The new director of The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, Jamie McMichael-Phillips, has now taken up his position. He will lead one of the most challenging projects of the next decade, the mapping of the entire ocean floor by the year 2030. The announcement of his appointment was made in
Hydra Offshore Construction and Subsea has hired Daryl Walter, a 40-year marine industry professional, as project manager. Walter will take the lead on the DP2 Saturation Diving Vessel, Subsea Responder I. He will oversee estimating proposals and will implant strategic initiatives to expand Hydra’s
Helix Robotics Solutions has been awarded three scopes of work for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm project by EDF Renewables. Gary Aylmer, Helix Robotics Solutions vice president – Europe and West Africa, said: “This is a significant award for Helix as it represents an expansion to our
SeaBird Exploration’s chief financial officer, Nils Haugestad, has resigned. Haugestad will leave his position as of March 31, 2020, and will remain available as needed for some time after that, SeaBird informed. Nils has been CFO in Seabird for six years and was instrumental in the refinancing of t
The Marine Institute and Spanish shipyard Astilleros Armon Vigo have signed a contract for the construction of Ireland’s marine research vessel, following the completion of the vessel design by Skipsteknisk. The building of the vessel is planned to complete in 2022. Supporting the Government’s natio
TGS has completed a new multibeam and coring program covering over 213,0000 square kilometers in the Campos and Santos basins of offshore Brazil. This study, known as a SeepHunter campaign, includes the results of 342 conventional cores and 29 jumbo piston cores and heat probes. In additon, advanced
NTT is set to start the construction of a large-capacity submarine cable, MIST, between Singapore, Myanmar and India (Mumbai and Chennai). The construction will be part of a strategic joint venture for international submarine cables in South East Asia, with Orient Link from December 2019. The MIST c
Axxis Geo Solutions (AGS) said that letter of intent from September this year for a large OBN survey has not been finalized due to contract delays to its client. Namely, the final contract award is subject to its client obtaining a separate contract award from their partners. AGS has learned that it
Eiffage Métal has awarded Sif Holding a contract for the delivery of 80 monopiles and the primary steel for 80 transition pieces for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. Sif’s scope comprises manufacturing of the monopiles, storage at its MV2 facility and delivery at its deep sea quay sid
Vår Energi and license partner Mime Petroleum have submitted the revised plan for Development and Operations of Balder and Ringhorne, the Balder Future project, to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. Vår Energi and Mime Petroleum plan to extend the Balder and Ringhorne production lifetim
Forum Energy Technologies has completed a three-month upgrade to its hyperbaric testing facility, which, according to the company, will result in an operational time saving to client of more than 35 per cent. Located at the company’s Kirkbymoorside base in North Yorkshire, UK, the pressure test tank
Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded hybrid node and towed streamer seismic survey by Repsol Oil & Gas Malaysia. The survey is scheduled for Q1 2020 and is expected to take 2 months to complete. The project covers approximately 1,000 square kilometers of ocean bottom and towed streamer seismic on
Polarcus and Sovcomflot have agreed to postpone the scheduled redelivery of the Vyacheslav Tikhonov vessel. The redelivery of the vessel was postponed until January 15, 2020, while potential projects are pursued by SCF. The vessel will remain under the ‘charter back’ to a Polarcus subsidiary during
Aker BP and its partner Pandion Energy have produced first oil from Valhall Flank West in the North Sea. Through the development of this field, the wellhead platform alliance between Aker BP, Kvaerner, Aker Solutions and ABB set a new standard for delivery of flank developments on the Norwegian shel
