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N-Sea Sees Positive Start of 2018 with New Contracts
N-Sea has secured multiple contracts during Q4 2017 and in early Q1 2018 with the value of around £40 million, providing a sound backlog for the coming season. The projects will include UK east coast wind farm work, interconnector cable projects and German Baltic scopes, the company informed. Gary T
Flowline Specialists Boosts Management Team
Scottish energy equipment manufacturer and service provider Flowline Specialists has recently expanded its senior management team with two appointments. The Oldmeldrum-based firm has appointed Mike Jaffray to the role of operations manager, while Donald Walker has taken up the position of QHSE manag
Scotland Could Benefit from Decommissioning, New Study Shows
A new study into decommissioning opportunities in the oil and gas sector has been published on Monday. Energy ports and supply chain companies across Scotland are expected to benefit from the study, Highlands and Island Enterprise (HIE) said. The study focuses primarily on oil and gas floating asset
Xodus Adds General Manager to Its First Office in Egypt
Xodus Group has appointed Salah Farid Tantawy as its first general manager in Egypt as the company opens its first office in the country. Salah Farid Tantawy joins Xodus from PICO Petroleum Integrated Services where he was most recently project general manager for the Amal-C platform installation in
Van Oord Selects WIND for Borkum Riffgrund II Cable Handling
Van Oord has signed up WIND to support the cable transfer in preparation for its 2018 cable installation campaign at the Borkum Riffgrund II offshore wind farm. The first stage of the contract will start in March 2018 in the port of Nordenham, Germany. This will consist of spooling 36 cable reels an
KW Designed Solutions Wins with Balmoral Subsea Test Centre
KW Designed Solutions has secured a further order from Balmoral Offshore Engineering for the design, manufacture, installation and commissioning of six manual chock closure pressure vessels. The vessels are rated with an operating pressure of 690 bar and with a bore size of Ø500mm x 2500mm depth. Tw
ISE Upgrades Explorer AUV
International Submarine Engineering (ISE) has completed the integration of a new underwater video/still photo subsystem payload to an Explorer AUV. This Explorer AUV was originally delivered to the client in 2017 and has performed survey operations with multi beam echo sounders and side scan sonars.
OGTC and ITF in Merger Deal, O’Brien to Step Down
The Oil & Gas Technology Centre and ITF – the Industry Technology Facilitator – have agreed to merge to focus and enhance the technology and innovation support for the UK oil and gas industry. Established as part of the Aberdeen City Region Deal in February 2017, the Oil & Gas Technology Centre has
TGS Gets CNH Nod for Mexico Well Data Delivery
TGS has obtained commercial authorization from the Mexican regulator, Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH), to process its entire library of more than 30,000 wells in Mexico. This award grants TGS the right to process and deliver well data products to companies exploring in offshore and onshore
Fugro Scoops Statoil Rig Positioning Deal
Fugro has won a long-term contract for the provision of rig positioning services to Statoil. The contract includes positioning of all the Statoil operated rigs on the Norwegian continental shelf together with the company’s associated vessels. Fugro’s specialised satellite positioning systems, utilis
Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (January 29 – February 04). https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/02/01/deepocean-charters-polar-onyx/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/01/31/nord-stream-2-gets-clearance-for-german-territorial-waters/ http
TE SubCom, SSCC to Build Cable Depot in Samoa
TE SubCom together with Samoa Submarine Cable Company (SSCC), plans to construct a new depot in Port of Apia, Samoa to service and maintain more than 19 cable systems in the South Pacific region. TE SubCom in June 2017 secured the South Pacific Marine Maintenance Agreement (SPMMA), a five-year servi
Maersk Supply Service Gets Its Third Stingray SSV
COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard has delivered the third Stingray-class subsea support vessel “Maersk Inventor” to offshore marine contractor Maersk Supply Service (MSS). The delivery follows the “Maersk Installer” and “Maersk Involver”, who were handed over in October and November last year. The two vessels
Prysmian to Build Isle of Capri-Sorrento Subsea Cable
Prysmian Group has secured a contract worth around €40 million for a new submarine cable connection between the isle of Capri and Sorrento (Naples). The contract has been awarded by Terna Rete Italia S.p.A., a company fully owned by Terna S.p.A., the Italian transmission system operator. The project