Subsea
Premier Pushes First Oil from Solan to January
Premier Oil informed that it will have to put off the start‑up of first oil at its Solan field, located in the UK sector of the North Sea, due to unfavorable weather conditions during preparations. Since its last update, the company has made progress on the commissioning of the offshore installation
OSBIT Power’s Access Systems for Helix’s Well Intervention Vessels
OSBIT Power has completed work on three new walk-to-work access systems to be installed on a trio of new well intervention vessels commissioned by Helix Well Ops U.K. The completion of the access systems is the first significant milestone in the triple Intervention Tension Frame (ITF) contract award
Bisso Marine Boosts Pipelay Capacity
Houston-based Bisso Marine has acquired offshore pipelay ‘industry’s stalwart’ derrick/pipelay barge GLOBAL IROQUOIS. The 122m x 30.5m x 9m laybarge has performed pipelay operations worldwide and will be renamed BISSO IROQUOIS. During the last decade, the barge has been reconfigured and received sig
ACS Provides Sediment Samples Testing for WaveSub Project
Marine Power Systems (MPS), a Swansea-based wave energy developer, has enlisted the services of ACS Testing, to provide the testing of sediment samples from the deployment site, to inform the final anchoring specification for the WaveSub. MPS is developing the WaveSub device, which is due for deploy
Hydrex Patches Up Rudder in Rotterdam
Antwerp-based underwater repair and maintenance specialist, Hydrex, has carried out a rudder repair on a 170-meter container vessel during the ship’s scheduled maintenance stop in Rotterdam. Hidrex divers team, with one of its dive support workboats, installed a doubler plate over the cavitated area
Fugro Finalizes Gemini Export Cables Burial
Fugro recently completed the burial of export cables at the Gemini offshore wind park, off the Netherlands coast. Fugro was awarded a contract by Van Oord in April and mobilised one of its two Q1400 trenching spreads onto the Van Oord support vessel Jan Steen to execute the export cable burial works
Subsea UK Appoints New Members to Its Board
Subsea UK has unveiled its new Board, following a members’ ballot at the industry body’s Annual General Meeting. Subsea UK informed that two new Board members were appointed and seven members re-elected. Cameron Mitchell, technical disciplines assurance manager for Shell UK, and Mark Richardson, pro
DCN Wraps Up Grouting Hoses Removal at Gode Wind 1&2 OWF
Bergen op Zoom-based DCN International Diving and Marine Contractors has successfully removed all grouting hoses at the OWF Gode Wind 1&2. According to the company, a total of 97 locations have been visited to remove the 5,5 grouting hoses, which were cut and removed with in-house developed tools, m
Oceaneering Orders Sparrows Under-Rollers
Sparrows Group, and its cable and pipe-lay solutions (CPLS) division, has been awarded a contract by Oceaneering to design and manufacture two 500-tonne powered and jack-able under-rollers. According to the company, the new under-roller system is suitable for use with reels of up to 11.4m outer diam
EuroAsia InterConnector Moves Step Closer
The EuroAsia InterConnector project has moved a step closer with new studies awarded to Italian CESI S.p.A. and GAS S.r.l, during a ceremony held at the European Parliament Office in Cyprus. As Cyprus Mail reports, the studies are for the technical design, the reconnaissance study for the optimum ro
Normand Vision Takes On Its First Renewables Job
Ocean Installer has been awarded an offshore wind contract with Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH. “We are very pleased that we are able to secure a very interesting project within the offshore renewables wind market and demonstrate our capabilities on such a project,” says Steinar Riise, CEO Ocean In
Lundin Hits Rolvsnes Oil Off Norway
Lundin Petroleum has completed the Rolvsnes exploration well 16/1-25 S as an oil discovery. The well is located in PL338C south of the Edvard Grieg field in the central North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The well encountered a gross oil column of 30 metres in porous granitic
PHOTO: Maersk Connector on Sea Trials
The Damen-built subsea support vessel Maersk Connector has been on sea trials in the Black Sea since last Monday. The vessel is owned and operated by Maersk Supply Service (MSS) and is built to contract for a seven-year charter agreement with DeepOcean. It was launched in July at Damen Shipyards Gal
Update: Rem Offshore Sells Subsea Vessel to Maersk Supply Service
Rem Offshore has entered into an agreement to sell multi purpose subsea construction vessel (MPSCV) “Rem Forza” to Maersk Supply Service. The MPSCV Rem Forza, of MT 6022 design, was built by Kleven Verft in 2008. The vessel has a length of 107.6 meters, a breadth of 22 meters and it can accommodate