Subsea
Atlas Professionals Strengthens Its Survey Team
Atlas Professionals has appointed Paul Hampton as the company’s new survey business manager. Atlas believes that Hampton will bring experience, understanding and drive to its team, backed by his 15-years industry background, focusing on the offshore survey and construction sector, both in oil & gas
Lloyd’s Register Presents New Decommissioning Service
Lloyd’s Register said it has launched a new decommissioning service. Namely, the company said it is offering an integrated portfolio of late-life and decommissioning services to support operators, equity holders and regulators in key territories including the UKCS, Gulf of Mexico and across Asia in
Megaport Brings Elastic Interconnection to Aqua Comm’s AEConnect
Aqua Comm and Megaport (USA) announced a partnership whereby Megaport will access the Aqua Comms’ America-Europe Connect (AEConnect) subsea cable system, linking New York, Dublin and London, and enable elastic interconnection to its transatlantic subsea cable network. This partnership will allow ent
Subsea UK’s Event Aims to Cut Operational Costs
Innovative UK companies will be pitching their subsea technologies to a panel of operators and Tier 1 contractors including Apache, Bibby Offshore, Chevron, Nexen and Technip tomorrow, November 17, at Subsea UK’s second Springboard event. In partnership with the National Subsea Research Initiative (
Decom North Sea Elects New Board
Decom North Sea has elected eight new board directors and re-elected one director from across a range of sectors within the oil and gas industry during its seventh annual general meeting held in St Andrews. New directors have been named as: Simon Gibb, Kevin Illingworth, Dick Lagerweij, Donald Marti
Norfolk Marine Wraps Up Robin Rigg OWF Site Survey
Norfolk Marine’s vessel the Norfolk Swift has completed a full site bathymetric survey of Robin Rigg offshore wind farm. The contract was awarded to Norfolk Marine by E.on Climate & Renewables UK in early September 2016. The vessel was mobilised to site from Norfolk Marine’s Lowestoft yard by road t
DOF Subsea Back in Black
DOF Subsea, a subsidiary of DOF Group, reported profit for the third quarter 2016 (Q3 2016) of NOK 170 million ($20 million), compared with loss of NOK 312 million ($37 million) in the corresponding period in 2015. In the 3rd quarter 2016, the Bergen-based company had operating income of NOK 1.13 bi
Altus Grabs Maersk Oil Well Intervention Gig
Altus Intervention has won a fixed term, five-year contract to provide well intervention services for Maersk Oil. The company was awarded the contract for the provision of slickline services, coiled tubing services, well surveillance, ballistic and wireline tractor services to support Maersk Oil’s C
Iemants, Jan De Nul to Deliver Foundations for Kriegers Flak Substations
Iemants – Jan De Nul joint venture has been awarded an EPCI contract for two gravity based foundations (GBF) for Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm from Energinet.dk and 50Hertz Transmission GmbH. The Kriegers Flak is a 600 MW offshore wind farm located in the Danish Baltic Sea. Iemants and Jan De Nul
OGA Hands Out £1 for New UKCS Seismic Data Project
The Oil and Gas Authority UK (OGA) has awarded four new contracts worth approximately £1 million to Shearwater GeoServices, Geokinetics, DMT Petrologic and Quality Seismic to supply more than 10,000 kilometres of reprocessed proprietary 2D seismic data of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) as part of t
Oil & Gas UK Predicts Progress in Decommissioning
A new report by Oil & Gas UK forecasts a gradual but steady rise in offshore oil and gas decommissioning in the UK and Norway over the next ten years, with activity growing from a market worth over £2 billion in 2015. The report is the first survey of both the UK and Norwegian decommissioning [&hell
Ioseba Tena Switches from SeeByte to Sonardyne
Subsea technology company Sonardyne International UK, has appointed Ioseba (Joe) Tena as its new global business manager for Marine Robotic Systems. Tena joins Sonardyne with immediate effect, the company informed. Early in his career Tena worked with marine robots as a research associate at Heriot-
Impairments Sink Eidesvik
Norwegian vessel owner, Eidesvik Offshore, has posted quarterly loss as it recognised fleet impairment charge and its revenues plunged by some 35 percent in the weak market. In the third quarter 2016, Eidesvik generated revenues of NOK 201 million. Revenues in the corresponding period in 2015 were N
Island Offshore Starts Talks with Creditors
Island Offshore, acting through its general partner Amnor LLC, said it will be looking into financial restructuring options as it suffered from the general deterioration in the offshore service market. The Group said it has taken a number of measures to improve its financial situation but general ma