Subsea
MacArtney Germany Supplies Equipment to Geo Group
MacArtney Germany has supplied multibeam echo sounder systems to Geo Group for hydrographic and geophysical surveys. The deliveries made by MacArtney have been distributed to four GEO subsidiaries. Geo Ingenieurservice Süd has taken delivery of Teledyne Reson SeaBat T50-P, SBG Ekinox2D, Valeport SVP
James Fisher Adds ‘Excavation Plus’ Offering
James Fisher Subsea Excavation (JFSE), a part of James Fisher and Sons, has launched an integrated services package to deliver improved time and cost efficiencies to its clients worldwide. As part of the ‘Excavation Plus’ offering, JFSE is the single point of contact for a range of areas including p
Nord Stream 2 Gets Green Light for Finnish EEZ
Nord Stream 2 AG has received consent for the use of the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) for the construction of the planned natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Finnish Government approved the 374-kilometers-long section running through Finnish EEZ outside territorial waters. The EEZ perm
Nexans Completes Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm Export Cable
Nexans has completed the manufacturing of the 220 kV offshore cable for the high voltage power export connection for 588 MW Beatrice offshore wind farm. The cable has been loaded onto the Skagerrak cable laying vessel for the journey across the North Sea to the Moray Firth, where it will be installe
Fincantieri Delivers New Oceanographic Vessel to IMR
Fincantieri has delivered oceanographic icebreaker vessel ‘Kronprins Haakon’ to the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), the Norwegian governmental body for oceanographic research and fishing. With a gross tonnage of 9,000 tons, more than 100 meters long, 21 wide and a speed up to 15 knots, the vesse
MMT Extends Stril Explorer Charter with Møkster
Simon Møkster Shipping has secured charter contract extension for Multi Purpose Support Vessel (MPSV) Stril Explorer from MMT AB. The vessel has been on contract to MMT since April 2014, and now the contract has been extended for further 18 months. The vessel will be used in various survey related p
Archer Lands $768 Million Statoil Deal
Statoil has confirmed a four-year firm contract to Archer for the provision of “drilling services fixed platforms” on a total of 12 platforms located on the NCS. The contract award includes three contract extension options of two years each. The contract is effective from October 1, 2018 following a
Aker Solutions and Kvaerner Team Up for More Johan Sverdrup Work
Aker Solutions and Kvaerner together secured a letter of intent for modifications of the riser platform and field center of the Statoil-operated Johan Sverdrup development, Norway’s largest oil find in more than three decades. The contract value is NOK 3.4 billion (approximately $435 million) and wi
EC-OG Appoints Non-Executive Board Director
EC-OG has appointed Alan Christie to the role of non-executive director on the EC-OG board. Alan has 36 years’ experience in the oil & gas industry, beginning his career at Schlumberger where he worked in operations performing field work. His career then took him to work for Shell in their well serv
IMCA Updates Lifting Operations Guidance
The International Marine Contractors Association’s (IMCA) has issued revised ‘Guidelines for Lifting Operations’ after an extensive review of all sections of the document, and added appendices on subsea lifts, diving operations, lifting personnel, lifting at extreme heights and dismantlement of offs
IMCA Adds Helix’s Executive to Its Board
The international Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has appointed Stephen Sheppard to its board. Sheppard is a diving manager at Helix Well Ops (UK) Ltd, which has been a strong supporter of IMCA. He has industry experience in diving operations and is known as an industry expert in diving health
Fugro Gears for Hollandse Kust Noord Survey
Fugro is set to begin a site characterization program at the Hollandse Kust (noord) Wind Farm zone. Carried out under a further contract for the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl, part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy), the geotechnical workscope comprises seabed investigat
OMV Makes Two Discoveries Off Norway
OMV (Norge) has made gas/condensate discoveries in both the Hades and Iris prospects in licence PL 644 B, located in the Norwegian Sea. In the Hades prospect the well encountered c. 35 meters gross gas/condensate column within the Cretaceous Lange Formation of which 15 meters are net reservoir sands
Tendeka Gets New Advanced Completions Director
Oil and gas solutions provider Tendeka has appointed Paul Lynch as its new advanced completions director to help drive the commercialisation of its wireless intelligent completions technology, PulseEight. Lynch joins Tendeka having most recently been vice president of global technical sales with Del