Aker Solutions has received a contract to provide subsea control systems for Beach Energy’s Otway project Phase 4 and 5, offshore Victoria, Australia. “The award demonstrates Aker Solutions’ leading technology in subsea control systems and the on going drive to meet complex customer requirements in
AIS Training and Survivex, part of the 3T Energy Group, has secured a contract with well decommissioning specialist, Well-Safe Solutions, to manage and deliver all of its training requirements and provide an IT platform to support its Competence Management System. The three-year contract will see AI
Northrop Grumman’s AQS-24 mine hunting sonar has recently completed initial in-water testing of a Deploy and Retrieval (D&R) payload. Operated from the Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vessel (MCM USV), the AQS-24 D&R demonstrated the unmanned operations needed to perform a mine hunting mission
Ocean Installer has appointed Odd Strømsnes as the company’s new CEO. Strømsnes was most recently managing director at TIOS, a Technip FMC and Island Offshore joint venture. He was also managing director for Technip Norge from 2010 to 2016. Interim CEO Kevin Murphy will continue as deputy CEO. “We a
Equinor’s Johan Sverdrup field centre will be officially opened by Norway’s prime minister Erna Solberg today. The Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Sylvi Listhaug, will also attend the opening, Equinor informed. Since Equinor and the Johan Sverdrup partners Lundin Norway, Petoro, Aker BP and Total
Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME) has completed the installation of 58 monopile foundations and two offshore substation foundations at the SeaMade offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea. Installation works kicked off in September 2019 with DEME’s offshore installation vessel
Dutch subsea and survey specialist Fugro said it has lost an arbitration case involving Tasik Toba Subsea over termination of a long-term-chartered DP3 diving support vessel, the Southern Star. An arbitration tribunal ruled that Fugro should not have terminated the charter contract with Tasik and aw
EDS HV, a high voltage engineering solutions provider to the renewables industry, has expanded operations with the opening of a new Midland’s office in Stafford. The new Midlands location means greater geographical coverage, providing a central meeting place that saves time for both clients and EDS.
Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a 3D Isometrix seismic acquisition project by FAR Gambia. The one-month survey will cover parts of block A5 offshore Gambia in the Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Conakry (MSGBC) Basin. It will be acquired by the SW Amundsen and provide new seismic
Kraken Robotics’ wholly owned subsidiary, Kraken Robotic Systems, has secured a contract from the Government of Canada for the SeaVision 3D laser scanner. The contract is valued at $524,720. SeaVision was initially pre-qualified under the Canadian government’s Build in Canada Innovation Program (BCI
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has seen an increase in vessel utilization for the fourth quarter 2019 at 80% compared with 32% for the fourth quarter in 2018. For the full year 2019, the vessel utilization was 59%, whereas the utilization for the full year 2018 was 33%. In the fourth quarter of
Equinor has launched new climate ambitions to reduce the absolute greenhouse gas emissions from its operated offshore fields and onshore plants in Norway with 40% by 2030, 70% by 2040 and to near zero by 2050. By 2030 this implies annual cuts of more than 5 million tonnes, corresponding to around 10
Offshore vessel operator and subsea services provider Pacific Radiance has appointed James Pang and Anthony Pang to take over key roles in senior management. James Pang, currently managing director of commercial and business development, has been appointed as the acting chief executive officer (CEO)
Polarcus, a Dubai-based seismic contractor, has recorded a decrease in its vessel utilization during the fourth quarter of 2019. The vessel activity also decreased on a full year basis from 87 percent in 2018 to 79 percent in 2019. Quarterly vessel utilization was at 71 percent compared to 96 percen
