Shearwater has brought into operation a total of 10 vessels for the 2019 northern hemisphere summer season. High customer activity and successful integration of the marine seismic acquisition assets and operations of Schlumberger over the past six months provides Shearwater a 33-month vessel backlog
TGS and Schlumberger have partnered on multiclient ocean-bottom node projects in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico. This collaboration includes the previously-announced 2,350 km2 Amendment Phase 1 project in the Mississippi Canyon and Atwater Valley protraction areas. Amendment Phase 1 started in ea
Magseis Fairfield has received a Letter of Intent (LoI) for a deepwater data acquisition program in the Gulf of Mexico. The project is expected to have a duration of two months. The survey is due to start late in the fourth quarter of 2019. “The award demonstrates our strong position in the Gulf of
Reach Subsea’s Havila Harmony will serve as the topside support vessel for citizen explorers, researchers, content experts, and crew throughout the OceanGate’s 2019 Titanic Survey Expedition. The Havila Harmony is scheduled to depart from St. John’s, Newfoundland in June 2019 and steam nearly 380 na
Oil and gas process equipment supplier Frames has been awarded a contract to supply TechnipFMC with the hydraulic control systems for subsea wells and subsea isolation valves in the Eni Merakes field tie-back to the existing Jangkrik Floating Production Unit in offshore East Kalimantan, Indonesia. T
ROVOP has expanded into mainland Europe with the appointment of Job Biersteker as business development manager in its new facility located in Rotterdam. Job has been active in the subsea industry for nearly a decade and has had various positions including ROV technician, project engineer and project
Subsea technology and systems provider Sonardyne has acquired Denmark-based maritime software and equipment specialist EIVA. EIVA will join the Sonardyne group of companies while remaining an independent business and brand. EIVA Chief Executive Officer Jeppe Nielsen, who has been CEO since 2011, wil
InterMoor has signed a contract with COOEC, a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), to install deepwater mooring systems for the Liuhua 16-2 and Lingshui 17-2 floating production facilities in the South China Sea. The Liuhua 16-2 turret-moored floating production and storage
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical (TGS) and Spectrum’s boards of directors have unanimously approved and decided upon a final merger agreement and merger plan between the companies. The companies announced the statutory merger at the beginning of May. The merger plan is now to be submitted to and registered by
The chairman of the board of directors of Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS), Eystein Eriksrud, has notified the company that he will not seek re-election at the end of his current service period. The company has further been informed that Anne Øian, a member of the board of directors of EMGS, will
Fugro has recently contributed more than 110,000 square kilometers of high-resolution bathymetry data in the North Atlantic Ocean to help improve the quality and coverage of seabed mapping in the region. The dataset, which covers an area the size of Iceland, was delivered to two complementary progra
Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a 3D seismic acquisition contract over the SNE field offshore Senegal by Woodside Energy, operator of the SNE Field development joint venture. The contract covers the Sangomar, Sangomar Deep and Rufisque Offshore blocks, which include the SNE discovery. The wo
Wintershall Dea has installed two subsea templates on the ocean floor in Norway, marking a major milestone for the operated Nova project. The installation unlocks the next phase of the field development, with 65 kilometers of pipelines now ready to be laid in preparation for tie-back to the nearby G
NKT has been awarded the turnkey project from Equinor for the 132 kV high-voltage cable connecting the oil and gas platforms Johan Sverdrup 2 and Gina Krog. Equinor has selected NKT as the turnkey supplier for the high-voltage cable project connecting the oil and gas platforms Gina Krog and Johan Sv
