Kongsberg Hydroid has secured US Navy indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract extension worth USD 52.3 million for the MK 18 family of unmanned underwater vehicle systems. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the contract to USD 100 million
Van Oord has secured a contract from Ørsted for the cable installation works at the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan. The wind farms, located between 35 and 60 kilometers off the west coast of Changhua County, will supply sustainable energy to approximately 1 million households
Kraken Robotics has been awarded a contract from a military customer to provide high capacity SeaPower battery solution for an underwater robotics application. The contract, the second one from this undisclosed client, is worth approximately $2.0 million, the company informed. The previous order by
Parkwind has handed out the contract for the detailed design of the OSS foundations and turbines for the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm to the Hamburg branch office of the consulting group COWI. The Arcadis Ost 1 wind farm has a capacity of about 247 MW and is located in the Baltic Sea, northeast
ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK has been selected to provide an autonomous route survey capability for Project WILTON. The Royal Navy’s Mine Countermeasures & Hydrographic Capability (MHC) team are assessing the ability to ‘deliver UK Peacetime route survey capability by exploiting Maritime Autonomous Systems’.
Modus has recently completed a high-speed decommissioning survey for Rever Offshore in the North Sea using one of its Hybrid Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (HAUVs). The objective of the survey was to locate any items of debris that remained at the sites after the decommissioning of Fairfield assets
Polarcus has started the multi-vessel wide-azimuth project for WesternGeco, the geophysical services product line of Schlumberger, in the Salina del Istmo Basin in the Gulf of Mexico. The project, awarded in June, incorporates two Polarcus high-end streamer vessels plus two source vessels. According
Equinor and its partners, AkerBP and Wellesley Petroleum, have found gas in the Ørn exploration well south-west of the Marulk field in the Norwegian Sea. Recoverable resources are estimated at 8–14 million standard cubic meters of oil equivalent, corresponding to 50–88 million barrels of oil equival
Deep Down has appointed veteran oil and gas industry executive Micah Simmons as chief operating officer, a new role at the company. Simmons was most recently vice president of Project Management for Global Operations in Siemens Oil and Gas, based in Houston, Texas. He Simmons led the global project
Sercel and BGP have launched GPR, a new ocean bottom node (OBN). Meeting industry demand for flexibility, GPR nodes can be deployed by either remotely operated vehicle (ROV) or node-on-a-rope (NOAR). GPR’s design incorporates an optional acoustic transponder to optimize operations and the 3C MEMS an
ExxonMobil has made an oil discovery on the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana at the Tripletail-1 well in the Turbot area. The discovery adds to the previously announced estimated recoverable resource of more than 6 billion oil-equivalent barrels on the Stabroek Block. Tripletail-1 encountered approxim
Ocean Networks has formed a new business unit called Submarine Cable Salvage. The new division will serve the research and education community by repurposing out of service (OOS) submarine cable systems for ocean observatories. In addition, the new unit will acquire, repurpose and operate the connec
PGS, a focused marine geophysical company, has selected Google as its preferred cloud provider. This collaboration marks a significant step by PGS in the digital transformation of its business, the company said. By harnessing Google’s cloud-based technologies and incorporating artificial intelligenc
Equinor, together with its partners, has started production from the Utgard gas and condensate field, spanning the Norwegian-UK border in the North Sea on Monday. Recoverable Utgard resources are estimated at around 40 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) and daily production on plateau will be a
