Nexans has been tasked to carry out subsea cable repair on the electricity transmission link between Finland and Estonia that was damaged at the end of December 2024, with the activities set to begin in May and the link expected to start operating again in July. To remind, Finnish transmission syste
Thailand-headquartered subsea and offshore drilling services company Mermaid Maritime Public Company Limited has purchased four work-class remotely operated vehicles (WROVs) from Norway’s Argus Remote Systems. The company’s wholly owned subsidiary Mermaid Subsea Services (Thailand) (MSST) on Decembe
Keyfield International, a Malaysian provider of offshore accommodation vessels to the oil & gas industry, is making its way into the cable laying business with the acquisition of a 98-meter-long cable laying barge. Keyfield Ventures (Labuan) Limited (KVL), a newly incorporated 100%-owned subsidiary
Dutch Fugro has realigned its operations in the Americas by reducing its workforce and scaling back operations due to expected lower revenues caused by a pause in new offshore wind projects. In the financial update for the first quarter of 2025, Fugro stated that rapidly increased geopolitical and e
Offshore marine survey operations are scheduled to begin soon at what would be the UK’s fifth subsea electricity superhighway, connecting Scotland and England. Ireland-based XOCEAN is in charge of carrying out the marine survey works for the Eastern Green Link 5 (EGL5) project using seven remotely o
The Offshore TSO Collaboration (OTC), an initiative established in 2022 that gathers transmission system operators (TSOs) from the European Northern Seas, says that a unified and efficient offshore grid development strategy is needed for the North Sea to maximize benefits for Europe’s energy securit
Adira Renewables, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore’s offshore services provider Kim Heng and Soiltech Engineering Co Ltd Korea (STE), has launched a geotechnical survey vessel, rebuilt/converted in 2024, into the water. Kim Heng announced today, April 15, the completion of the christening ce
Texas-headquartered Perma-Pipe International has secured several projects in the Americas and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region that have a combined value of over $27 million. Perma-Pipe said that the projects would use its anti-corrosion coating capabilities and the XTRU-THERM insulati
Lithuania, Latvia and Germany are planning to jointly develop a hybrid offshore electricity interconnector between the two Baltic States and Germany, which would be 600 kilometers long and with a capacity of 2 GW. Lithuanian transmission system operator (TSO) Litgrid and its Latvian and German count
Chinese power cable manufacturer Orient Cable has been awarded two new export cable contracts in its home country, one of which involves the supply of a 500 kV line for what the company says is the longest offshore distance in China’s offshore wind so far. On April 14, Orient Cable (NBO) said that,
Italian cabling giant Prysmian Group has awarded compatriot Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) with a contract for potential unexploded ordnance (pUXO) identification and clearance along the route of NeuConnect, a high-voltage submarine cable that will create the first direct energy transmission link betwe
Navantia UK has cut the first steel at its recently-purchased Arnish facility for subsea structures destined for Shell’s project offshore Trinidad and Tobago, earlier than planned. It was reported in February that Navantia UK had won a contract with McDermott Trinidad Ltd. for the delivery of subsea
BW Energy has taken a final investment decision (FID) for a project that aims to up the oil production ante at its field in the Espírito Santo Basin off the coast of Brazil.
Prysmian has completed the installation and HV testing of the export subsea cables that connect the Sofia offshore wind farm to the UK mainland. The 1.4 GW offshore wind farm comprises more than 440 kilometers of ±320 kV offshore export cables with XLPE insulation, manufactured in Prysmian’s Pikkala
