Subsea
Decom North Sea Gets Decommissioning Challenge Fund Grant
Decom North Sea has secured a Decommissioning Challenge Fund (DCF) grant award from the Scottish Government. The £5 million fund aims to provide opportunities for the supply chain in Scotland supporting the acceleration of projects to develop investment grade business cases, and to fund new structur
Export Cable Completion for Hornsea One
Export cable installation at Hornsea One offshore wind farm has been completed months ahead of schedule, Ørsted said on Tuesday. With offshore export cables totaling 467 kilometers, around the same distance as London to Newcastle, plus an onshore cable route of 38 kilometers connecting each of the t
UTEC Gets McDermott Contract for Work Off India
UTEC, a part of Acteon, has been awarded a subcontract by McDermott International for a series of survey work scopes offshore eastern India. UTEC will provide surface and subsea positioning services during the installation of subsea flowlines, pipeline end manifolds and terminations, jumpers, risers
DeltaTek Adds New Team Member
DeltaTek Global has appointed Chris Johnstone as operations supervisor. Chris will be focusing on managing wellsite operations offshore and helping to design and develop new technologies. He will also be responsible for implementing an equipment maintenance system and subsequent procedures. Prior to
Archer Knight Adds Scrimgeour to Its Board
Aberdeen-based market intelligence and subsea consultancy, Archer Knight, has said that John Scrimgeour will join its board as non-executive chairman. Scrimgeour has held numerous senior leadership positions throughout his career, including regional manager North West Europe for Suncor and general m
Eni Starts Vandumbu Field in Angola
Eni has started production from the Vandumbu field through West Hub N’Goma FPSO in Block 15/06, approximately 350 km North West of Luanda and 130 km West of Soyo, Angola. First oil from the Vandumbu field was achieved in late November 2018. This, along with the start-up of a Subsea Multiphase Boosti
ADVA Trial Achieves 300G Over Trans-Atlantic Fiber Link
ADVA said that its FSP 3000 CloudConnect TeraFlex has succeeded in transporting 300Gbit/s of data per wavelength over a 6,800-kilometer fiber link. Conducted alongside ADVA’s partner Acacia Communications, the trial was the first in the industry to cover the trans-Atlantic distance with a fiber link
Spectrum Begins Potiguar Basin Seismic Off Brazil
Spectrum has started a 3D seismic survey in the Potiguar basin offshore the Equatorial Margins of Brazil. The survey comprises 10,700 square km covering blocks that were recently awarded in the 15th license round and open acreage blocks scheduled for the 17th Round in 2020. The survey is being acqui
Shearwater in New Contract Wins
Shearwater GeoServices has secured several projects equivalent to eight vessel months in the Arabian Sea. The first seismic survey is awarded by Eni Oman in partnership with Oman Oil Company Exploration and Production in Block 52, offshore Oman. The survey, due to start later this year, will be cond
Point Resources and Eni Norge Finalize Merger
Point Resources and Eni Norge have concluded the merger between the two companies, after receiving appropriate approvals. The two companies have joined forces to create Vår Energi, with a new organisation of about 800 employees. Vår Energi is an independent exploration and production (E&P) company,
Neptune Energy Wraps Up Integration with Former VNG Norge
Neptune Energy has completed the integration with the former VNG Norge business. The integrated business, ‘Neptune Energy Norge’, will become the operator of the Fenja field development project in the Norwegian Sea, the company informed. As of December 04, 2018 the merger between Neptune Energy Norg
Rovco Gets Further Funding for Live 3D Visualization Project
Rovco has been awarded further funding by Innovate UK to develop the next stage of its integrated live 3D vision and artificial intelligence (AI) survey technology. This brings the combined total in technology grants for the UK subsea services company to £1.46 million. The next stage, AUV3D Phase 2
GCE Subsea Changes Name
Norwegian industry initiative GCE Subsea has decided to change its name to GCE Ocean Technology, effective February 1, 2019. The issue of a name change has been up for discussion on several occasions as the cluster is exploring further markets beyond the traditional oil and gas sector. The new name
Minesto Gets Additional €1M Boost from InnoEnergy
European powerhouse and investor in clean energy InnoEnergy has awarded an additional €1 million to the commercialisation of Minesto’s marine energy technology. This makes the Swedish marine energy developer InnoEnergy’s largest investment in ocean energy. Including the latest €1 million injection,