Seaway Heavy Lifting, a specialist offshore contractor and operator of two heavy lift vessels ‘Stanislav Yudin’ and ‘Oleg Strashnov’, has renamed the vessels to ‘Seaway Yudin’ and ‘Seaway Strashnov’. The Seaway Yudin is a crane vessel equipped with a 2,500 tonnes revolving crane, a 500 tonnes auxili
Prysmian Group has received new contracts worth around €50 million by Gtd Teleductos, a Chilean telecom operator, to develop a turnkey repeater-less submarine cable system connecting Arica to Puerto Montt in Chile. The contracts have been secured through the submarine telecom division NSW, which bec
Neptune Energy has submitted Plans for Development and Operation (PDOs) to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for the Duva and Gjøa P1 projects in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The fields will be developed as subsea tie-backs connecting two templates to the nearby Gjøa platform, operated
Subsea services provider N-Sea has been awarded two contracts with undisclosed clients. Managed and supported by N-Sea’s Aberdeen base, the first is a three-year contract, awarded by an international operator. The work scope will take place across a number of the operator’s UK North Sea assets and i
AML Oceanographic has supplied a Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP) for the new Swedish research vessel ‘RV Svea’. The newbuild vessel, owned by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), will be used by the university and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) for a vari
DEME Group has integrated activities of its subsidiaries GeoSea, Tideway, A2Sea and EverSea into the DEME Offshore activity line. By integrating all of the offshore activities, expertise and capabilities into one organisation, DEME will be able to fulfil the future requirements of its customers, the
TechnipFMC has reported fourth-quarter 2018 loss of $2.26 billion or $5 per diluted share. The UK-based energy services giant booked total quarterly after-tax charges and credits of $2,22 billion, or $4.91 per diluted share. Major part of these charges included asset impairments (of close to $1.7 bi
Shearwater GeoServices and TGS have partnered to conduct a major exploration survey in Brazil. The project will be executed by Shearwater’s Amazon Warrior vessel using proprietary Q technology starting in Q1 2019. “Shearwater and TGS have a long-established relationship and we are very pleased to de
Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) has acquired a 62.5% stake in the Horizon Group (Horizon), a provider of marine geophysical surveys and geotechnical services from United Arab Emirates. The remaining 37.5% of the shares are held by the incumbent management. Peter Berdowski, CEO Boskalis, said:
Oceaneering International has received a two-year integrity management contract from Total E&P Denmark (Total) to support its Tyra Redevelopment project in the Danish North Sea. Oceaneering’s scope includes the full development of Tyra’s integrity management program, developing risk-based assessment
Greenlink Interconnector has been awarded a €3.6-million funding by the European Commission to finance the development of the project. Greenlink was selected for a grant in the field of trans-European energy infrastructure under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Energy). Simon Ludlam, Project Dire
NEC Corporation has secured a contract by Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company to design, engineer, supply, install, test and implement an optical submarine cable system connecting Okinawa Prefecture and Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan. NEC provided optical submarine cable system is scheduled to start o
Forum Energy Technologies has promoted John C. Ivascu to serve as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, effective February 15, 2019. In addition, James L. McCulloch, Forum’s general counsel since 2010, has transitioned to serve as chief compliance officer and as an advisor to the chi
Benthic and Asian Geos has completed its geotechnical investigation in the Limbayong Field, offshore East Malaysia for Petronas. Asian Geos was awarded a contract by Petronas for the provision of soil investigation services for Limbayong deepwater development. Benthic’s Portable Remotely Operated Dr
