Global Marine’s division Global Offshore will soon begin work for offshore wind power developer and operator Vattenfall. The contract will see Global Offshore completing the inter-array cable installation, burial, testing and termination at the 72 turbine Danish Kriegers Flak site, located in the Ba
Dutch investment company MeeMaken has acquired a majority stake in Blue Offshore – solutions provider for subsea cable installations . The minority of the company’s shares remain in hands of Blue Offshore’s management. Blue Offshore director Evert-Jan van Wijk, said: “So far, we have been able to de
EOM Offshore has acquired the assets and operations of the New Jersey-based marine monitoring and survey specialist Ocean Tech Services. Ocean Tech Services should increase EOM Offshore’s capabilities by providing metocean data collection solutions, subsea remote sensing, and offshore logistics. “Wi
Oil services company Archer said on Friday that its CEO John Lechner has resigned from his position, effective immediately. He will remain as a senior advisor to the Archer leadership team during the transition period until a new CEO is appointed. During the interim period, Archer Chairman Kjell-Eri
PDi, the Aberdeen-based subsea engineering and project management specialists and a part of Tattva Group Company, has announced expansion plans following £2m of new orders since the start of the year. The company has recently added concept and front-end engineering to its subsea capability. The new
Oil and gas development company i3 has contracted Gardline to conduct a site survey for its 2019 and 2020 drilling program plus the pipeline route for its Liberator Phase I development. Works have begun and are expected to complete during the month of March and are being conducted by the Ocean Obser
MacArtney has provided active heave compensated MERMAC winch solution to Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) for planned subsea offshore operations. MacArtney’s MERMAC R40 AHC winch will facilitate the laying of seismic cables on the seabed of the Johan Castberg oil field in the Barents Sea for Equinor
McDermott has won a contract from an undisclosed client in the Middle East for engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) services in the Arabian Gulf. The contract for new facilities includes the full suite of EPCI services for six new offshore jackets as well as three associate
A scientific study describes for the first time the submarine cartography of a high-latitude system in the IBIS channel, which covers tens of kilometres in the northern western area of the Barents Sea, in the Arctic Ocean. This channel is one of the few submarine valleys in polar latitudes that kept
UK firm James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS) has been awarded a contract by innogy to begin offshore site preparations for Triton Knoll offshore wind farm. The contract coincides with JFMS’s expansion into new facilities at Grimsby. Julian Garnsey, project director for Triton Knoll and innogy, said:
SeaPlanner has been selected to support the construction of Formosa 1 offshore wind farm phase 2, as part of the SeaRoc’s strategic partnership with Specialist Marine Consultants (SMC) who are contracted for delivery of marine coordination services for the 120MW project. SMC will be responsible for
Total Marine Technology (TMT) has recently deployed its Hot Tap Tool (HTT), as part of an abandonment project, offshore North Western Australia in collaboration with Sapura Energy. They were used subsea to create orifices in flowlines and to flush the flowline systems. These Australian-made tools we
A new £2 million joint UK-China offshore wind research centre has opened on Thursday in Yantai City. The TUS-ORE Catapult Research Centre (TORC) will act as a renewable energy technology research and development centre with links into both the UK and China to support the growth of their respective o
Teledyne CARIS will be delivering a full software solution to the South African Navy Hydrographic Office. The solution, provided through Teledyne CARIS’ official distributor Unique Group, includes software that will be implemented as part of a larger project to be executed by Southern African Shipya
