UK’s Xlinks has awarded Intertek with a contract to provide quality assurance and technical advice on marine cable routing, survey specification and procurement for the planned interconnector between Morocco and the UK. Intertek will work with Xlinks to review cable routing, draft survey and technic
Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT has issued a contract notice for framework agreements to provide geophysical and geotechnical surveys for offshore platforms and cable routes. TenneT TSO B.V. is appointed by the Dutch government as the offshore grid operator and is responsible for en
McDermott International has completed a subsea campaign at the Bayu-Undan infill well Phase 3C project in the Timor Sea under its first subsea engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract with Santos. McDermott’s scope included a tieback of a single in-field well to existi
James Fisher has signed a seasonal charter agreement for Go Marine Group’s multi-purpose service vessel (MPSV) Go Electra, following, as the company describes, an extensive vessel research and evaluation process. The agreement will see the vessel used throughout the remainder of 2022 by James Fisher
Reach Subsea has been awarded a contract for an offshore wind farm located in the North Sea, under which the Norwegian subsea services provider will deploy the vessel Olympic Challenger. The inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) and light construction subsea vessel, which has been on a charter wi
UK’s Spirit Energy Production has awarded DeepOcean and Heerema Marine Contractors with contracts for removal and disposal services of its North Sea decommissioning portfolio. Following the submission of a joint tender, both companies won contracts that will be executed under a tripartite collaborat
Legasea has secured funding from Scottish Enterprise for a project that aims to reduce the carbon footprint of subsea decommissioning operations by taking equipment that is no longer required and finding ways to refurbish, recertify, remanufacture and reuse it, keeping in use as many components as p
Norwegian shipping company Siem Offshore and offshore energy services provider Helix Energy Solutions Group have entered into an agreement for the well intervention vessels Siem Helix 1 and Siem Helix 2.
ESB has applied for a foreshore licence for site investigation works in an area offshore Ireland where it plans to build a wind farm with an installed capacity of between 700 MW and 800 MW. The site is located to the south of County Waterford and to the southeast of County Cork. There, ESB plans [&h
EODEX and PanGeo Subsea, a Kraken Robotics company, have set up a partnership to collaborate on unexploded ordinance (UXO) detection and disposal services. The two parties joined forces on several UXO survey projects over the past year and, as they state, this recent more-defined collaboration suppo
TerraSond, Acteon’s geo-services provider, has been confirmed as a preferred supplier for the subsea balance of plant inspection and survey services for the Vineyard Wind 1, said to be the first major commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S. waters.
Offshore wind pioneer Venterra Group has acquired Ordtek, the UK-based provider of unexploded ordnance (UXO) risk management consultancy. Led by Lee Gooderham, Ordtek will form part of Venterra’s early stage “engineer” services led by the existing member, geoscience design company Gavin & Doherty Ge
Norwegian offshore vessel owner Eidesvik Offshore has won a contract by PXGEO UK for Subsea Viking under the master time charter agreement. The contract will commence ultimo April in direct continuation of the existing standby contract. The firm period is for 100 days with options for extensions. In
Shearwater GeoServices has won a contract with Lundin Energy Norway to deliver a 4D ocean bottom seismic (OBS) survey at the Edvard Grieg field. The SW Cook and SW Tasman will conduct the one-and-a-half-month project (3 vessel months) in the North Sea during the 2022 summer season using its Qseabed
