Subsea and offshore solutions provider, Unique Group has acquired Australian company Western Advance’s Marine Division and appointed Chris Forde as its new regional vice-president. Western Advance’s integration with Unique Group ties in with the Group’s strategy to enhance its portfolio of autonomou
Mermaid Maritime has incorporated an indirect wholly owned subsidiary – Mermaid Subsea Services in the United Kingdom (MSS UK) on 7 February 2020. The Singapore-listed company said it intends to utilize MSS UK as a vehicle to expand the provision of its subsea and related services into the North Sea
Australia-based Searcher Seismic has completed its offshore Peru OpenSeis 2D & 3D seismic dataset as part of its offshore Peru multi-client campaign. The ‘Offshore Peru OpenSeis Seismic Dataset’ consists of both 2D and 3D vintage seismic data which has been rectified in a post-stack reprocessing met
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (February 03 – February 09). https://subseaworldnews.com/2020/02/07/saipem-nets-over-500-million-in-contracts/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2020/02/07/red-ink-for-aker-solutions/ https://subseaworldnews
Saipem has won a number of contracts in various countries, mostly related to subsea work, worth over $500 million.
Norwegian services player Aker Solutions booked Q4 2019 loss of NOK 148 million, against profit of NOK 178 million in the prior-year comparable period. The result was impacted by restructuring and impairment costs as well as ‘very competitive market’ and contracts taking longer to be awarded. Loss p
Dutch survey specialist Fugro has recently started a site survey in support of i3 Energy’s planned 2020 drilling program in the UK North Sea. The survey is expected to conclude during February and covers the remaining areas of Serenity and Liberator West’s Minos High structures not covered by i3’s 2
IRM subsea services expert N-Sea has delivered over 200 continuous days of air and saturation diving program in the Red Sea. Awarded by a supermajor operating in the MENA region, the multi-level, twin bell operations started in July 2019. Deployed via dive support vessel the Lichtenstein, the on-goi
German developer Innogy has marked the beginning of the first phase of Sofia offshore wind farm’s six-month site investigation as the vessel Fugro Pioneer left the Port of Sunderland to survey the project’s 220-kilometre export cable corridor. As part of this phase, both geophysical and geotechnical
Ningbo Orient Cable (NBO) said it has recently been awarded the 15.8-kilometer LH 29-2 deep-sea SPS umbilical project by CNOOC Deepwater Development. This is the first deep-water static umbilical project (800 meters water depth, 9 super duplex SS tubes) which realize the production localization in C
Denmark-based subsea technology company MacArtney has announced it plans to focus on improving and strengthening the Group’s overall scalability to support future development, after reporting positively on the 2018/19 financial year. MacArtney said that its 2018/19 financials demonstrate a growing t
Stress Engineering Services (SES) has entered into an agreement with Optimum Program to form the RiGUARD joint venture. RiGUARD combines SES’ offshore drilling analytics expertise with the Optimum Program data-driven drilling riser maintenance program that delivers drilling riser condition-based mai
Subsea systems technology specialist Interventek has been awarded a multi-million-pound contract to supply three 10,000psi in-riser landing string completion systems for an international OEM client. With this and other new business wins over the last twelve months valued in excess of £10 million, In
ROV, tooling and equipment specialist Aleron has agreed a partnership deal with Norway-based connector specialist Blue Logic. The deal will see the company, based just outside Aberdeen, Scotland, provide the UK North Sea subsea market with a service hub for Blue Logic’s subsea technologies, which pr
