SeaBird Exploration has secured a letter of award for a source contract in South America. The contract is expected to start in Q3. The contract has a duration of about 30 – 45 days. SeaBird did not disclose the value of the contract nor the name of the client. The new contract comes a […]
Rotech Subsea has finalized a cable burial scope at the Walney offshore wind farm for Ørsted. Rotech Subsea was contracted by the global offshore wind leader to provide its TRS1LD Jet Trenching tool, equipped with HP jets, to carry out the cable burial at Walney in the Irish Sea. The subsea spread o
FarSounder has announced Ulstein Belga Marine as its newest dealer and its first in Brazil. Ulstein Belga Marine will add FarSounder’s Argos series of 3D forward-looking sonars into their product offerings. Jan Lomholdt, managing director of Ulstein Belga Marine, said: “Our strategy has been moving
TenneT has contracted eight cable suppliers to develop a new standard for a submarine cable system. The participating suppliers are: Hellenic Cables, LS Cable & System, Nexans Norway, Ningbo Orient Wires & Cables, NKT HV Cables, Prysmian Powerlink, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Zhongtian Technology
PGS seismic vessel Ramform Tethys is about to start a 3D multi-client survey offshore East Shetland, in UKCS waters. Production will start this week and the first data should be available in Q3 2020. The seismic will cover both frontier and mature areas to enable the interpretation of the internal r
Schlumberger took an $8.5 billion charge in the first quarter of the year rocked by the low oil price environment and the coronavirus pandemic.
Subsea clean energy specialists EC-OG have received £ 1.6 million from an investment consortium led by Par Equity. EC-OG will use the funds to support its growth plans of its Halo battery storage system for subsea applications. The investment will also create up to 40 jobs in Aberdeen over the next
DeepOcean’s 150-metre-long offshore construction vessel Edda Freya has arrived at Nexans Norway’s factory in Halden to load umbilical for Equinor’s Troll Phase 3 project. The Norwegian offshore contractor will install the umbillical in the North Sea later in the summer. DeepOcean’s work scope for th
Pipeshield is making headway on one of its subsea asset protection projects at UK supply base in Montrose. This week, the company completed the loadout of 350 concrete mattresses and also 34 precise rock placement units (PRPs) for a European subsea interconnector project. Pipeshield is Tekmar’s asse
Seabed Geosolutions is feeling the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its activity. A significant ongoing project in the Middle East has been cancelled and another project that was scheduled to start imminently in Brazil has been postponed. In response, Seabed will implement rigorous cost and capex
Underwater technology specialist Aquatec has signed a reseller agreement with Japanese subsea specialists SeaBreath. SeaBreath will distribute Aquatec underwater instrumentation for oceanographic research, environmental and coastal applications in the Japanese market. SeaBreath caters to the needs o
A new £40 million wharf to moor the RRS Sir David Attenborough has been completed at the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station in Antarctica. The wharf has been used by polar ships for the first time to transport staff and materials back to the UK. A specialist team of engineers, diver
Marine services provider MMA Offshore has won a contract to support foundation installation for an offshore wind project in Taiwan. To that end, MMA will use the MPSV MMA Vigilant to monitor the seabed for dredging and piling work. The company’s Vessel Operations, Subsea Services as well as Project
Chrysaor’s decommissioning program for its Ganymede platform topsides, which is located on the Jupiter area in the UK sector of the North Sea, has been approved by UK authorities.
