Floating production and subsea specialist Crondall Energy is growing its subsea pipelines team with the appointment of Katya Murray who joins as a senior consultant. Murray has years of experience working within multi-disciplinary Energy Consultancies, Design Offices and Operator environments in dif
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LNG supplier Nauticor and Fassmer are cooperating on newbuilding and retrofitting projects for ships with LNG engines. The first project to be conducted under the new cooperation was the commissioning and initial LNG bunkering of the research vessel “Atair” at the Fassmer shipyard. Fassmer was award
The subsea rock installation vessel Bravenes’ propulsion system will be expanded by a second set of propellers from Schottel. The vessel, built in 2017 for Van Oord, will be more flexible in its range of applications following the propulsion upgrade. Originally already equipped with two Schottel Rud
Transmission system operator TenneT is looking to construct 2 AC grid connection systems to link the offshore wind farms Kaskasi II and Gode Wind 3 to the associated HVDC sea stations. The tender call has been issued for all works from design to manufacturing, delivery and installation up to operati
JFD has expanded its Hyperbaric Rescue Facility (HRF) rental capacity in Singapore with a 12-man portable HRF. The HRF will be available from April 2020 onwards, the company informed through social media. The HRF will supplement the existing JFD offering, consisting of a fixed HRF at National Hyperb
Saga Subsea has, with its parent company Viking Kystservice, purchased a vessel to be utilized for inshore and nearshore marine operations. The vessel is specially built for survey and ROV operations but it has also been customized as a AUV support vessel on previous campaigns. Currently located at
CGG’s Geoscience division has secured a contract renewal by Total, for the continued operation of its Dedicated Processing Center (DPC) in Pau, France. The new contract will run for five years starting in January 2020. The two companies have been working in close collaboration at the DPC since 2006.
PGS has delivered final data for the Mawson multi-client 3D seismic survey covering North Carnarvon Basin of Australia. The Mawson 3D survey applied triple-source GeoStreamer 3D survey design and delivers seismic data with prestack AVO/AVA fidelity to image the deep Triassic fault blocks of the Oute
Norwegian contractor Reach Subsea said it has been awarded several contracts and call-offs under frame agreements for 2020 execution, representing about 200 project days. The projects involve both inspection, survey and light construction work across Europe and America, for operators in the oil & ga
Well-Safe Solutions has awarded a contract to Schlumberger for the provision of plug and abandonment well services. The scope includes the supply of cementing service, wireline services, wellbore fluid services and fishing, milling and swarf recovery services. The work will be aboard the company’s f
Subsea equipment solutions specialist Ashtead Technology has completed subsea installation monitoring work to support the Northern Lights Carbon Capture Storage project (CCS) in the North Sea. Developed by Equinor in partnership with Shell and Total, the Northern Lights project is the first of its k
Northrop Grumman has signed its first non-exclusive agreement to manufacture niobium-based connectors, the NiobiCon, a new way of making electrical connections underwater. NiobiCon enables power transfer and data exchange underwater without using seals, oil or moving parts. This technology was devel
Norwegian ocean bottom node seismic company Axxis Geo Solutions (AGS) has received notice of resignation from board member Tore Tonseth. Tore A. Tonseth was appointed director of AGS effective December 1, 2019. Tonseth is a Norwegian citizen with knowledge and experience from the financial industry.
