SubseaPartner has decided to increase its presence in the UK by appointing Tore Hafte Staalesen as country manager for the UK department. Tore Staalesen moves from his role as the company CEO to focus on the UK market. In addition, SubseaPartner has appointed Cato Kydland, the company’s QHSE and ris
Spark and the Southern Cross Cable Network (Southern Cross) shareholders have signed agreements and received regulatory approval for Telstra to become a 25% shareholder of Southern Cross. Telstra will also become an anchor customer of the new Southern Cross Next undersea cable, which will now procee
TGS is working with Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) Marine Geosciences Group on a project to assess earthquake and tsunami hazards in Banda arc and neighboring regions. IPGP – a French governmental, non-profit research and higher education establishment – is licensing some of TGS’s Ban
Polarcus, a Dubai-based seismic contractor, has recorded a slight decrease in its vessel utilization during the third quarter of 2019. Quarterly vessel utilization was at 83 percent compared to 86 percent in the third quarter of 2018. According to Polarcus’ update, on a contracted basis the vessel u
Aberdeen-based controls technology company Proserv has established two separate divisions – Proserv Controls and Gilmore, a Proserv Company, which will sit under the umbrella of the parent company, Proserv Group. Both divisions emanate directly from the firm’s abilities in different segments of the
Sonardyne Brasil has supplied Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) positioning technology to track science equipment and underwater vehicles deployed from Brazil’s oceanographic research vessel, Alpha Crucis. The 64 m-long vessel, which is operated by the University of São Paulo, undertakes research projects
Benthic, part of Acteon, has secured an offshore geotechnical and geophysical contract from TechnipFMC for the Golfinho development, a deepwater discovery off the coast of Mozambique. Golfinho will be developed as a subsea system tied back to an onshore liquefied natural gas facility. For the first
SCF has exercised the option with Polarcus for the redelivery of Vyacheslav Tikhonov vessel, originally named Polarcus Selma. Polarcus currently expects the vessel to be redelivered in November 2019 following completion of the wide-azimuth project in the Americas. SCF extended the bareboat charter f
Zennor Petroleum has completed the 2019 Finlaggan subsea installation campaign utilizing six separate vessels. Zennor is currently developing the 100% owned Finlaggan field in the UK Central North Sea block 21/05c and 21/05d. The development project is targeting 30mmboe of gas condensate reserves fr
RRS Sir David Attenborough, one of the world’s most advanced polar research vessels, has been officially named at a ceremony held at Cammell Laird’s Birkenhead, UK, shipyard on Thursday. The milestone event attracted over 600 invited guests and more than 4,000 members of the public. Commissioned by
Polarcus has secured high industry prefunding for an XArray multi-client project in Australia. The project is planned to start in Q4 2019. According to Polarcus, the project will have an approximate duration of two months. The company did not disclose further details regarding the project. Polarcus
A sophisticated T-bar mini-penetrometer for exclusive in-field seabed strength profiling of box core samples is now available from environmental monitoring experts Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL). The T-bar penetrometer measures the resistance of sediment to continuous penetration at a slo
Subsea 7 has been awarded two contracts with a combined value between $50 million and $150 million by BP Exploration for the Azeri Central East (ACE) project in the Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) field in the Caspian Sea. The project is situated in a water depth of approximately 140 metres. T
Sabah Shell Petroleum, the operator of the Gumusut-Kakap (GK) semi Floating Production System located offshore Sabah, has completed its GK Phase 2 project. The GK Phase 2 project involved the drilling of four additional subsea wells tied back to its semi Floating Production System (GK-Semi FPS). At
