, is expanding offshore with the aim to create artificial islands for housing and commercial
Shearwater GeoServices has secured a contract from Apache for a 4D seismic survey with 3D extension over the Forties field. The Apache-operated Forties oil field is located 110 miles north-east of Aberdeen in the UK sector of the Central North Sea. The project will start in Q2 2020 and should last f
TDI-Brooks, under contract to TGS, has completed the offshore multibeam phase offshore the Niger Delta. This survey took place in water depths of 750 to 3,500 metres. It is also Nigeria’s first regional multi-client multibeam and seafloor sampling study. TDI-Brooks’ R/V Gyre acquired 82,000 square k
Geoquip Marine is set to begin geotechnical surveys in the northern portion of the Vineyard Wind Lease Area around 20 May. The geotechnical data acquisition company will be conducting surveys from its vessel Geoquip Saentis for four to six weeks. Geoquip Marine Group carried out a geotechnical surve
GC Rieber Shipping has seen its quarterly loss widened on Subsea & Renewables fleet impairment as a result of current market. Namely, the company recognised an impairment of its Subsea & Renewables fleet in Q1 2020 of NOK 293.3 million. As a result, GC Rieber booked loss of NOK 301.6 million, agains
Nexans has completed the repair of a 95 kilometre subsea high voltage cable linking Malta with Sicily. The Interconnector cable suffered a damage at the end of 2019 by a ship anchor. Nexans mobilized its IMR team to help Enemalta find the damage location and confirm the nature of the fault. In the f
Netherlands-based SeaMar Group has secured a new six-month contract from MMT for the offshore support vessel Deep Helder. Deep Helder is a DP2 offshore survey and ROV vessel with 50 berths. The 61-metre-long vessel is suitable for seabed surveys in water depths of 10–2000 metres. The vessel is also
A multi-user, planned transmission system to harness wind power off New England’s coast could result in onshore electric grid cost savings of over $ 1 billion and significantly reduce environmental impacts, a report prepared for transmission developer Anbaric shows. The report, Offshore Transmission
Oslo-listed SeaBird has recognized net loss of $0.3 million for Q1 2020, against net loss of $0.4 million in the same period in 2019. SeaBird recorded revenues of $25.3 million in Q1, a 105 per cent increase compared to $12.3 million in Q1 2019. Significant part of revenues in Q1 2020 relates to a 3
