Sumitomo Corporation and Electric Power Development (J-POWER) have started an offshore ground investigation around Hirashima and Enoshima islands off the coast of Saikai City, Nagasaki Prefecture, to explore the possibility of developing an offshore wind power plant. The Japanese government is curre
Alewijnse Marine has received a contract from Dutch shipyard Royal Niestern Sander for the delivery of the complete electrical installation onboard the hydrographic research vessel ‘Geo Ranger’. Alewijnse Marine is responsible for the complete electric and automation outfitting. This will include th
Scotland’s Energy Minister, Paul Wheelhouse, has announced funding of £4 million to help maximize the economic benefit to Scotland from the decommissioning of North Sea infrastructure. The money from the Decommissioning Challenge Fund is in addition to the £10 million committed in the first three ro
Aker Solutions has seen red in the second-quarter 2019, as impairments affected the company’s bottom line, compared to same time last year. The Norwegian services player booked Q2 2019 loss of NOK 11 million, against profit of NOK 117 million in the prior-year comparable period. However, Earnings be
TechnipFMC has welcomed Catherine MacGregor to its executive leadership team as president New Ventures. MacGregor previously spent 23 years with Schlumberger in a succession of leadership positions involving global operational activities. These included president Drilling Group, president Characteri
The Cable Lifetime Monitoring Joint Industry Project (JIP CALM), a collaboration between over 30 international organisations, that aims to reduce subsea power cable failures and make offshore wind energy more reliable has been launched. At present, failing subsea power cables are one of the main ris
The first USV Pilot Technique Competition was recently carried out in Xiangshan Marine Technology Bay in Zhuhai, China. Contestants competed on both theoretical knowledge and field operation for the final award. 19 contestants joined the competition. Their first challenge was to set up configuration
Equinor and the Gudrun partners have decided to invest in a water injection plant on the Gudrun field to improve reservoir recovery. This will extend the field life by three years compared to the original plan, Equinor informed. “We are pleased about the partnership’s decision to invest NOK 2.4 bill
IKM Subsea has appointed Thinagaran Suppaiyan as country manager UAE based in Dubai. Thina joined IKM Subsea Singapore in 2013 as a project manager and moved up the ranks to operations manager before ending as the regional operations director. He has more than 11 years’ experience in the ROV industr
Equinor has started production from the Trestakk subsea field on Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea. Tied back to the Åsgard A floating production vessel, the field has estimated recoverable resources of 76 million barrels of oil. “Together with our partners ExxonMobil and Vår Energi we spent ample t
Rigmar has been contracted by Vattenfall, the Swedish energy group behind the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, to inspect and maintain subsea structures and cables as well as foundations, turbine transition pieces, subsea cabling and boat landings for the project. It is Rigmar’s first win a
Submarine Manufacturing & Products has delivered a 4,000mtr Work Class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and launch and recovery system (LARS) for a submarine rescue contract that includes ROV delivered submarine rescue pods and containerized ROV training simulator. The delivery forms part of the over
James Fisher and Sons has recently secured a number of contracts in the offshore renewable energy sector with a combined value of circa £30 million. James Fisher has been awarded Phase 2 of the unexploded ordinance work and boulder clearance, as well as met mast (measurement tower) decommissioning o
Seabed Geosolutions has secured a 4D ocean bottom node (OBN) monitor survey in West Africa for a major oil company. The project, for which the data is expected to be acquired over a two-month period during the third quarter of 2019, will cover 151 square kilometers in water depths up to 600 meters.
