Norway’s VARD has completed an upgrade and maintenance project on the 17-year-old Island Wellserver multi-purpose vessel owned by Island Offshore. Delivered in 2008, the 116-meter-long Island Wellserver is capable of performing light well intervention and associated services, construction and subsea
An energy subsea construction vessel (ESCV) being built in Vietnam for Norwegian shipping company Rem Offshore has hit the water one month ahead of schedule. Once delivered next year, the vessel will perform heavy construction work in offshore wind and subsea arenas with net-zero emissions. Followin
All inter-array cables have been installed at EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Seaway7 said on July 1 it completed the installation of the last inter-array cable, connecting the 13th and last string of the He Dreiht project to the BorWin epsilon converter platform, part o
Innovex International, a Houston-based provider of products and technologies to the oil & gas industry, established in 2024 by the merger of Dril-Quip and Innovex Downhole Solutions, has completed the divestment of its Subsea Tree product line to compatriot Trendsetter Engineering in an all-cash tra
In response to an increasing need for safeguarding critical maritime infrastructure due to ongoing geopolitical uncertainty and an increasingly dynamic risk picture, Norway’s KONGSBERG has opened a maritime test bed for protecting potentially vulnerable infrastructure such as subsea pipelines, power
Norway’s Reach Subsea has secured multiple new contracts and call-offs within the scope of existing frame agreements, all with an estimated value of NOK 370 million (around €31.2 million). The contracts are set to begin in the third and fourth quarters of 2025 in the North Sea and European regions.
South Korean subsea cable installation company LS Marine Solution has signed a contract with Türkiye’s Tersan Shipyard for the construction of its new, ultra-large cable laying vessel (CLV). To expand orders for large-scale HVDC and offshore wind projects, both domestic and in Europe and North Ameri
The Hague-based Wave Energy Collective (Weco) has entered the building phase of its upgraded wave energy converter (WEC), Kaizen 2.0, together with Holland Shipyards Group. The project is said to build on a longstanding collaboration between Weco and the Dutch shipyard, which supported the developer
Fugro has made what it says is an industry-first for pipelay support services, performing a remote survey for a 433-kilometer trunkline offshore Western Australia using its Blue Essence uncrewed surface vessel (USV). Fugro conducted a series of survey campaigns said to have played a critical role in
The partially outfitted hull of a new cable-laying vessel (CLV) being built for Nexans has started its journey from Poland to Norway, where it will be finalized. Based on an ST-297 CLV design by Skipsteknisk, Nexans Electra, ordered as the second vessel by Nexans at Norway’s Ulstein Verft, is an upd
Jan De Nul has pulled two export cables for the 1,080 MW Thor offshore wind farm, currently under construction in Denmark. The export cables will transport clean, renewable electricity from the offshore site 22 kilometers out in the North Sea to the Danish mainland. In 2023, Jan De Nul, together wit
DOF Group has won another set of long-term assignments off the coast of Brazil for one of its anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels and a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) support vessel (RSV), with the country’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras.
Brazilian oil & gas giant Petrobras and Dutch geo-data specialist Fugro have expanded their decades-long partnership with four multi-year contracts that together have an approximate value of $340 million. Following a tender procedure, Fugro has been awarded four multi-year, day-rate contracts for th
A construction support vessel (CSV) owned by Norway’s shipping player Rem Offshore has begun working for Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor following an extensive rebuild and mobilization project. In pursuit of more sustainable operations, efficiency enhancements, and cost savings, Rem Offsh
