The Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship (COVE) has recently welcomed five new members to its Board of Directors. The new board members include Mark Jollymore, President of Innovasea Systems Inc., Melanie Nadeau, Director, Strategic Initiatives of Emera, Aubrey Palmeter, President & CEO of
SAExploration has been awarded a new shallow-water ocean-bottom marine project in the Asia Pacific region for a major national oil company. The contract is valued at approximately $28 million, the company informed. Services to be provided will include data acquisition utilizing remotely operated veh
i-Tech 7, Subsea 7’s Life of Field business unit, has completed a subsea decommissioning and abandonment project for LLOG Exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. LLOG Exploration was seeking better ways to flush three flowlines and two umbilicals as part of the work scope to abandon the G1 115 platform.
Jadestone Energy has completed installation of replacement subsea umbilical cables at the Montara complex, offshore Australia. The umbilical cables are an essential part of the control system of the Montara complex subsea wells, providing electrical power and control signals to the subsea well-heads
Allseas Group has been awarded gas export pipeline contract for the Barossa project, offshore Australia. The contract represents another big step towards a Final Investment Decision planned for early next year, Santos, a stake holder in the project, informed. Allseas’ contract includes the engineeri
Triton Submarines has sold its first Triton 7500/3 series submersible to Project REV Ocean – a not for profit foundation established and funded by Kjell Inge Røkke. The Triton 7500/3 will be the deepest diving acrylic pressure hull equipped submersible ever conceived and is capable of diving to 2,28
Hydratight has installed two MORSEAL enclosure clamps on the outer diameter of a riser connected to the Shell Nelson platform in the Nelson field located 80 kilometers north east of Aberdeen. These are the first MORSEAL installations for Shell in the North Sea. The MORSEAL clamps have been used to s
General Dynamics Mission Systems has recently released the new Bluefin-12 autonomous unmanned underwater vehicle. This new vehicle builds upon the proven Bluefin autonomy and uses shared Bluefin Robotics’ core capabilities, increased mission modularity and embedded intelligence to complete users’ lo
ALE has been awarded a steel catenary riser (SCR) and umbilical pull-in contract by Subsea 7 USA. The scope of work included in the contract is for engineering, procurement, fabrication and offshore pull-in operations. ALE will start the engineering phase of this project immediately with offshore op
DeepOcean, on behalf of Hengtong Group, has completed export cable installation for the first floating wind farm project in the Atlantic Ocean. This marks DeepOcean’s first project for the floating offshore wind industry. The scope of work included project management, engineering and execution of al
ECOsubsea, the Norwegian provider of hull cleaning technology, has secured contracts to clean in North European ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge. The cleaning system has now been approved for use in the two North European ports following around 500 vessel cleanings in Southampton and Norway and its pr
Weatherford has signed a $220 million, three-year contract with ADNOC to provide directional drilling services in the UAE. The agreement entails using the Weatherford Magnus rotary steerable system in both re-entry wells and new wells. “Magnus is demonstrating consistent reliability, a critical elem
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind has launched ocean survey operations within the Atlantic Shores lease area, in order to inform future turbine development. Survey operations encompassing 183,000 acres, located 8-20 miles off the New Jersey coast between Barnegat Light and Sea Isle City, are expected to
Cortez Subsea and AFGlobal have strengthened their strategic partnership to bring the Stinger Deployed Diverless Connector (SDDC) technology to the market, aimed at reducing cost and risk of pipelay operations. The Stinger Deployed Diverless Connector has been developed to conduct pipeline tie-ins u
