Brazil’s Oceanica Engenharia e Consultoria has taken delivery of two work-class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) from Forum Energy Technologies (FET) to support inspection, repair, and maintenance (IRM) activities at Petrobras’ oil fields. FET manufactured the systems at its UK facility at Kirkbymo
Shearwater GeoServices has launched a new node that is said to expand the potential ocean bottom seismic market due to its time and cost efficiency. The Pearl node is of small size and low weight which allows wider and denser spreads reducing operational time by a third compared with current deploym
Cyprus-headquartered seismic firm SeaBird Exploration has won a contract to deliver ocean bottom node (OBN) source services in the Western hemisphere. The contract execution is planned to commence in the second half of August. The duration of the contract is expected to be around 14 months including
SSE Renewables is set to mobilize the second phase of the geotechnical survey campaign at its Berwick Bank Wind Farm and the export cable route area between 15 and 20 June. The survey work is being undertaken by GEO and will be conducted from the 90-meter long Northern Ocean. The scope of work withi
DeepOcean has reported a revenue of $499.4 million for 2021, an increase of 42% from the $352.5 million in 2020, said to be driven by structural changes that the company undertook to strengthen and drive its diversification strategy. DeepOcean secured an order intake of $542 million in 2021 and had
Fugro has started geotechnical site drilling in the southern portion of the OCS-A-0534 lease area offshore Massachusetts, owned by Avangrid, a US arm of the Spanish energy giant Iberdrola. The company, using the vessel M/V Regulus, will be performing the work from 3 June until 31 August 2022, accord
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) plans to publish a call for tenders for geotechnical investigations at IJmuiden Ver V and VI offshore wind sites around the end of June 2022. Together with the two sites, the agreement with a successful tenderer will also include two other investigation areas,
N-Sea has commenced geophysical, (limited) UXO and environmental surveys within the area of the White Cross floating offshore wind project in the Celtic Sea. The activities, which began on 29 May, will see the company survey the offshore wind farm location and the project’s export cable route corrid
Norway-based DeepOcean has been awarded a contract to provide subsea services to Vineyard Wind 1, the first utility-scale offshore wind project in the US. Under the contract, DeepOcean will provide a range of subsea services including project management, engineering, ROV, tooling, and survey activit
Marine robotics technology specialist Greensea Systems has launched Bayonet Ocean Vehicles, a new company created to develop, manufacture, and distribute a line of amphibious robots recently acquired from C-2 Innovations. The deal includes the acquisition of the IP and inventory of C-2 Innovations’
Rovco has signed a charter party agreement with Glomar Offshore for the DP2 multipurpose support vessel Glomar Worker. The 60-meter long vessel will be put to work on Rovco’s subsea survey campaigns for “major” operational offshore wind farms in UK waters. Rovco will mobilize a dedicated team on the
Clinton Marine Survey, on behalf of wpd offshore GmbH, has completed a comprehensive geophysical survey at the planned site of the Eystrasalt offshore wind farm in Sweden. The study was conducted over the past six months by the vessel, Northern Storm, which wpd says emitted 1,723 tonnes less of CO2
Legasea has completed a subsea circular economy project, which saw the disassembly of ten decommissioned subsea production systems recovered from the Celtic Sea, that is said to have reduced the carbon emissions of subsea decommissioning operations. The Shore-to-Store service has reduced the carbon
U.S.-based CSA Ocean Sciences has completed an Environmental Assessment Program (EAP) for a “major” offshore energy operator in Block 58 located some 115 kilometers offshore north Suriname. The EAP included an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for a 3D seismic survey proposed in the
