Subsea Technology & Rentals (STR) has officially opened its Singapore office in which the occasion was marked by a client open day on Wednesday January 22, 2020. The opening of STR’s Singapore facilities follows its recent strategic expansion into Asia Pacific which saw the appointment of Jason Fren
Ocean Installer has won a contract from Dana Petroleum for work at the Triton Area Development in the Central North Sea some 190 kilometers east of Aberdeen. The contract, which is Ocean Installer’s first with Dana, involves the installation and trenching of a 12-inch flexible production flowline at
DOF Subsea said it has been awarded several new contracts in the APAC region. The Oslo-listed subsea operating company said that the new contracts should secure further vessel and resource utilization in the first quarter and first part of the second quarter of 2020. The contracts, for undisclosed c
US offshore vessel owner Harvey Gulf has hired John Dunn as vice president of subsea vessel operations. Formerly of Oceaneering, Dunn will assemble and manage a subsea vessel management team, as CEO Shane Guidry looks to grow the company’s subsea business. Prior to Oceaneering, Dunn was the director
Shearwater GeoServices has secured a 3D broadband marine seismic acquisition campaign by ONGC in Western Offshore India. The project is scheduled to start in Q1 2020. The 4-month survey covers 2,000 sq. km of 3D in a shallow-water area of the Arabian Sea. The contract award follows last month’s anno
Ocean data company XOCEAN has provided its XO-450 unmanned surface vessel (USV) for seabed surveys on seven of the turbines at the 140-turbine Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm, located 23 kilometres off the UK coast. Throughout the survey, the data collected was monitored from shore in real-time b
McDermott said it has secured the support of more than two-thirds of all its funded debt creditors for a restructuring transaction that will equitize nearly all the company’s funded debt, eliminating over $4.6 billion of debt. The restructuring transaction will be implemented through a prepackaged C
Fugro and the Colombian Maritime Authority (Dirección General Maritima, DIMAR) have completed a joint environmental seep hunting study to help assess the country’s resource potential in the Caribbean Sea. The study involved shallow water seabed sediment coring, geochemical analyses, and seabed heat
Nokia has announced that Angola Cables is trialing Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) chipset for the first direct optical connection between the USA and Africa. The route provides direct, low-latency trans-Atlantic routing and simplifies the turn-up of services to better serve data consumpti
Equinix IBX data centers have been selected by RTI Connectivity (RTI) to extend its connectivity solutions in Tokyo, Japan, and Sydney, Australia. RTI’s transpacific submarine cable systems are the newest secure long-haul routes interconnecting the Asia-Pacific region and Australia via Guam. RTI sel
PCCW Global and PEACE Cable International Network will cooperate on the PEACE South extension of the Pakistan East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) submarine cable system. This cooperation positions PEACE as a major cable system to head south from the Europe-Asia route, in a move that will deliver c
Telxius’ BRUSA submarine cable has reached record 550 Gbps single-wavelength channel speeds during an advanced trial leveraging Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) coherent optical solution. In addition, a commercially deployable solution for a total capacity of more than 20 Tbps on a single fiber pa
Pipeline technology specialist STATS has wrapped up a six-month pipeline isolation campaign offshore and onshore Malaysia. The work covered 12 pipeline isolations on behalf of partner Handal Energy for a major operator in Malaysia, and is said to be the largest integrated campaign undertaken by STAT
Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE1) submarine cable system has landed in La Siesta Beach (Djibouti) and the marine installation is underway. The cable is being developed by Djibouti Telecom, Somtel, Telkom Kenya and SubCom. In addition to the installation of the trunk, the installation of the
