Royal IHC has hit a milestone in the design and build of an integrated 550t reel lay system for Shanghai Salvage. It will be the first reel lay system in the Chinese market and moreover, it will be one of the largest and most sophisticated reel lay systems worldwide. Namely, this month, the tower an
ExxonMobil has received approval from European Commission to sell its non-operated upstream assets in Norway to Vår Energi, a company owned by Eni and HitecVision. The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would raise no competition concerns given the companies’ moderate combined market
From 2020, all vessels in the PGS fleet will share bathymetry information collected using echo sounders, with The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. The project aims to map the entire ocean floor by the year 2030. The bathymetric data will support Seabed 2030’s crowdsourced bathymetry init
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (November 11 – November 17). This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Subseaworldnews. Report Major Industry Move Ahead As Saipem And Subsea 7 Enter Merger
Bluefield Geoservices, a UK-based provider of specialist subsea geotechnical services announced its expansion into the Americas. The company will initially open two offices in the US, one in the northeast US to serve the immediate demands of the offshore renewable energy market, and one in the south
Polarcus has secured an award of an XArray marine seismic acquisition project in Malaysia. The project is planned to start late December 2019. It will have a duration of approximately four months. Following this award, the Polarcus core fleet is fully booked to early Q2 2020, the company noted. Pola
Oilfield services investment company Akastor has appointed Øyvind Paaske as chief financial officer, effective March 1, 2020. He replaces Leif H. Borge who will remain in the position up to this date, after which he will assume a new position in a company outside the Aker group. Øyvind Paaske joined
Decom North Sea has appointed Jinda Nelson as chair of its board of directors. Nelson appointment to the board follows several years as an active member of Decom North Sea, including close involvement with the organisation’s Decommissioning Leadership Group from its inception. She has also spent a n
TGS has started a new seismic survey in the MSGBC Basin, offshore north-west Africa. The Senegal North Ultra-Deep Offshore (SN-UDO-19) 3D survey covers over 5,100 square kilometers, with a modern broadband acquisition set-up. The project is being undertaken in partnership with GeoPartners, using the
Acteon’s riser and conductor specialist 2H Offshore has made several promotions within the organization. Ben Andrew has been appointed a director of the Woking office alongside Alex Rimmer. They will work together to grow the England and MENA regions, with Andrew leading the deployment of new cloud-
Maersk Supply Service has secured an integrated FPSO tow and mooring installation project for an operator in the North Sea. The work scope includes project management, engineering and offshore execution involving six anchor handling tug supply and subsea support vessels. Maersk Supply Service will p
DOF Subsea said it has secured several contracts in the Asia Pacific region, securing 130 days vessel and resource utilisation into Q1 2020. The contracts, for undisclosed clients in New Zealand and South East Asia, will see Skandi Hercules start operations in December 2019 for a major operator. In
GSP Offshore has completed the removal of Gloria jack-up rig for OMV Petrom, from its production location in the Black Sea. The Gloria platform was transported to Agigea harbor in Constanţa. This represents the first removal of an offshore production platform in Romania. The platform was used in oil
DNV GL has published a new recommended practice (RP) to standardize operator requirements for welding and inspection of subsea equipment. Developed through a joint industry project (JIP), the new RP aims to streamline manufacturing processes and significantly reduce lead-time and cost. For the first
