Norway’s Solstad Maritime, established in January 2024, has secured a contract with Texas-headquartered operator of seismic acquisition programs SAExploration for one of its construction support vessels (CSVs). The contract defined as substantial, meaning it is worth between $10 million and $30 mill
Texax-headquartered energy technology company SLB has secured a contract to deliver carbon storage solutions for the UK’s first offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, developed by a joint venture of BP, Equinor and TotalEnergies. For the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) project, SLB
Italy-headquartered Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) has signed a sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition of 75.4% of the share capital of a compatriot subsea services company established in 1964, thereby expanding its operations into the Mediterranean and West African countries and broadening it
Dutch offshore solar company Oceans of Energy, in collaboration with NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, has deployed two environmental monitoring landers at the Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN) wind farm, operated by CrossWind. According to Oceans of Energy, the site is set to host the wor
A research project carried out by The Oyster Restoration Company (TORC) and supported by RWE has established that large-scale native oyster reef restoration at offshore wind farms in the North Sea is feasible. “Flat oysters are an important species because they can create reefs that provide food and
Norwegian vessel management services provider Aurora Offshore, part of the Borealis Group, has taken delivery of the eleventh and final vessel from compatriot operator Sea1 Offshore, ex-Siem Offshore. Siem Barracuda, the third high-end subsea vessel of a total of three that are part of the collabora
Members of the Subsea Integration Alliance (SIA), United States’ OneSubsea and United Kindgom’s Subsea7, have delivered and installed a structure forming the base of a project being developed by Norway’s oil and gas company OKEA in the North Sea.
London-headquartered precision engineering group Hunting PLC has secured a $31 million subsea order for its titanium stress joints (TSJs) for the third phase of a deepwater gas development in the Turkish part of the Black Sea. Six TSJs, including the patented Direct Pull-thru Tube technology, will b
Van Oord has placed an order with a Chinese shipyard for two next-generation subsea rock installation vessels that will be capable of operating on methanol. The vessels, to be constructed by Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore in China, will be equipped with a loading capacity of 35,000 tons, will be capab
South Korean subsea cable manufacturer LS Cable & System has completed the construction of what it says is the largest high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable production facility in Asia. LS Cable & System announced on July 16 that it had completed the construction of its fifth submarine cable plan
Prysmian’s Leonardo da Vinci, said to be the world’s largest cable laying vessel (CLV), has begun the second phase of cable laying in UK waters for NeuConnect, a high-voltage submarine cable that will create the first direct energy transmission link between the UK and Germany. Prysmian completed the
South Korean Taihan Cable & Solution is investing $360 million for the first phase of construction of its second submarine cable manufacturing facility, which will once operational deliver a production capacity nearly five times greater than the company’s first submarine cable plant. Taihan opened t
Subsea7 has secured two new contracts, one with Norwegian state-owned energy company Equinor for work in Norway and the other with UK-headquartered energy firm Shell for the provision of services in the U.S. Namely, Subsea7 announced the award of a large contract, worth between $300 million and $500
Denmark-headquartered power cable manufacturer and installation firm NKT has selected Helix Robotics Solutions Limited, the UK robotics division of Helix Energy Solutions Group, as the service provider for what is said to be the world’s most powerful subsea trencher. NKT and Helix Robotics entered i
