UK authorities have approved Neptune Energy’s decommissioning plan for the Juliet field located in the UK North Sea. Neptune Energy filed the draft for decommissioning of the Minke and Juliet fields in March 2019. According to the decommissioning plan, which was approved on August 01, the Juliet man
Tekmar Energy has secured the its largest contract win to date from Ørsted for the supply of the cable protection system product, TekLink, for Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. The contract is worth no less than £5 million. As part of the project, Tekmar will be supplying TekLink Generation 8 cable pr
Trendsetter Engineering and Intelligent Wellhead Systems (IWS) have established a joint venture to introduce new technology and services aimed at improving the safety and efficiency of offshore drilling, completion, intervention and abandonment operations. The joint venture, InVision Offshore (IO) w
Siem Offshore’s subsidiary Overseas Drilling Ltd (ODL) and Texas A&M Research Foundation (TAMRF) have agreed to extend the current contract of TAMRF’s charter of the vessel JOIDES Resolution. The new deal will see the scientific research ship stay with TAMRF until September 30, 2024. The JOIDES Reso
Dubai-based Topaz Energy and Marine has joined the World Ocean Council (WOC) – the Global Blue Economy Business Organization. Ian Trebinski, head of QHSSE at Topaz Energy and Marine, stated: “Our partnership with the WOC signals Topaz’s clear commitment to further enhancing our contributions to the
Worley has been awarded a contract by BP for hook-up and commissioning integration services for BP’s Mad Dog 2 project and the Argos deep-water platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Argos will be BP’s newest floating production unit (FPU). It is planned to be commissioned in 2021. The project will also ha
Halliburton has won an integrated services contract with Petrobras for the Libra pre-salt development in the Santos Basin. The two-year and six month contract will provide drilling and completion services to drive greater efficiency by applying pre-salt expertise and integrating multiple product off
Marine monitoring systems manufacturers Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) can provide oil spill monitoring data and alarms directly to internet-enabled devices from any location with GSM/GPRS or satellite coverage. The non-contact oil spill monitoring systems can be terrestrial or aquatic (u
Ciena has recently appointed Judi Hartono as Country Head of Indonesia. He brings a significant amount of industry expertise that will help operators lay the foundation for networks that can adapt and scale to handle unpredictable capacity requirements and application demands, Ciena said. Hartono jo
Crown Estate Scotland has informed that a comprehensive ‘root and branch’ review of how Scotland’s seabed is leased for aquaculture will aim to promote sustainable development and wider value. As the body responsible for the leasing of Scotland’s seabed and around half the foreshore, Crown Estate Sc
NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer has completed leg one of Expedition 1904 in partnership with private industry and the Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER). The mission consisted of seabed surveys of Undersea Cultural Heritage (UCH) sites located along the East Coast of the United States. Engine
McDermott has been awarded a contract by Saudi Aramco for production deck module (PDM) in the Hasbah gas field with hook-up and modification works in Saudi Arabia’s Karan fields located offshore in the Arabian Gulf. The scope of work includes engineering, procurement, construction and installation (
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has been awarded a contract from Nabirm for a proprietary 3D controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) survey in the Walvis Basin offshore Namibia. Under the contract, valued in excess of $1 million, EMGS will also provide processing, inversion and interpretation se
Shell Offshore, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, has made the final investment decision (FID) for the PowerNap deepwater project in the US Gulf of Mexico. PowerNap is a subsea tie-back to the Shell-operated Olympus production hub. The project is expected to start production in late 2021 and produc
