HFW law firm has helped shipping association BIMCO draft an industry standard offshore decommissioning contact. The contract, DISMANTLECON, has been approved by BIMCO’s Documentary Committee and will be released at the end of June, along with guidance notes. It can be used for removal of any offshor
Subsea 7 and Royal IHC have launched the fully integrated reel-lay vessel Seven Vega. The ceremony took place at IHC’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands, and was performed by Monica Th. Bjørkmann, Vice President for Subsea 7 in Norway. Stuart Fitzgerald, Executive Vice President St
Atlantis Subsea Farming has for the first time deployed fish in its submersible pen and now the project is following the life of the fish in the deep. Atlantis Subsea Farming AS is owned by SinkabergHansen, AKVA group and Egersund Net, and in March last year the company was awarded a development lic
Kraken Subsea Solutions has been awarded the contract for inter-array cables package installation employer’s representation by Vattenfall for Danish Kriegers Flak (DKF) Project. The French marine renewable projects engineering and consultancy specialist will provide supervision services to Vattenfal
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Nord Stream 2, the developer of the twin gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, has performed the release of brown trout fish juveniles under the control of the Northwest branch of the Federal Fishery Agency, Fishery Inspection and Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage. In total 146,000
Subsea 7 is set for the launch and official naming ceremony of its new reel-lay vessel Seven Vega, to take place on Saturday. “When delivered, Seven Vega will be one of the most capable and cost-effective reel-lay vessels in the market and a global enabler for Subsea 7,” the company wrote on its soc
Olympic Subsea has entered into an agreement with Adwen GmbH, a subsidiary of Siemens Gamesa, for the multipurpose offshore vessel Olympic Orion. The contract period is firm for six months with further options, and it is expected to start in Q2 2019. Olympic Orion is equipped with gangway system, 10
Aquaterra Energy has expanded its presence in the Australasia region with the opening of its first engineering office and warehouse facility in Perth, following recent regional contract wins. The office will support regional oil and gas projects to increase efficiencies and reduce costs through its
Neptune has recently completed several survey, maintenance and construction campaigns for Oil Search at its offshore facilities in Papua New Guinea. The campaigns were conducted under the ongoing service agreement with Oil Search. Two survey campaigns were completed by Neptune’s Survey Service Line
SeaBird Exploration has secured a contract by Wintershall Dea for 2D acquisition project. The acquisition will take place in the Norwegian Sea. The survey has an expected duration of one month and will start in the third quarter this year. SeaBird did not disclose which vessel will conduct the surve
Ireland’s Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport has been advised that hydrographic and geophysical surveys will take place in the Irish Sea off the Wicklow coast between June and September 2019. The surveys will be undertaken to provide bathymetric and subsurface information to facilitate the d
Shell has started production at Appomattox floating production system months ahead of schedule. Appomattox floating production system is located approximately 129 kilometres south east of Louisiana in approximately 2,255 metres of water. Shell’s largest floating platform in the Gulf of Mexico curren
Pharos Offshore has boosted its subsea equipment fleet with the SMD built trenching vehicle, Q1000. The Q1000 jet trenching ROV has 1000hp (750kw) of installed power coupled to high – pressure water pumps, capable of up to 3 metre trench depth. Phil Walker, Pharos Offshore Group CEO, said: “The acqu
