Subsea
Fugro’s ROV Training Camp Delivers Its First Female Pilot
Fugro’s ROV training camp has seen its first female trainee graduate at the top of her class after a hands-on 4-week course. Magdalena Gos, who graduated at the Polish Naval Academy, worked on a naval vessel and then moved to the merchant fleet, where she gained eight years experience in marine and
Ithaca Secures Norpipe Pipeline Access for GSA Project
Ithaca Energy informed that the access has been secured to the Norpipe oil pipeline system, allowing oil exports from the Greater Stella Area (GSA) to transfer from tanker export to pipeline export during 2017. The key work associated with creating a connection to the system has been executed as par
Hydrographic Academy Students Survey Plymouth Sound
Teledyne Reson joined students of The Hydrographic Academy at Plymouth University in their marine station on the historic waterside for a week to train them on the SeaBat T50-P multibeam echosounder and Teledyne PDS software. This is part of the postgraduate diploma in hydrography course where stude
Ofgem Greenlights Norway-UK Subsea Link
Ofgem has granted a licence for the Northconnect electricity interconnector between Great Britain (Peterhead Substation, Boddam, Aberdeenshire) and Norway (Sima Substation, Eidfjord). The NorthConnect is a proposed 650-kilometre 1,400 MW HVDC interconnector over the floor of the North Sea. Joint ven
Hydroid Adds New Subsea Hyperbaric Testing System
Hydroid, a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime, announced the installation of a new subsea hyperbaric testing system (HTS) at its manufacturing facility in Pocasset, Massachusetts. The testing system simulates hydrostatic pressures found at depths up to 6,000 meters and will be used to test Hydroid’s a
Rolls-Royce in SalMar’s Offshore Fish Farm Project
Rolls-Royce has signed a contract for the construction and delivery of an eight point mooring system to the offshore fish farm installation being developed for Ocean Farming AS, a subsidiary of the SalMar Group in Norway. The equipment will be used to secure the installation to the seabed at Frohave
IMCA’s Council Makes Two New Appointments
Two new representatives from the International Marine Contractors Association’s (IMCA) global contractors have been appointed to IMCA’s council. The first representative is Harke Jan Meek, chief commercial officer at Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC). Harke is a member of the HMC board and responsibl
Subsea UK Sets Up Norfolk Networking Event
Industry body, Subsea UK, is to bring subsea supply chain companies in Great Yarmouth together in the first networking event of its kind in Norfolk region on June 29, 2016. The event will focus on underwater activity in the oil and gas, defence, oceanology and marine renewables industries and will a
Reach Subsea Secures More Work for Normand Reach
Norwegian offshore player Reach Subsea said it has won contracts for the construction and ROV support vessel Normand Reach. According to the company, the deals are covering approximately half of the remaining committed period of the vessel for 2016. The terms of the contract have remained confidenti
Fugro Bags New Trenching Contracts in North Sea
Fugro has secured three contracts for its Q1400 trenching systems to be deployed in the North Sea over the next 12 months for oil and gas clients. At the Wintershall-owned Maria development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, Fugro will deploy the Q1400 trenching system under a contract with S
Huawei Marine, Rostelecom Begin SFOTL Construction
Huawei Marine and Rostelecom have started the construction of submarine fiber optical telecommunication line (SFOTL) connecting Kamchatka and Sakhalin. The construction of this 900km submarine cable constitutes the second phase of the Far East cable system that connects the regions of Kamchatka-Sakh
WATCH: Subsea Salmon Farming with Atlantis Concept
Earlier this year, Norwegian company AKVA group teamed up with Sinkaberg-Hansen and Egersund Nethas to establish Atlantis Subsea Farming to develop submersible fish-farming facilities for salmon on an industrial scale. Atlantis Subsea Farming has applied for six development licences to enable large-
Subsea 7 Extends with Xait
Seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services contractor Subsea 7 has signed a three-year contract with Xait. Xait is Norwegian company behind the software XaitPorter. XaitPorter is a cloud based software that enables several contributors to work on the same document at the same time. “Su
AgileTek Wraps Up Walney Extension Subsea Power Cable Study
London based AgileTek has completed a multi-phase study on subsea power cables for the Walney Extension offshore wind farm. The 660MW wind farm is located in the Irish Sea, around 19 km west of the Walney Island coast in Cumbria. Working directly with project developer DONG Energy, the study involve