Subsea technology company Seatools has secured a contract from an undisclosed EPC player for the design and delivery of a piling template hydraulic and instrumentation system. The system will be used for pile installation during the construction of an offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Pile installation
Norwegian seismic player TGS has appointed Scott Michell as senior vice president of Imaging at TGS and signed an agreement with Google Cloud for flexible, cloud-based, compute capacity. In this role, Michell will oversee all Imaging and R&D activities, and focus on further enhancing the company’s t
Subsea technology firm Rovco has secured a £3.9 million investment from Foresight group via the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund and Foresight VCTs. The investment was part of a larger round totalling £5 million which included funds from existing shareholders. The funds will be used to support
Deep Down has received orders from two independent oil and gas operators for emergency umbilical repairs. Both projects include design, engineering and the manufacture of associated umbilical accessories. One solution is for a damaged umbilical, which will be retrieved, repaired and reinstalled in t
DCL Rigging & Mooring (DCL) has strengthened its management team by welcoming the addition of Keith Shepherd as CEO & President. Shepherd was formerly North America senior sales manager of the Cortland Company and has 30 years of experience creating and growing markets & companies in the Rigging, Ae
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Providence Resources, the Irish based energy company, has appointed Alan Linn as chief executive officer with immediate effect. He also joins the board as an executive director. Alan has over 35 years of international oil and gas industry experience with a track record of operating and developing bu
Avaroa Cable has confirmed that the Manatua One Polynesia submarine cable system has been brought ashore in Rutaki village, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. The cable will provide international connectivity to Rarotonga and Aitutaki when it goes live in May 2020 with a capacity of up to 10Tbps. It will conn
LEKOIL has informed, on behalf of Optimum Petroleum Development Company, the Operator of the OPL 310 License, and LEKOIL Nigeria, that the site survey on OPL 310 has started. Following on from the drilling of Ogo-1 and Ogo-1 ST in 2013 which encountered hydrocarbons within the SynRift and PostRift,
Ocean Infinity has signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER). The four-year agreement focuses on expanding deep-water autonomous technologies to advance the transmissi
Impact Subsea has signed a distribution agreement with Deep Tide Technology. Deep Tide Technology is located in Shanghai, China and is focused on the provision of technology to the marine scientific research and engineering sectors. Deep Tide Technology will provide additional support to the Impact
The Sangomar field development Phase 1 has been approved by the Rufisque Offshore, Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Deep Offshore (RSSD) joint venture and has entered the execute phase of activities. Woodside, as operator of the RSSD joint venture, has executed the purchase contract for the floating p
Natural Power has assisted AQUIND with the application for development consent for the AQUIND Interconnector. The application to the Planning Inspectorate was accepted on 12th December 2019. The AQUIND Interconnector is a new 2,000 MW subsea and underground high voltage direct current bi-directional
Subsea 7 and OneSubsea’s Subsea Integration Alliance has secured a very large contract by Woodside for the Sangomar field development Phase-1 project located in the Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Offshore Deep oil blocks, in Senegal. This contract was initially awarded in December 2018 subject to fi
