Shearwater GeoServices has secured a contract for a 4D seismic survey at the Troll Unit by Equinor, to be conducted this summer. The Troll Unit survey will last for approximately two months, the company informed. The survey will be conducted by the Amazon Conqueror using Shearwater’s Isometrix syste
Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) has completed the first QTrencher 500 compact trenching system developed for submarine cable installation and maintenance specialists, SubCom. The new QTrencher 500 provides additional 100HP versus its QT400 predecessor. The system has a trenching capability to a depth of
Jan De Nul has been awarded a framework deal by TenneT for repairs of offshore high-voltage cables in the German Bight. The scope entails repairs of all TenneT’s existing HVAC cable systems connecting individual wind farms to the offshore convertor stations or directly to the onshore grid, as well a
Frontera Offshore is due to begin Amoca-Mitzon cable lay scope offshore Mexico for Sapura Energy in April of 2019. To remind, earlier this month Frontera, in cooperation with Maritime Developments Ltd. (MDL), announced a cable lay scope won from Sapura Energy for Eni Amoca Miztón project offshore Me
Damen Shipyards Den Helder (DSDH) and the Netherlands’ Defense Material Organization (DMO) procurement agency have signed a contract for the design, build and delivery of a prototype Expeditionary Survey Boat (ESB). The craft will be optimized for rapid environmental assessments and hydrographic sur
US-based companies Berger Geosciences and Integral Consulting have partnered with French company Akrocean to deliver a full range of solutions for site characterization for the US offshore renewable energy market. The consortium has a single flag named BIA Offshore Studies and gathers expertise and
Kraken Robotics Systems has been awarded a contract valued at $1 million with the Government of Canada for the ThunderFish 300 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). Kraken expects to deliver the ThunderFish 300 to its test partner, Defense Research and Development Canada (DRDC), in Halifax in Q2 2019
GC Rieber has negotiated agreements for early redelivery of the polar research and subsea support vessel ‘Ernest Shackleton’ from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and sale of the vessel to an international buyer. The sale is conditional upon certain regulatory approvals, the company said. If concluded
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has received a letter of intent for a fully pre-funded multi-client survey in the Norwegian Barents Sea. The total value of the letter of intent is approximately USD 2.5 million. The company will mobilize the vessel Atlantic Guardian to carry out the survey. The ac
TechnipFMC has been awarded a large integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Transportation and Installation (iEPCI) contract by Eni for the Merakes project, located offshore Balikpapan Indonesia. TechnipFMC defines a large contract as being between $500 million and $1 billion. This contra
Polarcus said that Sovcomflot (SCF) has exercised its option for the redelivery of Vyacheslav Tikhonov, originally named Polarcus Selma. M/V Vyacheslav Tikhonov is a high ice class 8-streamer vessel built to the Ulstein SX133 design and incorporating the Ulstein X-BOW hull. The vessel has been on ba
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (March 18 – March 24). This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Subseaworldnews. Technipfmc Lands Subsea Deal For Johan Sverdrup Development https://subseaw
Oilfield services company Expro has made appointments of two key executive management roles. Current executive vice president, Alistair Geddes, has been promoted to chief operating officer (COO) with immediate effect. Geddes has been with Expro for six years, having previously fulfilled leadership r
OceansAdvance has elected new members to the board of directors during its Annual General Meeting held on Thursday. The new members of the OceansAdvance board are Paul Brett from the Marine Institute, Bill Donovan from Kraken Robotic Systems, Mike Maguire from Canadian Association of Petroleum Produ
