Norway’s energy data and intelligence company TGS has secured an extension to a multi-year ocean bottom node (OBN) acquisition contract in the Gulf of America. The contract has been extended for an additional three-year duration, with a “major producer in the Gulf of America”, TGS said. Kristian Joh
U.S.-based Pacifico Energy has received a site survey license for a 500 MW offshore wind project in Ba Ria–Vung Tau, offshore Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The license, granted by Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (MAE), allows the company to carry out site survey assessment activities
Norwegian energy data and intelligence company TGS has signed a strategic agreement with the Republic of Equatorial Guinea for the acquisition, processing, reprocessing and promotion of seismic and geophysical data across the country’s offshore basins. TGS announced on April 16 that it will deliver
Dutch Fugro has opened a new remotely operated vehicle (ROV) test pool in Singapore, which will help its teams identify and resolve technical issues early, validate performance against design requirements, and optimize procedures before mobilization. According to Fugro, the facility provides a contr
Aberdeen-headquartered Mermaid Subsea Services (UK) has further extended its contract with the subsea support vessel Island Valiant, which it has used for North Sea operations for the last three years. Mermaid Subsea Services began using the 93.4-meter-long vessel in 2024 for well plug & abandonment
DeepOcean has performed an inspection and 3D scanning of subsea infrastructure in a single operation rather than as two separate ones as typically done, at an offshore field in Senegal operated by Woodside Energy. DeepOcean has completed a full-field baseline subsea survey and a full 3D scan simulta
Norway’s AF Gruppen is acquiring Aberdeen-headquartered Claxton, a provider of technology-driven services and engineering primarily within offshore decommissioning, from the UK-headquartered Acteon Group for an agreed enterprise value of £63.5 million (around €72.8 million). The transaction comprise
Japan’s Toyo Engineering Corporation and OneSubsea, a joint venture established in 2023 by SLB, Aker Solutions, and Subsea7, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore collaboration opportunities in carbon capture and storage (CCS). Initially, the partners plan to explore opportuniti
Norwegian energy data and intelligence company TGS has won another contract to deploy its seismic vessel Ramform Vanguard for an offshore wind site characterization campaign in Europe. Under the contract that has a duration of approximately one and a half months, Ramform Vanguard will commence data
Terna, Italy’s national grid operator, has awarded Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) with a contract valued at over €28 million for preliminary marine survey and environmental characterization services for a new high-voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnector that will link Lazio and Lombardy. NextGeo w
Geoquip Marine Operations and GEO Denmark are set to start a geotechnical investigation campaign at the Bowdun offshore wind farm site in Scotland, developed by Thistle Wind Partners. Two vessels, Geoquip Seehorn and Geo Connector, will be used to perform the surveys, with the work expected to comme
Boskalis has marked a milestone from its Remote Operations Center (ROC) in Aberdeen, Scotland, with the first deployment of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) from the new facility. During the test phase, ROVs underwent a week of intensive trials from Boskalis’ construction support vessel (CSV) BOKA
A construction support vessel (CSV) owned by Solstad Maritime (SOMA) has secured a two-year contract extension worth approximately $56 million with Brazilian oil & gas company Petrobras. As part of the extended contract, the CSV Normand Fortress will provide accommodation services to support product
DeepOcean has signed an agreement with Boskalis for the charter of a subsea vessel the Dutch company recently purchased from Norwegian vessel operator Sea1 Offshore. Boka Spearfish, to be renamed from Sea1 Spearfish, will join DeepOcean’s fleet of advanced subsea vessels for the remainder of 2026, w
